Amazon launches its own streaming service – the Week’s Business

E-handelsjätten is now investing heavily in to gain market share.

E-handelsjätten Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in the lead now takes up the competition with musikjättar like Spotify and Apple. His new service, Amazon, Music Unlimited has an ace in the skjortärmen that competitors lack – the service is directly integrated with the company’s speakers Echo.

Amazon is now investing heavily in to gain market share in streaming music.

Initially get the service, Amazon, Music Unlimited is only available in the US for the same monthly cost as Spotify – 9,99 dollars.

However, pushing Amazon down the price for premium customers for 7,99 dollars, according to uk’s The Guardian.

Than the lower will be the price for those who already own the smart speaker Amazon Echo – 3,99 dollars.

Spotify is, admittedly, already integrated with the Echo today, while Apple Music rather work with the Apple TV, but Amazon hopes that some of the AI features in the new service allows customers give companies like Spotify and Apple.

AI functionality relating to ranging from that you just shall be able to mention a few lines in a text to get the song played to, for example, you should be able to choose songs from a certain period in the artist’s life.

The Guardian believe that this is far from what Spotify can do with the Echo today, or how Apple’s Siri could control the Apple Music on the user’s Iphone or TV.

the Initiative is also targeted directly against Google, which just introduced an Echo-competitor – Google Home.

It has similar features and can be connected to Google Play All Access service.

Jeff Bezos’s vision is that while the first generation of streaming music was all about computers and the other about the cell phone tap, most of it on to the third generation of the land within the home’s walls.

The Guardian notes, however, that there may be a certain deja vu feeling for Amazon-customers in with that you already can get the service Amazon Prime Music for free via Amazon Prime.

It has millions of songs and hundreds of playlists and is also included as standard when you buy the Echo of the speakers.

the Point is only that Amazon Music Unlimited promises much more songs.

There is no set date for when the new service the service is rolled out globally, according to The Guardian.