A new survey from consumer ratings firm Nielsen has marked Apple Music as one of the
top 10 most popular mobile apps, with some 54.5 average monthly users in the US alone. This also made the service the second-fastest growing app, only behind Facebook Messenger. The figures represent a 26 percent year-over-year rise, although the most recent official figure for paid subscribers was 6.5 million, reported by CEO Tim Cook
in October. Facebook was, once again, the top smartphone app, with 126.7 million US users.
The figures, gathered among US users from January to October by the firm, showed Apple Music in ninth place, just behind Instagram but ahead of Apple's own Maps service. The list was largely dominated by Google apps, including YouTube and the search app, by virtue of the fact that the advertising giant's apps are on both Android as well as iOS, as are Facebook's two apps. Apple Music just recently launched an Android version of its app, which should help improve next year's numbers.
Apple updates support for USB Camera Adapter
Following a recent upgrading of its Lightning SD Camera Card Reader to accommodate the new USB 3.0 speeds found in the iPad Pro's Lightning port and adding iPhone compatibility, the company has updated its
page for the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter -- officially adding iPhone support for the iPhone 5 and later, which actually happened with the release of iOS 9.2. The move could hint that a new version of the USB Camera adapter -- which offers a limited-use female USB port for directly connecting some models of DSLR -- is on the way.
At one time, the USB adapter supported other devices
It seems likely that Apple will soon replace the existing MD821AM/A part with a revision that, like the Lightning SD Reader, will be compatible with USB 3.0 speeds for the benefit of the iPad Pro and (presumably) future iPad and iPhone models that will feature an improved Lightning port. This could also potentially re-enable other uses for the USB port on the adapter, as was once supported -- Apple quickly withdrew support for any other use of the USB port adapter, though it briefly supported USB microphones and some other low-power peripherals.
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