Brains behind subscription Beats Music to also oversee Apple's iTunes Radio
Beats Music CEO Ian Rogers will assume control of Apple's iTunes Radio service, according to a new report, uniting both of Apple's streaming music services under a single executive as the company gears up for a renewed assault on incumbent industry leaders Spotify and Pandora.
The purported leadership change comes on the same day that Apple officially welcomed Beats as a subsidiary, and less than one week after reports of Beats staff being laid off as Apple identified synergies between the two companies. Rogers's new role was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Though Rogers has been notably absent from the media circus surround Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats, Apple CEO Tim Cook specifically called him out in a tweet earlier Friday. In the missive, Cook welcomed "Jimmy, Dre, Luke, Ian and the entire beats team," including both Rogers and Beats Electronics CEO Luke Wood, who has kept a similarly low profile since the deal was announced.
Rogers made his bones in the music industry as a website developer for the Beastie Boys, eventually being hired by Yahoo to lead the portal's music division. Jimmy Iovine tabbed Rogers to run the new Beats Music division January of 2013.
With Rogers's new role confirmed, the only Beats executive left in the lurch is Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who doubled as the music service's Chief Creative Officer. It is still unknown what role, if any, Reznor will fill at Apple.
The purported leadership change comes on the same day that Apple officially welcomed Beats as a subsidiary, and less than one week after reports of Beats staff being laid off as Apple identified synergies between the two companies. Rogers's new role was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Though Rogers has been notably absent from the media circus surround Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats, Apple CEO Tim Cook specifically called him out in a tweet earlier Friday. In the missive, Cook welcomed "Jimmy, Dre, Luke, Ian and the entire beats team," including both Rogers and Beats Electronics CEO Luke Wood, who has kept a similarly low profile since the deal was announced.
Rogers made his bones in the music industry as a website developer for the Beastie Boys, eventually being hired by Yahoo to lead the portal's music division. Jimmy Iovine tabbed Rogers to run the new Beats Music division January of 2013.
With Rogers's new role confirmed, the only Beats executive left in the lurch is Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who doubled as the music service's Chief Creative Officer. It is still unknown what role, if any, Reznor will fill at Apple.
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See? Web development isn't necessarily a dead-end job after all!
The only thing Eddy should be focused on is retirement planning. Since Steve died he's proved to be ****ing useless.
Your proof of this is what?
What will be most interesting is when iOS 8 and Yosemite go live. If all this iCloud stuff doesn't "just work" there's going to be a lot of unhappy customers. Depending on how the roll out goes this fall I think we'll know whether Cue is planning retirement or not.
So no proof, then.
Agreed. No proof. Rogifan tends to write words she cannot and will not back up.
No proof that you accept. If Apple are buying a company for $3B partially because of it's streaming service what does that tell you about the in house development and management of the existing streaming service?
If they then make the manager of the acquired service the manager of the unified steaming service. What does that tell you?
Why just point out Eddy Cue? How about everyone who did not get any stage time? Obviously, the star of the show was Craig. His leadership work will be the face of Apple's products in the coming months. And, he is busting ass (and hair) to get the front-end working as well as possible.
Craig's predominance at the WWDC is probably also bad news for big Phil.
This tells me Apple tried to do something well, discovered its efforts were not exceptional enough to be happy with, decided to bring someone with a proven track record on to the team to take Apple where it thinks it needs to go. Seems damn obvious to me.
I am guessing Phil be visible with the releases of the new hardware later this year.
Which is a demotion for the guy who wasn't exceptional. He cost the company.
We'll see. Like forstall I think he was more Steve's guy.
No, no proof whatsoever. Nothing that has been posted proves that Eddy Cue has done nothing.
Again. Nothing that you will accept.
1) Eddy cue was in charge of iTunes Radio.
2) It didn't work out. Wasn't a success.
3) Apple buys a company in - the most expensive in their history - In part to better this service, and removes Cue from position of iTunes Radio head.
TS believes there is nothing to see here. Most people would see it as a wake up call.
(He was in charge of too much to be fair. )
If this is the extent of your argument, you may as well stop posting.
Funny that you think this.