{"id":65763,"date":"2014-04-30T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=65763"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:43:14","slug":"beats-music-teases-ipad-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/beats-music-teases-ipad-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Beats Music teases iPad app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beats Music <a title=\"Beats Music's First 100 Days: A Bumpy Start\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/biz\/articles\/news\/digital-and-mobile\/6062727\/beats-musics-first-100-days-a-bumpy-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hasn&#8217;t really taken off<\/a> since its launch in January of this year. Perhaps the upcoming Beats Music for iPad app will change that. It&#8217;s odd that an iPad version wasn&#8217;t available at launch, especially with stiff competition from <a title=\"Spotify for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/spotify-mobile-iphone.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a> and <a title=\"Rdio for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/rdio.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rdio<\/a> who both have iPad apps.<\/p>\n<p>Beats Music&#8217;s <a title=\"Beats Music: broken promises\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/beats-music-broken-promises\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paid-only<\/a> subscription model has had a tough time convincing users to leave Spotify, which offers <a title=\"Spotify offers unlimited web streaming ahead of Beats Music release\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/spotify-offers-unlimited-web-streaming-ahead-of-beats-music-release\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free streaming<\/a>. The company recently began allowing users to subscribe inside the iPhone app via in-app purchase. This gives Apple 30% of the profits but Beats is willing to do this for more subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a current Beats Music subscriber, you will be able to use the iPad app for free. For $9.99 per month or $119.88 per year, you get to use Beats Music on up to 3 devices. If you have multiple users, you can sign up for the family plan for $14.99 per month, which allows up to 5 users and 10 devices.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beatsmusic\/status\/461581251854741505\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beats Music (Twitter)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/spotifys-dark-redesign-now-available-on-android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify&#8217;s dark redesign now available on Android<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/do-you-have-a-free-spotify-account-heres-everything-you-can-do-with-the-iphone-app\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What can you do with a free Spotify account on iPhone?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/peer-to-peer-now-legal-in-spain\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Record labels lose landmark peer-to-peer judgment in Spain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beats Music hasn&#8217;t really taken off since its launch in January of this year. Perhaps the upcoming Beats Music for iPad app will change that. It&#8217;s odd that an iPad version wasn&#8217;t available at launch, especially with stiff competition from Spotify and Rdio who both have iPad apps. Beats Music&#8217;s paid-only subscription model has had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/beats-music-teases-ipad-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beats Music teases iPad app&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":65766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-65763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330839,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65763\/revisions\/330839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65763"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=65763"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=65763"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=65763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}