And they will still have enough to buy the whole US. Canada will be just thrown in... You can keep the Mexicans.
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Apple in Early-Stage Negotiations to Acquire Spotify?
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And they will still have enough to buy the whole US. Canada will be just thrown in... You can keep the Mexicans.
It's a lot easier to just search in your current media player for a song and get the artists entire back catalogue than searching for individual songs on youtube. You can also get it to cache the tracks for a later listening on your hard drive. I think it's up to 10gb. not sure if that transfers to your mobile device or not. But it does the same in the app.
Nooooooooooo! Buy facebook, buy stumble upon, buy netflix but leave spotify alone!
Cant think of who you mean
I can already see a lot of retractions in this thread. A lot of the most devout Apple followers had completely destroyed spotify, some even comparing it to pirating , in the last thread. Now that Apple is rumored to want the service, these people are going to be calling it innovative
Cant think of who you mean
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If this is because of apples big piggy bank & there states based empire I find it anoying the services in Europe will get flattened so the states get the fingers in the pies
If this is because of apples big piggy bank & there states based empire I find it anoying the services in Europe will get flattened so the states get the fingers in the pies
There is also Zune pass. Coming to mac soon enough.
I'd loved free spotify when it first came out.
I cannot see this ending well for Spotify.
It will end wonderfully for Spotify. They know Apple wants to get rid of them and can afford to pay a lot to do so. They will most likely retire young.
It's the consumer (us) that will lose.
Because if you listen to a lot of music it's much, much cheaper (I was spending far more than £150 a year on music from iTunes before I started my Spotify subscription). The bit rate is also higher on Spotify and the quality is noticeably better than on iTunes.
On top of that, it has clients available for:
Windows
OS X
iOS
Android
Windows Mobile
Palm WebOS
Symbian
Linux
Another great feature is that your playlists automatically sync across all your registered devices: I don't need to worry about what songs I want to store on my devices: They all have access to all of my music all of the time
On iOS it integrates with AirPlay and the iPod controls so it's as seamless as using the native music player: I can think of a new artist I want to listen to, and be listening to their music within seconds through my sound system, all from my iPad.
I was never a fan of the concept of music streaming, but Spotify have really nailed it: It's a brilliant, brilliant service that I wouldn't want to be without now.
If Apple only buys it to shut it down there will be a lot of angry customers over here. Almost everyone i know uses Spotify and my friends as Uni say the same. I would imagine its the same for the rest of europe too. Europe generally isn't as Apple friendly as the US so a move like this would put off a lot of potential future Apple customers.
Posting this rumor helps Apple in what way? The essence of "early-stage discussions" is privacy. Public knowledge interferes with negotiation efforts.
No, you can't use the mobile apps without subscribing to the premium service. But you can still use the streaming service as long as you are online and you can listen to your songs, even from your iTunes library.
spotify is a game changer, its a whole new paradigm, i love apple products i have at least a dozen of them, but i hope apple doesn't go there, its so detremental to the evolution of the music market place, spotify has done amazing things in europe, helped record companies see how the sector will develop, i fear that apple will stifle this
I'll be incredibly disappointed if this happens.
I think it would make me drop my iPhone. By the time this happens (assuming it does), the complaints I have about Windows Phone 7 should be on the way to being resolved. Zune Pass is probably the closest thing to Spotify.
The best thing about Spotify IMO is that it's incredibly anti-Apple in terms of business model, technical approach, support etc.
As noted in the above post, they have a client for just about every platform out there.
If Apple actually kept the service running, what would we be left with? Mac OS X and "PC" (i.e. Windows and not Linux)? I don't think I'd want to keep paying for that.
I think it would make me drop my iPhone. By the time this happens (assuming it does), the complaints I have about Windows Phone 7 should be on the way to being resolved. Zune Pass is probably the closest thing to Spotify.
The best thing about Spotify IMO is that it's incredibly anti-Apple in terms of business model, technical approach, support etc.
As noted in the above post, they have a client for just about every platform out there.
If Apple actually kept the service running, what would we be left with? Mac OS X and "PC" (i.e. Windows and not Linux)? I don't think I'd want to keep paying for that.
Tell that to the hoards of people on their 3rd or 4th iMac and still haven't got a good one.
You have to admit, paying such a high price for a machine is a bit of a kick in the teeth when you hear Apple have $60bn in cash. Even more so when you have to send that machine back 3 or 4 times because it's faulty.
Back to something someone else said. Oil companies rip people off too, of course. Lots of companies rip people off. But this is an Apple forum. When I want to complain about oil prices I'll go to the relevant place. And one doesn't excuse the other.
This is the worst news I've heard all week.
Apple will ruin it.
I'm beginning to hate Apple to be honest. They're increasingly becoming control freaks. Give it a couple of years and you'll have to jailbreak your iMac if you want to use it as a proper computer.
Apple will ruin it.
I'm beginning to hate Apple to be honest. They're increasingly becoming control freaks. Give it a couple of years and you'll have to jailbreak your iMac if you want to use it as a proper computer.
Agree. Lets hope it doesn't happen.
If it did happen, I can think of two scenarios:
Worst case: Apple buys Spotify to kill it, just like they did to Lala.
Best case: Apple rolls Spotify into iTunes as a subscription streaming service. Even this scenario isn't very palatable, because iTunes is slow and bloated whereas Spotify is slick and fast and a pleasure to use. Its pretty sad when Spotify can stream music much faster than iTunes can play it off my own HDD
Hence the rumor from "well connected folks". It may also increase the ultimate price a bit.
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In 5 years time when you've spent £600+ and have nothing to show for it will you still feel the same?
I would personally rather listen to radio and use youtube to discover new music for free.
The £600 would buy almost 800 songs on iTunes or around 100 albums.
What regulations are these?
I'm not sure people actually know what they are talking about.
Apple doesn't operate in the streaming business.
It'd be hard for a court to rule that they are being anti-competitive when they don't even compete in that area!
I've spent thousands of pounds on 128kbps AAC files from the iTunes Store that only play on Devices that Apple approves.
Many of those songs I don't really like any more.
Buying music doesn't get you anything better IMO.
Even iTunes Plus isn't that attractive.
256kbps AAC?
Spotify has 320kbps Ogg Vorbis.
Why should I?
I can run Spotify on just about any platform and listen to those songs at much higher quality.
The DRM isn't the main issue, it's the comparatively low quality of the files.
Even if Apple increases the bit rate on the store, it's going to cost me to upgrade my existing library (and that was a lot for iTunes Plus).
If I buy something from iTunes now, it's always going to be the same quality. I have to back it up - Apple doesn't let me download it again for free. It will work on the same devices and with the same software.
With a Streaming service, it's no different to a cable TV package vs. buying DVDs/Blu Ray
When a new technology (like 3D or HD) comes along, I just buy a new box and subscribe to the new service. If I bought loads of DVDs, I'd have to buy them all again on Blu Ray.
I can't believe you bought that much DRMed music in the first place
I luckily only bought a few albums off iTunes in the DRM days