The new "apple" app iRadio close to launch - NEWSru.com

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Apple entered into a licensing agreement with the record company Warner Music Group, so that it is prepared in the near future to release a new application that will be called iRadio and become a serious competitor to the popular U.S. Internet radio Pandora, CNET reports with reference to the familiar with Sources situation.

The new product will be presented June 10 at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. It is assumed that the “apple” Internet Radio function will not be accessible for Pandora, like the ability to rewind the song. Buy your favorite tune can be the touch of a button.

Internet Radio Apple, is believed to be organized as part of radio stations in iTunes – the classification of tracks by genre. As previously reported sources at Apple, if now in iTunes just the catalog of existing Internet radio stations, you can use iRadio company itself will keep streaming.

As the The New York Times, Apple last summer conceived radioprilozhenie issue in which music flows are adapted to the taste of each user. The main problem in the way of the application for release to negotiations on price for the musical composition. As reported in April, Apple would pay Warner Music and Universal Music Group 6 cents per song, while competing services such as Pandora, pay 12.

Apple argued his desire to pay half the fact that the new service will not only work on computers and laptops Mac, but also on mobile devices running iOS and consoles, AppleTV, that means covering a greater audience and more revenue. In May, Apple has already reached an agreement with a major music label Universal Music, are ongoing negotiations with Sony.