Rumor Control: Apple Planning Social Music Application?
August 11th, 2009 Posted in Industry News, Social Media
This is only a rumor at this time, but the Boy Genius report claims to have some developing details on Apple’s latest release of Itunes. It is believed that Apple’s latest release of their popular music download and management software will allow you to broadcast your favorite tunes to various social networks, which will not only spread Artist’s music, but the Itunes brand as well.
The informant to the Boy Genius Report claims that the app will do the following:
- The social networking integration that we reported iTunes 9 would have seems to be part of a bigger social networking push by Apple. We’ve been informed that Apple has plans to tie iTunes 9 into a “Social” application that they plan to release in the future. It was said that the application (separate from iTunes) will be similar to Yahoo’s OneConnect offering and consolidate all your social networking services. (iPhone application? Desktop app? Wasn’t clarified to us).
- The application will allow you to broadcast what music you’re currently listening to, allow you to share your music with people on your network, connect with your friend’s friends (no clue on that one), and update all of your statuses at the same time. ITunes 9 will let you broadcast music statuses as well.
- As far as the iTunes application organization feature, we’ve been told it allow you to sort your applications alphabetically, by genre, date added, and of course, custom arrangement.
Apple’s strong foothold in the smart phone market will surely help them in pushing this application to consumers. More details to come as the story develops.
