Apple Music helps iOS 8.4 exceed 40% adoption in first week
Apple now notes that as of June 22, 84 percent of its mobile users are now using iOS 8. Analytics firm Mixpanel further details that 40 percent of the installed base has already upgraded to iOS 8.4, and states that rapid adoption is being driven by interest in the new Apple Music.
Apple's users are prompted to upgrade, so organic updates naturally drive adoption of new releases as they become available. However, Mixpanel's chief executive Suhail Doshi noted that 'the pace at which adoption has occurred indicates Apple Music is definitely a key factor as well' in driving adoption.

Source: Mixpanel
Apple Music requires iOS 8.4, giving users an additional reason to make space and set aside time to download the new software.
Going forward, Apple outlined plans at last month's Worldwide Developer Conference to make it even easier for users to adopt iOS 9, by greatly reducing the amount of free space users need to have in order to download the update, as well as allowing users to schedule the upgrade to occur at night.
Apple has long held an advanced lead in getting its users to upgrade to the latest version of its platforms, both when comparing iOS to Android and OS X to Windows. It is far easier for Apple to make updates available for its users because it doesn't have to deal with the vast variety of hardware differences in its installed base of users.

Apple's users are prompted to upgrade, so organic updates naturally drive adoption of new releases as they become available. However, Mixpanel's chief executive Suhail Doshi noted that 'the pace at which adoption has occurred indicates Apple Music is definitely a key factor as well' in driving adoption.

Source: Mixpanel
Apple Music requires iOS 8.4, giving users an additional reason to make space and set aside time to download the new software.
Going forward, Apple outlined plans at last month's Worldwide Developer Conference to make it even easier for users to adopt iOS 9, by greatly reducing the amount of free space users need to have in order to download the update, as well as allowing users to schedule the upgrade to occur at night.
Apple has long held an advanced lead in getting its users to upgrade to the latest version of its platforms, both when comparing iOS to Android and OS X to Windows. It is far easier for Apple to make updates available for its users because it doesn't have to deal with the vast variety of hardware differences in its installed base of users.
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I turned it off as well. The recommendations in For You actually got worse as time went on.
I also don't like that in the new Music app it is no longer simple to see what's in the cloud and what's on the device. I had to do a restore today because of the big number of bugs in 8.4, and now I'm having to spend hours retuning my music on my iPhone because the music wasn't restored the way it was before. If I had the old cloud download icon, problem solved.
At least they got rid of Cover Flow.
I'm still not liking it either and agree with you. Although, I'm still going to give it a chance for a little more time.
Not going to deny that Apple Music will be a hit because I think it will as well. I guess I'm just not that impressed with it as you are as I've been able to do all this already with Google Play Music except for the Sir integration, which I don't use anyways. Google Play Music already did a great job at curated music with Songza that's made by humans and discovery of new music for me. I'm still giving Apple Music a chance but the fact that it's hard as hell to make a new playlist from the song that's playing drives me bonkers.
Apple could've done the same at a fraction of the price, but they were pressed for time, which led them to over pay for Beats.
Really, don't worry. The Beats hardware business, all on its own, will pay back the acquisition costs in a reasonable number of years. People buying stocks regularly pay 15, 20, 50x annual earnings. And yet, to imagine that Apple might earn back its Beats acquisition cost in a matter of even 5 or 10 years seems to be shocking to people. It shouldn't be; that's to be expected even from the best acquisition. a business that will pay back its acquisition costs in a year or two is a business that the seller will demand a higher price for.
Ok I see what you're trying to say but saying that Apple had no "time" to build a top quality streaming service is bologna. Everyone else in the current business had time to get it up and running. Apple was just behind the eight ball on this one factor. Now they did a good thing by coming out with a good service which will do well but saying they didn't have time is just not true.
You mean like when iOS 8 came out to the same adoption rate despite the issues with the patch that had to be withdrawn?
"Less than one week after iOS 8 was made available for download, Apple on Tuesday announced the next-generation mobile operating system is now on 46 percent of devices linked to the iOS App Store."
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/23/apple-says-ios-8-already-on-46-of-devices-nears-ios-7-distribution
1. BAD experience, iTunes Match killed my Data-Plan on my Mobile Phone => deactivated this
2. BAD experience, iCloud messed up my complete music library.
OK, lesson learned, before I'm activating anything in iTunes in the future I'm searching for the 'consequences'.
So far for me, every iTunes 'improvement' backfired to me.
I tried out Beats 1, turned off Apple Music and haven't revisited either since installing it. And I'm really disappointed with the UI mess that is the app. My music is much less accessible and organized.
Here is the capper...for the first time since I've held AAPL, I'm seriously entertaining getting out of the stock and I'm thinking there is less chance now than before of it recovering and hitting $140 by the end of the year unless something spectacular is released. With the combination of the collapsing bubble of the Chinese stock market and the floundering EU, it isn't looking good. "Sog35's" prediction of $150 certainly won't happen (as I told him).
I'm going to hold you to that.
And what a huge mistake the installation of this clusterfuck was!
Now all around the world we cannot listen to vulgar music and podcasts. Thanks world's richest corporation!