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Apple Pushing for $5 Beats Music Subscriptions as Spotify Debuts Discounted Family Plan

fa8362 said:
I wouldn't pay 1 cent per month for it. There's free music everywhere.
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Amazing how many people on here are quick to berate you, even though you didn't make any reference to stealing music.

And I am sure they all come from a 100% model background where they have never, ever, downloaded a copyrighted mp3, for free. :rolleyes:

And FYI - Spotify is free (with Ads) as well you know...
 
Unlimited streaming music for less than it costs to purchase four songs per month via iTunes (assuming the standard $1.29 per song)? Sold.
 
WBRacing said:
Amazing how many people on here are quick to berate you, even though you didn't make any reference to stealing music.

And I am sure they all come from a 100% model background where they have never, ever, downloaded a copyrighted mp3, for free. :rolleyes:

And FYI - Spotify is free (with Ads) as well you know...
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Mondays are inherently full of butt-hurt. Plus people are biting their nails for 8.1 so let's give them a pass for now.

D.
 
This is hilarious. People get their pants in a fit and going off the deep end for Adobe 'selling' Photoshop and Lightroom in a $10/mo subscription package, yet they happily fork over $10/mo to listen to music, while all you have to do is turn on the radio and you can listen for free.

And the biggest kicker is that for most people using PS and LR, it will make them money while the money spend on streaming music is just gone.

Personally, if I want to _listen_ to a record, I will buy the cd. If I want background noise, I will turn on the radio. There is no way in hell I am going to pay for that.
 
Once that spotify premium plan rolls out, it's game over for Apple

I already pay only $4.99 a month for premium, now I can add family for $4.99 each?

Too good
 
fa8362 said:
There's free legal music everywhere.
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Tell us where.

Seriously. I must have about 500 songs that were legal and free, but "everywhere" is hugely exaggerated.

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macduke said:
I was unaware that most families don't mind sitting around listening to faux orgasm sounds with grandma on Christmas morning. My apologies, we are clearly prudes.
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You're right. Not if it's fake. :cool:
 
Padmini said:
This place is getting ridiculous. Not one articles follows with a discussion of what the article is about...it diverges into something completely unrelated and pointless.
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MacRumors is just a place for Android Trolls to hang out.

They have this vicious resentment of everything Apple and want to 'enlighten the sheep' on why the 'sheep' are so wrong about everything. When people get this mentality that others are non-human sheep, it's hard to talk or reason with them, because they 'know' they're right and anyone with a different opinion is wrong.

Check out Bose message boards for all the anti-Bose people, Republican or Democrat message boards, anti-Walmart message boards, anti-Harley Davidson message boards. These are filled by so many people who 'know' they are right and don't want people to be 'fooled' by Apple, Bose, Walmart, Republicans, Democrats, Harley Davidson, etc. and that's what all these message boards turn into.

MacRumors cares about page hits more than a good discussion, which is why none of this will be moderated.
 
beany boy said:
So what happens to dummy's like me who paid $99 for a year last month?
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Apple is pretty good about giving refunds in situations like this. For instance, last month when the cost of additional iCloud storage was lowered, everyone who had already paid for a year got a refund for the portion of the year that was still remaining (my wife was one of them, so I know for a fact that this happened).
 
throttlemeister said:
This is hilarious. People get their pants in a fit and going off the deep end for Adobe 'selling' Photoshop and Lightroom in a $10/mo subscription package, yet they happily fork over $10/mo to listen to music, while all you have to do is turn on the radio and you can listen for free.

And the biggest kicker is that for most people using PS and LR, it will make them money while the money spend on streaming music is just gone.

Personally, if I want to _listen_ to a record, I will buy the cd. If I want background noise, I will turn on the radio. There is no way in hell I am going to pay for that.
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The fact that you compare radio with a subscription service is laughable. Do you honestly think it's close to being the same thing? Can you listen to the exact song you want, whenever you want? Online or offline? Without ads? Change songs or curate a playlist? Listen in 320 kbps? Using a 20 million catalogue at your disposal?

I don't have a comment regarding your analogy on PS and LR, but comparing radio and subscription services is just ridiculous.
 
Many people need to educate themselves about what these streaming services are good for. So much ignorance.
I have a 20 million+ track music library on my iPhone that updates with new albums every day. You can't beat that.
 
Still no Apple streaming service in Europe. Spotify is taking Apple's marketshare in Europe, and it will be difficult to get it back.
 
Imory said:
The fact that you compare radio with a subscription service is laughable. Do you honestly think it's close to being the same thing? Can you listen to the exact song you want, whenever you want? Online or offline? Without ads? Change songs or curate a playlist? Listen in 320 kbps? Using a 20 million catalogue at your disposal?

I don't have a comment regarding your analogy on PS and LR, but comparing radio and subscription services is just ridiculous.
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Let me rephrase then. Hopefully it will be clear what I mean then. If I want to listen to music I find worth listening to, I will buy the album. If I want to hear music while I do other things, I will turn on the radio. If I want to discover new music that I may not know, I'll turn on Spotify Free with a random list.

I don't mind spending money on music, I do mind spending money just for the privilege of hearing it.
 
macduke said:
Yeah but some of us hate ads. There's nothing like streaming Christmas music on Pandora on Christmas morning and having a mature-rated Trojan condom commercial full of questionable innuendo and "noises" blaring over the speakers. The awkward silence as teens, parents, and grandparents sit around trying not to make eye contact with anyone else in the room is extremely fun and anxiety inducing. If only that would happen again this Christmas. Alas, my brother-in-law now pays for streaming so we're good to go.
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So, in order to preserve your Christmas bubble of unreality, you would turn a blind eye to the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases? :eek:

OK, I was just kidding up there. :p
 
throttlemeister said:
This is hilarious. People get their pants in a fit and going off the deep end for Adobe 'selling' Photoshop and Lightroom in a $10/mo subscription package, yet they happily fork over $10/mo to listen to music, while all you have to do is turn on the radio and you can listen for free.

And the biggest kicker is that for most people using PS and LR, it will make them money while the money spend on streaming music is just gone.

Personally, if I want to _listen_ to a record, I will buy the cd. If I want background noise, I will turn on the radio. There is no way in hell I am going to pay for that.
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Imory said:
The fact that you compare radio with a subscription service is laughable. Do you honestly think it's close to being the same thing? Can you listen to the exact song you want, whenever you want? Online or offline? Without ads? Change songs or curate a playlist? Listen in 320 kbps? Using a 20 million catalogue at your disposal?

I don't have a comment regarding your analogy on PS and LR, but comparing radio and subscription services is just ridiculous.
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Somewhere in there is the logic to call it utterly ridiculous to spend $10/mo on PS and LR, when there are so many free alternatives out there. From GIMP to MS Paint! True to a point, but not any less ridiculous as calling free radio equal to subscription radio.

The part about making money off of PS and LR, while you can't do the same from Beats is unfair. Can't make money from HBO Go, or Netflix either..

However, I think the point the original post was trying to make is that it is funny to see people complain about PS and LR, when $10 isn't all that much for what it does. But then he insulted Beats users for spending their money on the service.
 
throttlemeister said:
Let me rephrase then. Hopefully it will be clear what I mean then. If I want to listen to music I find worth listening to, I will buy the album. If I want to hear music while I do other things, I will turn on the radio. If I want to discover new music that I may not know, I'll turn on Spotify Free with a random list.

I don't mind spending money on music, I do mind spending money just for the privilege of hearing it.
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At the end of the day, people prefer different models. Some don't mind paying a permanent fee of having access to all the music you want, while others have no need for it. One doesn't exclude the other, but it's pretty clear that streaming is in and buying albums is getting smaller.
 
throttlemeister said:
Let me rephrase then. Hopefully it will be clear what I mean then. If I want to listen to music I find worth listening to, I will buy the album. If I want to hear music while I do other things, I will turn on the radio. If I want to discover new music that I may not know, I'll turn on Spotify Free with a random list.
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Occurrences of first person singular pronoun: 10. Thank you for making this explicit. This is why people had problem with your previous posts-- in actuality, no one else really cares how you live your life.
 
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