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On OS X, clicking the "Start listening now >" link opens up iTunes and you get a dialog saying that iTunes 12.2 is required for Apple Music. Clicking the "Upgrade" button brings you to Apple's download iTunes web page which only has 12.1.X available.

Guess 12.2 will come out later today. Updating to OS X 10.10.4 did not come with it.

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According to https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7103621 it's expected to come out "around 2 this afternoon". I'm guessing PDT.

so Q: do you guys/gals think this is intentional? Or did Apple encounter a last minute hiccup with iTunes 12.2? Could be that they intentionally want to load up on iOS subscribers first... who knows why (maybe network bandwidth is more predictable than on desktop?). Guesses?

I've had this problem for years, and I think it's because I often switch my apple account between countries. The update notifications and the updates themselves come through on two different channels, which are usually out of sync.

1. One app will think my account is "in" the U.S., sends me to the App Store for an update. 2. App Store checks and sees that, oh, nope, this is a German account, but maybe try back in few days.

Guesses?

They encountered a problem, or the teams doing the updates are out of sync. Or they're scrambling to get it out due to some caching problem. Who knows really any number of things could be going wrong.

Apple always does updates in batches to help server load as well as minimize the affect of any issues that happen whenever the update goes live.

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