It looks like Microsoft's Xbox Music service won't stay exclusive to Windows Phones. Despite not bringing their subscription based music service to their own platforms, the Redmond based company plans to launch Xbox Music apps for iOS and Android devices.Microsoft's Xbox Music gives you access to more than 30 million tunes for $10 a month (or $100 a year), if you are not a fan of ad-supported models.
Xbox Music is already available on the Xbox, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. By expanding the service to Android and iOS, Microsoft hopes to introduce new customers to their service and hopefully have them switch over to the Windows brand for the whole deal.
The music streaming service market already has services like Apple's iTunes Radio or Google Play All Access which are brand specific, while Spotify is available across multiple platforms. Xbox Music can one up their big competitors if they can offer a competitive cross platform solution.
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Xbox Music will allow ad-supported web streaming for free in the first six months. After that the content will be capped to 10 hours of listening per month. Microsoft plans to add new ways to make playlists, too, in line with its touch-oriented operating systems - when you hear a song you like on other web-based music services, you would be able to simply swipe and scoop the artists and albums for a new playlist that will be created in your Xbox Music Windows 8 app.