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Apple Puts Music Streaming Service on the Web, Rivaling Spotify

Beats Electronics Co-founder Jimmy Iovine speaks during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Beats Electronics Co-founder Jimmy Iovine speaks during the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its Apple Music service on the web, opening up access to users to who prefer a browser instead of an app.

The company said the web version is an early beta test. It looks similar to the Apple Music app coming to Mac computers later this year. Beats Music, which Apple bought in 2014, had a web version, but Apple discontinued that upon launching Apple Music in 2015.