Apple Confirms 71.5% Revenue Sharing for Apple Music, No Royalties During Trial Period

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I think it's worth making clear, because in many walks of life, a trial period, subscription, whatever, comes with strings attached, like you have to buy six issues or buy six bottles or subscribe for six months.

I, too, imagine that one will be able to cancel during the trial period with no obligation to pay for a subscription, but there is nothing from Apple to that effect. Ergo, it is wise to err on the side of caution, and check the fine print before signing up for the trial period of Apple Music. As Apple have not released any fine print detailing this, one has to assume that one can only cancel after paying for a subscription, as Apple have stated.

Please check out my response to Mustang. i will leave it at that.

 

[iConnected]

'In the absence of hard figures from Tim Cook' is a conditional clause. I have condensed it by missing out the verb, which is why you think it isn't conditional. I could have written, 'if Tim Cook doesn't provide any hard figures in the future,' but I chose to shorten it for ease of reading.

Good old English.

You can write lots of things, all having different meanings.

Good old English indeed.

 

[Wondercow]

[I won't be posting any more on this subject since it's rather pedantic and this isn't an English forum. The following is my opinion as a professor of linguistics.]

My statement did have a conditional clause in it. Conditional clauses don't necessarily have to have those words cited.

Hence the "etc." That being said, there are only a handful of others and "in the absence of" is not one of them.

At any rate, my point stands. We can assume that, in the absence of hard figures from Cook, that both the Apple Watch and Apple Music will be failures.

Not really; the above requires that only Cook can stop the Watch and Music from being failures. In other words, the success of both the Watch and Music is conditional upon no one other than Cook announcing the numbers.

'In the absence of hard figures from Tim Cook' is a conditional clause

It isn't, I'm afraid.

I have condensed it by missing out the verb

Which verb was left out that, when added, would make this overtly conditional? I am genuinely curious.

I could have written, 'if Tim Cook doesn't provide any hard figures in the future,' but I chose to shorten it for ease of reading.

And that would have been conditional. Without sunlight green plants cannot grow is also not conditional, though it too can be easily reworded into a conditional if.

 

[4jasontv]

Music streaming is already "free" in terms of data usage on Tmobile. If audio is a major usage for you, you can probably get by with a lesser data plan for less money, giving you wallet space to pay for a premium music service. (yes, I just implied that Rhapsody is not "premium")

No we can't. I use just shy of 10 GB a month per phone, and that is with the music removed. It has the music I want, I couldn't care less how you rank its status.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

[I won't be posting any more on this subject since it's rather pedantic and this isn't an English forum. The following is my opinion as a professor of linguistics.]


Hence the "etc." That being said, there are only a handful of others and "in the absence of" is not one of them.


Not really; the above requires that only Cook can stop the Watch and Music from being failures. In other words, the success of both the Watch and Music is conditional upon no one other than Cook announcing the numbers.


It isn't, I'm afraid.


Which verb was left out that, when added, would make this overtly conditional? I am genuinely curious.


And that would have been conditional. Without sunlight green plants cannot grow is also not conditional, though it too can be easily reworded into a conditional if.

I think you're taking the English language too literally.

The conditional clause I used did not have the familiar words you expect to see, but it was a conditional clause nonetheless. The word 'if' is not required to make it so.

English is a hard language to tie down, which makes it a pain to learn for foreigners, but a joy to use, due to the seemingly endless ways of describing things.

 

[rctlr]

Just blown my iTunes music budget this month on buying an album download for a band which are not in the iTunes Library.

 

[rdlink]

Not wanting to seem uncaring, but royalties, percentages, etc. are between Apple, the record labels and the artists. I am more worried about its effect on my pocketbook. And that's the way it should be.

To that end, I have iTunes Match. I'm wondering if that means I will continue to enjoy ad-free iTunes Radio. If so, I will definitely take a wait and see approach to Apple Music. And here is why: I tried Beats Music, and their interface was horrible. Confusing and kludgy. If Apple kept any of it I won't be that interested in using it.