Why buy music from iTunes when I can stream whatever I want for a small monthly fee with Spotify?
Maybe no with Spotify....but I would rather stream my music.
Why buy music from iTunes when I can stream whatever I want for a small monthly fee with Spotify?
40 new CDs per month, it's cheaper to pay Deezer $7.
And the CDs are cheaper than iTunes.
This is the point. Lots of people like to own the "records" that they buy. Spotify is ok, but it suffers from outages like every other streaming service (carrier fault) and I consistently find it to be a pain in certain areas where I live (Denver, CO).
I miss owning my music. If I lose my spotify subscription I lose my music. I can totally see the need to want to own what you purchase.
Apple needs to release the Android version of iTunes to make up for the 60% of users that have moved on. As a former iPhone user and now an Android user I really don't want to use Google Music or others but there are no good options. My main music library is still in iTunes on my PC and I need to use Windows Media Player or something else to sync my library to my Moto X. I'd much rather sync from iTunes right to my Android phone.
Apple needs to release the Android version of iTunes to make up for the 60% of users that have moved on. As a former iPhone user and now an Android user I really don't want to use Google Music or others but there are no good options. My main music library is still in iTunes on my PC and I need to use Windows Media Player or something else to sync my library to my Moto X. I'd much rather sync from iTunes right to my Android phone.
Apple doesn't need to support you at all, you left the ecosystem. Come back if you want it.
40 new CDs per month, it's cheaper to pay Deezer $7.
And the CDs are cheaper than iTunes.
Apple doesn't need to support you at all, you left the ecosystem. Come back if you want it.
most people don't buy music anymore via the itunes model
why buy a $10 album when you can get unlimited streaming for $10 a month?
Why buy music from iTunes when I can stream whatever I want for a small monthly fee with Spotify?
Such arrogance. Its no wonder that iTunes sales are declining.
40???? then you clearly arent the demo for the streaming market though. i bought one cd two years ago. thats about it but i happily pay for Spotify. no need to find downloads from other "sources" anymore. i am actually getting it legal this way now. plus i never listen to an album for more than a month so owning it wouldnt even make much sense for me besides costing more money
The purchase of media in general is declining. There's nothing Apple can do to convince people to buy music when streaming is the new market. Absolutely nothing about this is surprising/unexpected.
It seems that one of the major reasons Apple wants Iovine is to negotiate content deals with entertainment companies. I don't think they are as shortsighted as you think, and probably most Apple employees use prime/netflix/hulu. They're just getting stonewalled by content providers that don't want to deal with their level of control. Hopefully some acquisitions can help them in this department.
But one amazing thing about Apple is that they have the money to overcome any deficiency if they have to. They could easily buy netflix! Hell, they could buy the cable companies themselves and still only use about half of their on hand cash. Not saying they'd want to, but still...
iTunes revenue is declining because it focuses on a dying medium (music) instead of video. It took Apple way too far into the game to launch iTunes Radio and they have ZERO focus on a Netflix/Prime competitor which is where future revenues are to be had.
How many songs do you buy a year. for 9.99 a month, to me it's cheaper to just buy what I want.
I buy music that I want to keep or play remotely. When I do I buy through iTunes.
Isn't the issue that Apple is late to streaming music and are now having to spend $3B to catch up?