What Apple’s Acquisition of Dr. Dre’s Beats Means

Emerging trend: Apple is bringing location-based targeting to music audiences, moving to buy Dr. Dre’s Beats electronics business.

Implication: Apple will extend its ad network and iBeaconservice to Beats streaming service to Beats streaming service, which predicts what type of music users may like based on their location.

Action: Line up to target heavy data users who will pay extra for streaming music and other entertainment content.