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Apple Music is coming to Amazon’s Echo devices [atualizado: chegou!]

Apple Music is coming to Amazon's Echo devices [atualizado: chegou!]

The HomePod may not be the most popular smart speaker in the world, but Apple has known how to work with the competition and will take advantage of the expanding market for Amazon’s Echo devices. Do you know how? Providing the Apple Music for these smart speakers, as disclosed by Amazon’s own blog.

With that, Apple Music subscribers will be able to take advantage of the entire music catalog of the service on Echo devices from the day December 17th – including support for Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa (on supported devices). That is, you can ask her to play your songs, albums, playlists and favorite radio stations similar to HomePod, with the Crab.

The arrival of Apple Music on Amazon devices is the result of a recent agreement between the two tech giants. Apple’s senior vice president of software and services, Eddy Cue, said to the USA Today that Apple engineers have been working on the novelty for about six months and said he always believed in the full Apple Music experience.

One of the things we always believe in with music – and that reminds us of iTunes days – is trying to make services as widely available as possible. We started making it available on Windows, and you remember when hell froze. We make it available on Sonos devices and Android devices. We love the ability of people who have [alto-falantes] Echo to listen and have the full Apple Music experience on your devices.

In addition to the streaming, that deal could mean that Amazon distributes more Apple products through its sales channel, although the company still don’t sell the smart speaker from Apple.

According to Amazon’s vice president of products and services, David Limp, the agreement with Apple is only part of more features for Echo devices.

We are committed to providing excellent music providers to our customers and, since the launch of the GeeMusic API for developers last month, we have expanded the music selection on Alexa to include even more first-rate services. We are happy to bring Apple Music – one of the most popular music services in the U.S. – to Echo customers this holiday season.

Amazon currently offers its own streaming of music, Amazon Music Unlimited; however, its expressiveness in this market is small when compared to the service of Apple or Spotify. Last May, Apple announced that Apple Music surpassed 50 million active users, so the deal is likely to be beneficial to both companies, of course.

via Cult of Mac

Update, for Bruno Santana Dec 14, 2018 at 17:25

Apparently, Amazon decided to advance things a little: three days before the announced date, it is already possible to connect your Apple Music account to Echo devices in the United States, as reported by 9to5Mac.

The connection is made through the Alexa app for iOS, and the digital assistant can control the playback of the platform. streaming da Maçã through voice commands – including accessing playlists or Beats 1 radio. You can even set Apple Music as your device’s default player so that it automatically accesses the service when you ask it to play a specific song or something.