Apple unveils music streaming, software upgrades and apps

San Francisco

APPLE's iTunes has grown stale. It is difficult to use and feels dated when compared with online music services like Spotify and Pandora. Pick your critique, and Apple has heard it.

But an overhaul of Apple's music products, which includes an integration of the Beats music service that the Cupertino, California, company acquired last year for US$3 billion, shows that Apple, if anything, knows that it has to grab attention while playing catch-up.