“Prior to the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona we revealed that Samsung had applied for three trademarks relating to Milk Music, a new music streaming service,” Jack Purcher reports for PatentlyA Apple.
“On Friday, Samsung launched their new music streaming with that branding,” Purcher reports. “Apple introduced iTunes Radio at their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last June and launched the new service on September 18, 2013, the same day as iOS 7.”
Purcher reports, “It was inevitable that the fast follower we know as Samsung would introduce such a service quickly behind Apple.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Slavish copier. Plans for a slightly oval, spaceship-looking Samsung HQ in South Korea cannot be far behind.
Look, I hate the copy-everything-at-no-cost-to-us Samsung as much as anyone else, but come on, we certainly were not the first to market here.
While iTunes Radio may evolve to be the best, I’m not going to call Samsung out on this particular item as everyone else is or has been doing it. They won’t do it as well anyway.
As someone mentioned on the linked article, from a music discovery standpoint, I am sure iTunes Radio is selling a lot of music as well. I have spent a few dollars picking up song that have come up, and I don’t find the ads that intrusive either.
If it were just one, isolated case of copying, then I would let it go. But it is one more event in a history of slavish copying on the part of Samsung.
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Exactly. We Apple fans/users may be totally obsessive about detail and design, etc, but come on, no one in their right mind thinks Apple was the first to a subscription service. For years Jobs explicitly described it as a bad business model, and a bad way to enjoy music. Apple is only now doing iTunes Radio as a way to promote….. paying for downloads on the iTMS.
Ridiculous Headline, especially since Samsungs horrifically ugly app looks NOTHING LIKE iTunes Radio.
How dare you make a logical comment!
“For years Jobs explicitly described it (subscription service) as a bad business model, and a bad way to enjoy music.”
iTunes Radio isn’t a music subscription service, it’s . . . well . . . radio.
Right. As I state in that very post, it’s a way to promote downloads on the iTunes Store. But how in the world is that innovative? That is essentially the model that every subscription service uses: stream for free and pay for offline/downloads.
Surely you can’t be using this logic to insist that Samsung has copied Apple (who was extremely late to this market)?!
No, it was in response to you quoting Steve Jobs insinuating that iTunes Radio is what Jobs was criticizing. It isn’t.
And don’t call me Shirley! 😉
The article never claims that Apple was first. It doesn’t claim that anywhere. It’s just pointing out that Samsung failed the first time with a music service, then brought it back right after Apple got it right. = Fast Follower. That’s the theme, not that Apple was first.
It’s more of an obsession thing with Samsung that’s being pointed out. It’s also just fun to stick Samsung in the eye whenever we can. I’m all for that. I really despise Samsung. Yet the article doesn’t harp on the subject and points out a few highlights of the new service.
Considering that Sammy just added a fingerprint scanner too, you have to admit that these guys are obsessed about Fast Following Apple on anything important that Apple does on a consistent basis.
Agree with you 100%, just that there have been a few successful non-subscription services around for awhile now. I was more than anything referencing the headline and “Take”.
I hate these guys, and wonder if they will ever get any sort of come-uppance. It seems patently, (pun intended), unfair that they have profited greatly from Apple’s R&D will no payback for Apple in sight. It’s crap I tell ya, crap!
I’m going to pick up my new $3K refrigerator today. There were 3 models on the floor in that price range that had all the features I wanted. Two of them were Samsung refrigerators. I never even opened the door on them. I bought the non-Samsung model, simply because I hate Samsung’s business practices and attitude. I’ll continue to boycott Samsung as a matter of personal integrity. I don’t do business with thieves and liars.
If you had opened the Samsung model, you would have found poor interior space utilization and poor shelf construction. I do not know if what you bought is much better. It could not possibly be worse, so no technical loss on your part. And you have the gain of knowing that you did not support an unethical company.
Samsung feels the same way hence they thank you for not buying their products. BTW…check your fridge very closely and yep just like Apple it has Samsung tech in it. You are such a fool you brainwashed feeble little jerk!
So in other words, you have nothing intelligent to say. Got it.
Good thing you passed on the Internet-equipped Samsung models. Order ice cream on the included Android touch screen, be inundated with ads for Ben and Jerry’s for the next five years on all your devices.
No, you’re thinking of the upcoming Google refrigerator. The Samsung design includes a toaster oven.
http://www.samsung.com/us/appliances/refrigerators/RSG309AARS/XAA
The people at samsung know that as long as they do whatever Apple does, they will continue to sell their phones and tablets. These people have no shame.
No Apple wasn’t the first, but its the fact that what Microsoft used to do and just plain rip off whatever Apple does they do kinda thing that gets everyone riled up. Google and Samsung do what Microsoft did years ago by copying everything Apple does. Actually Google is todays Microsoft! Or its even gotten worse with Google and Samsung, they are putting out products based on Apple rumors! I’m surprised Google and Samsung haven’t made a full on Google brand TV yet.
Apple wasn’t first. Leave it at that. Quit trying to craft an argument when you have no basis for that argument. It’s embarrassing.
There are lots go do some research over the past 20-35 years! Or more up to date, the past 8 years!
Again you can’t craft your argument to suit your needs. You speak in generalities. You can’t lump life together in a couple of sentences to make you right. Apple wasn’t first. Nor were they with the iPod. Nor the iPad or the iPhone. Were they copiers in each of those instances? No. Nor is Samsung, Microsoft or Google when they duplicate what others do. It’s called business. Apple just makes things better. Most of the time. Be happy with that. Leave your fanboy attitude at home.
“Nor is Samsung, Microsoft or Google when they duplicate what others do. It’s called business.”
No, it’s called violating patent law, as Samsung has found out.
Just want to put it out there for everyone to see:
“I don’t have and will never have a Samsung branded product in my house.”
I look forward to the day Apple is Samsung free.
I have to admit that I have a few legacy Samsung products in my home. But I have not purchased a Samsung product in years, and I do not intend to do so going forward. I know that many of the products that I buy include Samsung components but, unfortunately, there is not a whole lot I can do about that.
You have more Samsung tech in your Apple brainwashed world. Wake up and figure it out. Apple is a front for Samsung as are 100’s of other brands.
First of all, you are an anonymous turd. Go flush yourself or grow some balls and register on this forum. At least botvinnik is registered. It is his sole redeeming quality.
Second, I *stated in my post* that many of the products that I buy contain Samsung components. I am fully aware of it. But I do what I can to reduce my contributions to Samsung’s bottom line. I am willing to bet that Samsung makes a lot more profit from its branded products than it does from its sales of commodity components. I don’t have the time to determine the Samsung component content in everything that I buy. So I simply avoid the Samsung label and take some solace in the fact that Apple is doing its best to minimize its use of Samsung components. That’s one step in the right direction.
I don’t know why you are so bitter about this topic, Paul. For some reason, you seem compelled to vent your frustration on Samsung-avoiding people. You need a timeout.
I am immediately “unregistering.” It is my goal in life to be perceived by Melvin as having no redeeming qualities. It’s my red badge of courage.
Milk, eh? Where’s the beef?
Kimchee wasn’t available.
Those dog eaters don’t need no stinkin’ beef!
What a crappy name for a streaming music service. I would have expected “Smusic” from Samsung.
I’m shocked they haven’t used sTunes.
As far as Samesong goes, I’m lactose intolerant.
And in related news, samsung announces it will change its name to “Pear” .. or maybe “Bitten pear”.. or so.
Nothing will stop Samsung from being inrorative.
Waiting for AutoPlay. Their new in car phone/tablet integration product. Thieving bastards.
Must have a Samsung fan putting in one star votes. Where do these guys come from?
I am shocked that they don’t put a “me” in front of all their products, mephone, memusic, metv, mepod, then when they get to the second gens, they could say me2phone, me2music, me2tv, me2pod. At least they would own up to the slavish copying ways, right!
Will the service or music have an expiration date and if this fails will they further “innovate” with an update to Buttermilk?
MILK. <– Seriously.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
The jokes about the joke have already begun…
Udderly ridiculous.
Mooove over Apple!
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Showcasing top numbers from the biggest stars, such as Dolly Parton, Squeeze, Pink, Cream, KISS, Blind Melon, Biggie Smalls, Hootie and the Blowfish, Thompson Twins, Oingo Boingo, Roy Orbison, Smashing Pumpkins, and many more!
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Milking Apple.
I wonder how many Canadians ponied up for iTune Match last year thinking iTunes radio was coming soon. Here we are in March and still nothing. Though it’s comforting knowing if my entire RAID array dies, I can still retrieve every single song.
No one gives a shit about Canada.
Don’t worry, you ain’t missing much. It is another Maps. Apple should have copied Pandora, I have gone back to Pandora.
You don’t get it, its ok when Apple does it! No seriously, Apple isn’t sitting on the side ripping off Pandora on every rumor or announcement time after time.
Apple has a “radio service” within iTunes since at least 2003.
Hmmm… I guess Apple has been around the music-from-a-radio-broadcast-on-the-internet business for a while.
How long has Pandora been around? or any other “multiple station internet broadcast music service”?
This me too crap is just that, crap. The iPod wasn’t the first digital music player, but it sure did impact the market. A bit.
Samsung is a lavish unashamed copier. That’s just a fact. I vote with my pocketbook. That is the only way I can make an impact.
Samsung wants your kid’s milk money.
No, if SomeDung wants to look original, they should come out with original product concepts, perhaps ones with that authentic Korean flavour–rather than ersatz Californian.
How about, ‘Wake up to the fragrance of health-giving Kimchee!’ with the Smell-o-Vision Dongle, and mouth-watering hi-res pix of putrefied cabbage? Perhaps the ScamDung best-seller “100 Best Worm Dishes,” or “Dog Recipes 4 Dummies” to reprise those national delicacies that were officially banned during the Seoul Olympics some years ago. Gosh! if that didn’t Scam yer Dong, I don’t know what would! YUM!
How did they get all the music labels on board?
They didn’t. They’re just “borrowing” the copyrighted music, like they “borrow” Apple’s patents.
Copycats at it again.
Samsung’s approach is to try and do everything and find what’s sticks. They make so many products that eventually something will work.
Smartphones are probably one of their more successful ventures. They have grown their business, made some cash and now starting to lose the volume battle to copy cats of the ultimate copycat.
So I view the music venture as a low chance of success and will just be another drain on their business.
“…the fast follower we know as Samsung…”
That’s one way to characterize them – following Apple like the guy on the freeway that is inches from your rear bumper even though the lanes on either side are empty.
Has nothing to do whether Apple was first or not, has EVERYTHING to do with the fact Samsung didn’t do it until after Apple did, which has been the case for many other things.
It’s obvious that Samsung thinks Apple is their #1 competitor – this happens so often that it seems like Samsung has a bad case Apple envy.