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摘要

Seven years ago, Steve Jobs bluntly quelled speculation that his company's popular iTunes service would move to a subscription model. "People want to own their music," the luminary Apple CEO said. His company may now be owning up to the fact that that's not the case. Apple is reportedly finalizing a $3.2 billion acquisition of Beats Music, the headphone and digital-music-streaming service run by Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. The deal, which would be Apple's largest purchase to date, marks its full embrace of streaming-the obstinate company that invented digital music is conceding that someone else can do it better.