The three main players in this space - Pandora, Spotify and Last.fm - offer broadly comparable services, with a few details to separate them. But, quietly, outside the Apple spotlight, online music streaming services have matured, to the point where one could rely entirely on them for one’s listening, listening for free (with ads) or paying a monthly subscription fee instead of purchasing individual tracks and albums. To be sure, the iTunes Store, bolstered by hundreds of millions of iPods and iOS devices, has turned the market for purchased music on its head. The way we consume music has changed radically in the last decade.

#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.

#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.

#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.

#1662: New Macs, 12 top OS features for 2023, vertical tabs in Web browsers, watchOS 9.5.1.

#1663: Exploring the Apple Vision Pro, 12 more OS features coming in 2023, new Apple service features, Apollo shuts down.

Download last fm to spotify