Spotify already announced 3 initiatives in March.
https://artists.spotify.com/blog/spotify-covid-19-music-relief
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Apple Music Launches $50 Million Advance Royalty Fund to Make Sure Independent Labels Can Pay Artists
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Spotify already announced 3 initiatives in March.
https://artists.spotify.com/blog/spotify-covid-19-music-relief
It’s all about the shareholder which is all
About $$$. Ecosystem has nothing to do with this conversation. Ethics? Lol. There are zero ethics in business
Sorry. I mean, major labels and large distributors of indies receive a minimum amount of revenue from their clients over a set period of time (1, 2, 3 years...), paid in advance or arrears, not refundable regardless of the performance of the catalogues concerned. They also pay their artists and distributed labels an advance. They also negotiate better revenue sharing terms with platforms e.g. Apple/Spotify than if the artist/indie label was going to the platform directly. But of course they take a cut to account for that work (+marketing/distributing/exporting).
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well, Universal Music (and their indie distributor Caroline) surely have a better negotiating power vis a vis Apple than any small indie label. They won’t just accept the standard Apple license agreement. Like how Netflix famously negotiated a lower app store fee.
Great, run with that if it makes you happy. No denying that a motivated employee id a better employee. But Apple does NOT love you or care about you more than any other company. They care about your wallet. Nothing else.
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No cynicism. Truth or reality? Yes
Some people root for apple and hope others fail. It’s that simple. Same goes the other way to. It’s kinda sad to be honest.
Why let a company that wants nothing from you other than your money, have so much power in ones life? Enjoy the toys. The Apple ecosystem is great. That’s why I use it.
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So it was Apple's "real strong affinity" for its customers which caused it to foist defective keyboards on its fan base for almost four years? I shudder to think what Apple may have done if it had a real weak affinity for its customers
Still one of the most satisfying typing experiences of my life - it didn't work out in durability unfortunately but I knew what they were trying to do. The 16" MBP keyboard just reliable meh.
I base my buying decisions on the actions and business model of the company.
I'm pro-capitalism so I don't agree with companies that give away products for free but recoup those costs through advertising; I believe it to be highly anti-competitive as it basically makes it impossible for anyone else to compete unless they too have very deep pockets to be able to afford to give away their product for free.
I believe you shouldn't be permitted to 'cross-subsidise' different parts of a business like that as it massively distorts competition.
I therefore don't support companies or products that engage in that business model. I discourage others from supporting those business models too.
There is a huge difference between brand preference (we all have our preferred brands) and cheerleading or rooting for a multi-billion dollar company and against another, as though one’s own self-worth and identity is tied to that company. I’ll stand by my comment that the “haha” comment is nothing short of bizarre. Would the poster rather have Spotify and all other music services fail? If so, that would be an incredibly short sighted and stupid position as the cost of the music service would increase exponentially.
I see more brand cheerleading on this site than I do almost anywhere else. There are many, many posters on here (we all know them) whose own self worth seems to be tied to Apple. Just strange.
I see more brand cheerleading on this site than I do almost anywhere else. There are many, many posters on here (we all know them) whose own self worth seems to be tied to Apple. Just strange.
Nice anti google rant. 🙄
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No idea other than it’s all about $$$$$
I don’t use products or services from any company that’s supported by advertising. And if I have to then the adverts are blocked or skipped. Google just happens to be the biggest and most egregious culprit. They don’t have to be the bad guy, they could pick a better business model where no advertising is involved.
So true. I work for a Fortune 500 company in the automotive data and financial information services sector. We have witnessed first hand hundreds of "mom and pop" automotive repair facilities hurting over these last 4 weeks. We are responding with free goods, erasing amounts previously due, offering tangible ways that they can weather this storm, and encouragement. We love our customers.
They are an advertising company. That is the business model.
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And they could just as easily pick a better business model. They could quite easily sell their products and services for money and get rid of the advertising altogether.
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Why would they. Their business model is worth billions of dollars. What is better about apples business model. Yes it is more valuable at this time but better. Not really.
Again nice anti google rant. They do the same thing as Apple does. Apple collects data and sells it too. People here believe the bs about how they don’t. They sell anonymous data same as google
Google wouldn’t because it’s in their interests to make tons of money and crush all competitors.
I would because I would like to see more competition.
Apples business model is better because the product sells on merit and not that it’s free.
I’ll agree with you’re agreeing. But it’s false that Apple’s revenue model is the same as all others. If you’re a $ to Apple, you’re the actual product to the likes of Google and FB, and as such, for sale. I’ll go with Apple.
Im sure they would, but I’m looking at this from a consumer perspective, not a stock holder or CEO.
Hence why I say Apple has the best pr dept in business. They convince people that they care about them instead of their wallet
I know Apple don’t care about me in the slightest. But I definitely want to send the message that I am cool with their business model and business practices by buying and using their products over the competition.
the brand cheerleading, THC for clarifying your position and statement, is nothing at era now here or when it comes to Apple. Prior to 1998 THIS is exactly Apples marketing since ‘74 , call it guerrilla marketing by Jobs himself. It was a way of doing business to get brand loyalty and presence. And for a while it worked. This eventually began to fail, starting with the Lemmings commercial.
"Each advance will be based on the label's past earnings, and will be recoupable against the label's future earnings"
I wonder if a recoupable will actually happen though.. If artists are found getting paid more whole users in future are not streaming their music,, why would they give the excess back to Apple? They would just say "I need it more"
We all know music companies are greedy, so that will be their position, i reckon
I wonder if a recoupable will actually happen though.. If artists are found getting paid more whole users in future are not streaming their music,, why would they give the excess back to Apple? They would just say "I need it more"
We all know music companies are greedy, so that will be their position, i reckon
That’s awesome! I stand corrected. Hopefully people who donate to the overall effort will do it from this page, since these are the only donations Spotify will match:
Maybe amazon music, YouTube, Tidal and others will join in, if they haven’t already.
Spotify could also help out artists by increasing their royalty rates closer to Apple’s. (And YouTube’s rates were abysmal last I checked.) That would be a major win for artists. Hard to see that happening though, since Spotify has such high cumulative losses 🙁 Hopefully they’ll dig out of the hole at some point.
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