[NewsPoster]

T-Mobile is extending its Music Freedom offer to 11 more streaming services, allowing customers to listen to even more music apps without affecting their data allowance. The new additions bring the total number of services supported under Music Freedom to 44, with the carrier claiming subscribers taking advantage of the offer are streaming more than 196 million songs daily across all existing streaming platforms.

The services added this week mostly consist of streaming companies with smaller niche audiences, including Aud.io, Dash Radio, DatPiff, Jango, KCRW, Noon Pacific, Radio Danz, SomaFM, Spinrilla, and StreamOn. One notable addition is TuneIn Premium, which provides subscribers with audio feeds for every NFL, MLB, and Barclays Premier League game, over 600 commercial-free music stations, and 40,000 audiobooks.

Microsoft's holiday advertising features choir singing outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store

Microsoft has involved Apple in its holiday television advertising, with Microsoft Store staff singing in front of an Apple Store. A two-minute online version of the advertisement shows Microsoft staff lining up outside the Fifth Avenue Apple Store on November 15, singing "Let There Be Peace on Earth" accompanied by a children's choir, with a shorter one-minute cut of the ad set to start airing tomorrow.

According to AdAge, Microsoft had to get permission from Apple in order to perform in front of the store, due to the city's security rules. Even so, Apple was not informed of what would occur, only discovering it was a choir on the night of the shoot.

[Stuke]

Well, when you're the number one B&M store, number one smartphone platform, number one growing PC maker, and number one music service in the world, others can only "ask" for peace in the marketplace to give themselves a fighting chance. Only problem is...it is the people in the choir choosing independently to go with Apple products/services vs. any other. I'd like to learn later than x% of the choir singers actually use iOS!