Indeed. Maybe I'm just a bit of a music nerd, but I like to buy LP's of albums I love and collect them. And with my digital library I prefer to have a hard copy of the MP3's on my phone and laptop at all times. Mind you I wish Apple did away with 16GB minimum storage size...
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Apple Music Now Has Over 10 Million Subscribers After Just 6 Months
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Indeed. Maybe I'm just a bit of a music nerd, but I like to buy LP's of albums I love and collect them. And with my digital library I prefer to have a hard copy of the MP3's on my phone and laptop at all times. Mind you I wish Apple did away with 16GB minimum storage size...
If Apple Music offered $5/mo subscription for college students, the decision would be much harder. Until then, I'm sticking with Spotify and my $5 bill. Also Spotify's playlists and "Browse" sections are just leaps and bounds better than Apple's "Discover" tab IMO.
I feel utterly sorry for those people who got suckered into paying for Apple Music all because it comes built-in to the iDevices and who don't know any better.
Herp.....
There was already 6.5 million PAID users in October, so this 10 million is NOT people on the free trial... it's people that thought it was a good enough product to pay for it each & every month.
De derp.
Integration is huge. Apple has built so much goodwill among consumers and the number of people who will subscribe to Apple Music and who have never even heard of Spotify is probably bigger than most of us think.
The problem is that free streaming services may be in trouble, at least when it come to Spotify (there are court cases) and its losing money.
It's in the top,ten of most used apps on all iPhones. Your argument makes no sense given the circumstance of a new service. You could make the same argument for tons of apps with your logic. We're comparing it to other services and the fact it's only been around 6 months and achieved what it took Spotify years to achieve.
Apple created the DAP market and they lag behind with hardware that can actually handle delivery of lossless music to my ears. While they allow AIFF (their format) they refuse to support FLAC (the largest compressed lossless format), the DAC can't even play it back through the headphone jack.
This isn't about "apple caring about few people that want lossless music", its about locking people into another subscription for something so they won't own it. You can't charge people on a continual basis if they own all the music already.
Also, the group of people wanting higher quality music is steadily growing. Vinyl sales are rising year over year.
I am heavily invested in Apple for a lot of things.... music is where they are losing me.
I highly doubt "Apple is often too proud to admit its failings and fix something"... That's pure baloney. Apple Maps is a glaring example.
They certainly didn't "acquire" Beats and bring in some the top music industry talents out there to somehow show "them" how its done..
Geezus. C'mon people. Ok Apple Music needs work. Got it. Do any of you really really think it's a finished piece of work in Apples eyes????????
Really???? Really???
Damn! That's a LOT of sorry. =)
10 million sorries?? Wow.
Lol, I don't like Fords... but I just don't have it in me to feel "utterly sorry" for everyone that owns a Ford. That's just way too much effort on my part. I guess I just don't have as much feels as you!
However... when it comes to things that you know, actually matter, and aren't simply a person's free choice of what similar luxury item to spend their extra cash on in a capitalistic economy, I can muster up some caring (you know like for people that are poverty stricken, or rape victims or something).
I guess everybody chooses differently what they care about & what to spend their sorrow on though.
When it came out, I'd agree with you. But any problems I had with it have been fixed completely in the past 6 months. What doesn't work for you?
If Internet Explorer cost $10 a month to even browse the web, it would be a comparable example.
However, it didn't, so your example sucks.
All you've proven is that you haven't got a clue.
I don't know why everyone is so against Apple Music. I never used any streaming services before and was converted to Apple Music via the trial (exactly how these things are intended to work). I think it's a great deal.
And it being the default won't make people pay for it. Seriously. Being preinstalled guarantees nothing for a paid subscription service. But from your posts, anything Apple is bad to you.
It takes some kind of loser to knock what others do so that they can feel good about their own decisions. Those are the people who I feel utterly sorry for.
I think Apple really needs to work on their discovery algorithms. If I start a new station from a song within half a dozen songs it's veered so off course you wouldn't guess what the original song was. Pandora on the other hand sticks to the genre, but ends up repeating the same artists over and over. Not sure which is worse, new artists I don't really like or same old artists on repeat.
True numbers will come out when all the free subscriptions run out. And after the "rebate" on all the Beats Headphones from Xmas end as well. Once people cancel the free subscription and remove themselves mid year, true number of subscribers will be more realistic to determine.
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Still haven't tried Apple Music, but I've gotten really into Amazon Prime Music in the past month. I decided to finally give it a shot and I really like it a lot. Sure it doesn't have as large of a selection as some of the others (especially with extremely new music), but it's actually pretty complete, plenty large enough for me, and it's essentially free (since I already have prime).
As an aside, I've also been using amazon prime video more recently. Same story as above, just replace Apple Music/spotify with Netflix. Considering how I'm paying $4.17 a month (student discount) for a spotify, netflix, and 2 day shipping service.... can't beat it.
As an aside, I've also been using amazon prime video more recently. Same story as above, just replace Apple Music/spotify with Netflix. Considering how I'm paying $4.17 a month (student discount) for a spotify, netflix, and 2 day shipping service.... can't beat it.
Apple Music pales in comparison to the competition as an apple fan I want to adopt and accept all of there ventures but they have made it hard with apple music..... I wonder if these numbers are based of of current subscribers or ones they had and lost....food for thought!