The news was on the air that Apple will be acquiring a music recognition app Shazam and recently Apple confirmed it.
Apple expressed, “We are thrilled that Shazam and its talented team will be joining Apple. Since the launch of the App Store“, Shazam has consistently ranked as one of the most popular apps for iOS. Today, it’s used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, across multiple platforms. Apple Music and Shazam are a natural fit, sharing a passion for music discovery and delivering great music experiences to our users. We have exciting plans in store, and we look forward to combining with Shazam upon approval of today’s agreement.”
Shazam’s statement was, “We are excited to announce that Shazam web app has entered into an agreement to become part of Apple“. Shazam is one of the highest rated apps in the world and loved by hundreds of millions of users and we can’t imagine a better home for Shazam to enable us to continue innovating and delivering magic for our users.”
People utilize Shazam web app to recognize the music they are listening. Shazam captures a music clip that is playing anywhere, anytime and matches it against its huge database to let know users what they are listening to. The app has over 1 billion downloads up till now.
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Shazam has built a little interesting partnership, particularly with Apple, Snapchat, and Spotify. With Shazam integration Snapchat allows users to “recognize music and send their artist and music findings as Snaps to their friends.”
Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, noticed a chance for Shazam to help make out its music business. Music has long been a priority for Apple right from the days of the iPod and lately, it’s been paying attention on enhancing its Apple Music.
Eddy Cue believes that Shazam could help perk up its offering and appreciated Shazams shift beyond music discovery, constructing music-related content and artist pages.
Conclusion
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