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Apple Caves on Streaming Music Royalty Rates, First Deal to Be Signed Next Week
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When you are late to the game you have to pay what everyone else does. Only the first company to start a new business model usually gets great deals. Pandora did but slowly they have been having a tough time making money because of rising royalties.
And it could all be total BS. that they are trying to remake Pandora etc. that they demanded lower royalties, that they backed down
We will never know such details as fact, just rumor
Spotify is a subscription service that gives you access to their entire library. Nothing in these news leaks about iRadio suggest that. It seems they will just add a way to buy the songs. It's really a shame if they don't provide a subscription options like Spotify.
It's a pretty likely rumor since most of the leaks came from multiple music studios that were dealing with Apple.
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Let me know when iRadio gives me complete access to the entire iTunes music library on multiple platforms (including the web which they are rolling out now). You get all of those with Spotify.
Exactly.
Imagine the slogan: "The iPhone... now with free streaming iRadio"
That would sell a few iPhones
Steve Jobs might have never caved but probably would have gotten a better deal. Either way, this is a good thing for consumers as the choice was content or no content. I'll take the content.
Is Spotify more like Grooveshark?
I like how Grooveshark lets me search songs, so I use it over anything else.
Seems like apple just gave up on it, i have never seen an iAd on my iPad and when i see it on my iPhone 5 it still doesn't support the 4 inch screen and comes up with black bars.
This isn't gonna be like Spotify which lets you search up an artist and listen to their music. This is gonna be like pandora but better.
Let me explain. Apple wants this to be a radio like service with the ability to purchase songs you hear on the spot which will then go through iCloud to all your devices and computers.
Apple wants you listening to new music so that you will purchase more often. What's the point in listening to songs on the radio that you already have in your iTunes library?? This is all about selling content to its users not just streaming what they already like to listen to.
Let me explain. Apple wants this to be a radio like service with the ability to purchase songs you hear on the spot which will then go through iCloud to all your devices and computers.
Apple wants you listening to new music so that you will purchase more often. What's the point in listening to songs on the radio that you already have in your iTunes library?? This is all about selling content to its users not just streaming what they already like to listen to.
If this works through the USB connection in my Acura, ill be very happy. I'm hoping it will display the track and artist name like it does when I play iTunes music from the ipad.
So where's all the comments about everyone emulating apple? Obviously this is not an original idea. Not that I care. I take the best regardless of who came up with the idea first. Ill dump pandora in a heartbeat just like I dumped my iPhone for android.
So where's all the comments about everyone emulating apple? Obviously this is not an original idea. Not that I care. I take the best regardless of who came up with the idea first. Ill dump pandora in a heartbeat just like I dumped my iPhone for android.
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Really cause what I have seen are places like the Post CLAIMING to have talked to multiple sources. Which could be true and could that they went into several different bathrooms to pull things out of their butts
Besides I thought I read that Pandora had the best deal with the music industry right now. So if Apple is "neck and neck" with Pandora in regards to their deal with the industry then they'll be okay. As someone mentioned, Apple just wants to sell the hardware and they have far more money than all the music services out there. Free would be awesome and definitely a big sell for their hardware, cheap subscription would be the next best thing. Hope it works out for them.
No, not the first time. They relented when the music companies pushed to get away from .99 songs. Sure the end deal to make some older songs .69 let Apple save face, but Apple lost that round too. Music companies are in control of their content again. Apple is just one of many outlets now. They don't have the same bargaining power as when iTunes was unique.
You're absolutely correct but this isn't the strategy that Apple usually adopts. They always charge to for content even when strategically they might be able to expand market share by subsidising it (and I guess it hasn't harmed them at all because they are sitting on a huge pile of cash!).
I would expect some sort of subscription charge (about the same as match?), but time will tell.
Yup. I don't but much digital music just because I want a lossless copy, but when I do I go to Amazon because I can play it on my devices via their app @ no extra cost, unlike Apple. Also though Amazon has some amazing $5 MP3 album sales + the new AutoRip feature is handy as well.