Apple Music Is Now Half Price for Students
May 06 2016 - 1:27PM
Dow Jones News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Apple Music now costs half as much for students as it does for
the rest of us. On Friday, Apple Inc. began offering Apple Music to
college and university students at a monthly subscription price of
$4.99.
Apple will verify a student's active status (at any degree
level) using a service called Unidays, which lets students create
an online account to get discounts across various major retailers
and brands, Levi's, Zipcar, American Apparel, Microsoft and Urban
Outfitters.
During the Unidays sign-up process, students are prompted to log
in with their university email address. Once Unidays has verified
student status, the Apple Music discount can kick in for an
existing Apple ID used during the Apple Music sign-up process. So,
if you already have an Apple ID and are a student, you won't have
to create a new Apple ID to get this discount. And, if you're a
student who hasn't used up the free three-month trial that Apple
Music offers, you'll still get the first three months of the
service free before payments kick in.
The 50% student discount brings Apple's streaming music service
in line with Spotify and Tidal, both of which already offer $4.99
student subscriptions. Google Play Music offers no discount for
students, just the industry-standard $9.99 a month. All four rival
services do offer family plans, where multiple users can share a
subscription at a starting price of $14.99 a month. But the number
varies by service: While Apple's family plan covers up to six
people for that price, Spotify charges $4.99 for each additional
family member.
Apple's student plan is available right now in the U.S., U.K.,
Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and it is
available to students only for up to four years. So, if you end up
being a fifth-year senior in college, you'll have to pay full price
before graduation day. Spotify's student discount, on the other
hand, lasts only 12 months.
Write to Nathan Olivarez-Giles at
Nathan.Olivarez-giles@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
May 06, 2016 13:12 ET (17:12 GMT)
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