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Apple Acquiring Shazam and Says 'Exciting Plans' Are Ahead
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As of 2017, Spotify aren’t a profitable business. I wouldn’t class that as ‘perfect health’.
worked for amazon. They only recently started turning a profit. For the vast majority of it's life amazon lost money.Oh. Then yes, perfectly healthy.
Apple should just buy Apple and be done with it. Apple has all that money just sitting in banks overseas. They should stop bs'ing around and make an offer for Apple. If Apple refuses, Apple has enough clout, cash, and securites for a hostile takeover of Apple.
Take a look at all of Google’s acquisitions that deal in AI. There are quite a few. So are we now saying Google can’t improve Assistant without buying things simply because they’ve bought more than one company that deals in imagine recognition?
It was *may* acquire, but as of this article, it is very much *has* acquired
Who is using shazam still?? it was a neat bar trick to show off to non-techy friends... but that's it. I deleted this off my phone years ago... such a rarely needed application.
I'd hardly say "perfect health" since they're hemorrhaging money and its difficult to see how their business model can ever turn a profit, but I also don't see this as a "death blow."
Amazon was throwing money into investments. They could have been making money. Spotify, on the other hand, is still holding out that putting more free (money losing) users will somehow equate to making money.
Amazon has a plan to make money, Spotify doesn’t seem to have one.
Don’t understand that either. It isn’t like Spotify isn’t doing a good job of that themselves, though.
Proof? Really...
Apple and most other large tech companies have routinely been acquiring smaller companies for many years. Not a surprise.
Wow, that's exciting. People have been looking for the monopole for a very long time. Will really simplify Maxwell's equations.
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yes.
Spoken from inside your own insulated echo chamber.
Burst that bubble.
I wish Shazam could listen in on audio played through other apps. For example, if I'm listening to a podcast on Overcast, and there is a song playing, I can't Shazam that song.
I hope you're wrong… but I suspect so as well.
Without a doubt. In fact, the app, itself, may go away. Seems much more likely for it to be further integrated into siri / siri suggestions / lock screen and the music app.
Hoping stand-alone app doesn’t go away. Asking Siri is a lot less convenient than opening the app and pressing the button. Especially in a loud venue.
Edit: also secretly hoping I get my £2.99 back for going ad free
Edit: also secretly hoping I get my £2.99 back for going ad free
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Apple have said they are acquiring them. Do you know better than Apple?