In a blog post on Friday, Amazon announced that starting the week of December 17, Echo smart speaker owners will be able to stream Apple Music on their devices. Amazon Announces Echo Smart Speakers to Support Apple Music Starting December 17, Apple Music will launch on Amazon Echo smart speakers.

In yet another sign of cooperation between the two tech giants, another barrier has been broken.

Call or message supported Alexa-enabled devices, at no additional costīy using this app, you agree to Amazon’s Conditions of Use (and all of the terms found here (Please see our Privacy Notice ((NASDAQ: AMZN) and Apple (NASDAQ:A APL) are smart speaker competitors and digital assistant competitors. But they share a common foe in both of these critical markets: Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), more specifically Google.

Use Drop In from your app to connect instantly with your compatible Echo devices, like a two-way intercom.

View and edit shopping and to-do lists on the go, get weather and news updates, manage timers and alarms, and more.

Create speaker groups to play music across your compatible Echo devices for multi-room music.

Choose a song or playlist and listen on your Alexa-enabled devices

Connect to music services like Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.

Create routines to automate your smart home devices.

Set up your Alexa-enabled devices, control or check status of your compatible smart lights, locks and thermostats at home or on the go.Pick up where you left off directly from the home feed with lists, shopping, or recently played Music and Books.Discover and enable recommended Alexa skills.Get more out of your Echo device through personalized feature recommendations from Alexa.The more you use Alexa, the more she adapts to your voice, vocabulary and personal preferences. When you enable hands free with Alexa, you can talk to Alexa by simply saying “Alexa” when the app is on your screen. Use the Amazon Alexa app to manage Alexa-enabled devices, control music playback, view shopping lists on the go, keep track of upcoming reminders, check on active timers and much more.

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