Apple sees Beats' focus on music as complementary to its own, and it'll have Iovine and Dre working with it on future music offerings. "They’re going to be coming up with [features] that blow your mind," Apple CEO Tim Cook tells The New York Times, "and products you haven’t thought of yet, and seeing around the next corner to articulate the way to take music to an even higher level than it is now."
"I’ve always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple."
The two brands will remain separate and will even continue to offer casually competing services, including iTunes Radio and the recently launched Beats Music subscription service. Beats Music and Beats' headphone and speaker division will still be answering directly to Apple, however, with iTunes chief Eddy Cue taking charge of the former and marketing chief Phil Schiller taking the latter. Though this is a relatively huge purchase for Apple — which usually only buys smaller companies — the cost is far less meaningful to it thanks to its sizable stockpile of cash.
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