There was a lot of doubt surrounding Apple Music when it first launched, but now that most of the bugs have been fixed, not to mention the fact that it’s now available on Android, the service has proven itself to be a serious contender in the music-streaming market. It was only last month that the service announced that it had reached ten million paying users in six months, something that Spotify took six years to achieve. In the weeks since that announcement, Apple Music has added an additional one million paying users, according to an interview with Apple executives Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi on Friday.
During a wide-ranging interview published on Friday, Apple executives Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi revealed fresh statistics on the company’s various internet services like Apple Music, which now boasts more than 11 million paying subscribers. The new Apple Music headcount surfaced alongside other interesting tidbits in an hour-long sit-down session with John Gruber, published as an episode of the blogger’s The Talk Show podcast. The 11 million subscriber number is ten percent higher than the last figure provided in the company’s earnings call just over two weeks ago, when it was noted that over 10 million had signed up. During that call, Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook emphasized that Apple had also reached the milestone of one billion devices in its active installed base. Cue’s total of iCloud users is about 78 percent of that figure, which he explained was due to the fact that many people own multiple devices. Cue said that Apple’s 782 million iCloud users contribute to a crush of photo uploads, iMessage communications and iTunes and App Store purchases. At peak operating status, the company’s cloud currently processes over 200,000 iMessages per second, a number that translates to more than 17 billion per day. In addition, combined iTunes and the App Store purchases clock in at more than 750 million per week.
