If you need your music everywhere, Apple Music's "voice plan" isn't for you

And while the idea of a discounted streaming service you have to talk to may seem a little odd, even that isn't all that weird. Two years ago, Amazon launched a cheaper version of Music Unlimited service that only runs on Echo speakers, and Apple Music's voice plan seemed tailor-made to compete with it on affordable smart speakers like HomePod minis. And if the promise of cheaper music access gets more people talking to Siri, that could mean more training data Apple could use to improve its voice assistant's performance down the road.