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Apple Music launches in China
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 1 October 2015
Assuming you intentionally, or forgetfully, allowed your Apple Music subscription to renew this morning and start charging you £10 a month, you can fire up the streaming service today safe in the knowledge that people in China can do the same.
Not made available to Chinese music fans on its original launch earlier this summer, Apple Music has now come online there too. And it comes with the standard price point – 10 Chinese Yuan Renminbi per month – although that works out at about £1, so you may or may not want to start feeling a little miffed now.
“Customers in China love the App Store and have made it our largest market in the world for app downloads”, said Apple’s Eddy Cue in a statement. “One of the top requests has been more great content and we’re thrilled to bring music, movies and books to China, curated by a local team of experts”.
That’s right, he’s thrilled. And understandably so. As you might have guessed from what he just said, Apple also launched iTunes Movies and iBooks for Chinese users at the same time. What a thrilling day.
