Apple Inc. is reportedly thinking of offering iTunes to Android devices to attract users and to recover from its two-digit loss in the number of iTunes downloads in the United States.

According to the information and sales tracking system NielsenSoundScan, iTunes digital album sales for the week ended in March 9 decreased by 13 percent. Digital track sales, on the other hand, are lower by 11 percent compared to last year.

The sales trend led the company to consider the option the late Steve Jobs has doubted before, which is opening iTunes ecosystem to other users.

Jobs had long argued that people will not subscribe for music. His wordsmay have proven true for Apple's iTunes, but not with other music-streaming services.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), though iTunes' rates declined, profit of music-streaming services like Spotify and Pandora One progressed. They were able to generate an income worth $1.4 billion from subscription, licensing revenues, and advertising last year -- higher by 39 percent from 2012. However, their revenue from downloads, decreased by 3.2 percent.

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) report was pretty much the same. It reported that the revenue of music-streaming services worldwide increased by 51 percent, while revenue from downloads decreased by 2.1 percent.

Once iTunes refurbishes its business model, there will surely be a significant impact of the label's business models as it accounts for about 40 percent of recorded music profit in the United States.

"They are feeling out some people at labels on thoughts about transitioning its customers from iTunes proper to a streaming service," said an anonymous major label source to Billboard. "So when you buy a song for $1.29, and you put it in your library, iTunes might send an e-mail pointing out that for a total of, say, $8 a month you can access that song plus all the music in the iTunes store. It's all in the 'what if' stage."

When asked about the matter, a spokesperson for iTunes declined to comment.