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Apple WWDC 2015

Apple's annual developers conference kicks off with a keynote June 8.

  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:52:16 PM
    "One single app on your iPhone. Apple Music is three things. A revolutionary music service curated by the leading music experts we help handpick."
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 6:52:21 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:52:29 PM
    "These people are going to help you with the most difficult question in music. When listening to playlist, what comes next."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:52:42 PM
    "Picture this, you're in a special moment. You're exercising or some other special moment."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:52:59 PM
    "Your heart's pumping and the next song comes on. EHHHH. Buzz kill"
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:53:16 PM
    "It happened because probably programmed by an algorithm alone. Algorithms alone can't do that. Need a human touch."
  • Scott Stein 6/8/2015 6:53:17 PM
    "need a human touch."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:53:27 PM
    "The first ever live, 24 hour worldwide radio station." (this is piece No. 2)
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:53:57 PM
    "Trent Reznor called me up and said, world's first worldwide radio station. Plays from three cities. not based on research, drum beats. Only music that is great and feels great. A station that has only one master, music itself."
  • Scott Stein 6/8/2015 6:54:22 PM
    so much machine learning, but this is something focused on human taste and curation.
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:54:25 PM
    "I said, why do artists always have the greatest ideas that are practically impossible to execute. I said wait a minute, we're at Apple. We're at Apple to help artists dreams be realized."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 6:54:30 PM
    Called Beats One
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:10:19 PM
    "Sometimes you just want to sit back and let someone else be your DJ. Let's go to Radio."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:10:28 PM
    "To give you a taste of what Beats One will sound like."
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:10:39 PM
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:10:46 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:11:06 PM
    "Let's look at Connect to see what some of my favorite artists are up to."
  • Scott Stein 6/8/2015 7:11:07 PM
    Radio station sounds like...a radio station
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:11:21 PM
    "Here's Bastille. They're working on their next album. Let's see what they have to say."
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:11:24 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:11:41 PM
    The band recorded a video clip with them playing a new song that's not on an album yet
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:11:47 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:11:51 PM
    "It's great to get behind the scenes and see the process an artist uses"
  • Scott Stein 6/8/2015 7:12:13 PM
    Love the extra music/artist stuff. Reminds me of the iTunes Extras with films.
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:12:25 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:12:31 PM
    "Again be able to see things you've not been able to hear or see."
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:12:43 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:13:02 PM
    "Loren Kramar, he's an unsigned artist. He just posted a new song on Connect, and I'd like to play it. It's the first time anyone's heard it. You're a new artist and look at all the people able to hear this song through Connect."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:13:20 PM
    "Loren Kramar. Remember that name. We think he's going to be really, really huge."
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:13:21 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:13:32 PM
    "I like to do stuff with Siri because Siri's leanring more about music."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:13:45 PM
    He says "play 'born to run'" And the song starts playing
  • Scott Stein 6/8/2015 7:13:54 PM
    this is approaching Google I/O Keynote length.
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:14:06 PM
    "Let's get a little more specific. 'Play the top 10 songs in alternative.'" And music starts playing
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:14:22 PM
    "If I tap on the next queue, I can see all the top 10 songs and what's next
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:14:30 PM
    "Play the top song from May 1982."
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:14:37 PM
    And Joan Jett's I Love Rock N Roll starts playing
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:14:51 PM
  • Scott Stein 6/8/2015 7:15:04 PM
    historical search w Siri...that's cool. It's Amazon Echo-esque
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:15:12 PM
    "Have you ever gone to a movie and loved a music in there but you don't remember the name. Can say - 'play the song from selma'"
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:15:16 PM
    Oops
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:15:21 PM
    Siri didn't really work
  • James Martin 6/8/2015 7:15:27 PM
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:15:28 PM
    That's usually what happens when I use Siri, too
  • Shara Tibken 6/8/2015 7:15:28 PM
    haha
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