She pulled her music from Spotify, period. I'm a Premium subscriber and her music is not on there.
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Apple Reverses Course, Will Pay Artists During Apple Music Free Trial
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She pulled her music from Spotify, period. I'm a Premium subscriber and her music is not on there.
I'd think it would be evidence that she WAS standing up for the little guys. If she doesn't release her album on Apple Music, that means she wasn't just trying to ensure that she was paid royalties.
Personally I don't think Jimmy & Co. were worth it and Apple doesn't need the revenue/profit stream from Beats hardware. Google didn't need to spend $3B stand up a decent streaming music service and I don't think Apple did either. I look at a streaming music service as something Apple needed to do but not something they should be focusing a lot of energy and money on. The subscription service isn't going to make Apple a lot of money and they're selling record numbers of devices without it so it's not a driving factor in whether someone buys an iPhone or not. I'd rather Apple most of their energy elsewhere.
That's because Apple has lost it's way. If they didn't see this as a PR disaster in the making, then yes, they are a lost and misguided company churning out buggy, half baked software and OS's with the guidance of Tim Cook.
Actually, it was a matter of hours between Swift's letter and Apple's reaction, which makes it very unlikely that Apple reacted to her letter. I think they were reacting to the general publicity snafu that this whole thing was turning into. To make the change, they had to change the contracts with the record labels. Contracts always have to go through legal departments and legal departments work slowly.
Whatever Cue tweets then doesn't matter. He won't tweet the meeting minutes of the internal meetings of Apple management. He tweets whatever looks good for Apple.
When the company starts really losing money. Until then, those who call Tim Cook or Eddy Cue incompetent come out looking pretty clueless.
That's redundant, since you slyly defined "the end" as "Apple doing the right thing."
A more objective response would have been "They did the right thing, eventually."
It's not. It's just another bad album like most new music these decades.
We'll have to agree to disagree.
thanks for the update; I was wondering whether this would change your mind.
"Eventually" seems like it took a very long time. It doesn't seem objective at all. If you measure from Taylor Swift's open letter it was hours.
Eventually (a few hours later), Apple did the right thing. Doesn't work.
Yes, I also feel that Apple should just stop paying people altogether to make their products cheaper.
There will be zero revenue during the first three calendar months of the service, so there would be nothing to divide. Apple is throwing free money into the pot to cover the artists' share. They might be assigning $9.99/month value to free-trial customers, or they might be using a fixed amount or some other basis. It's also not clear whether this is just a temporary policy to cover the initial three months or so, or whether this will be a permanent feature to cover future new customer trials.
Revenue isn't the problem. They have cash reserves that will keep Apple going for a hundred years or more.
People have speculated they'll become the next Sony. Profitable but much less relevant. The Beats deal and Apple Music keeps them relevant.
Swift could care less about small artists. This is just her label asking for more money. And its the labels that have been screwing over artists since the beginning of time. No one can force an artist to put their music up for free as long as said artist owns the rights to their music. If you sign to a label, and the label decides it suits their interests to give away your music for free, then tough cookies.
Yep.
That $3 billion for Beats looks like a complete waste of money.
Apple post-Jobs are making many dubious moves.
Do people really like Taylor Swift that much? It seems a lot of people on here are swinging from her nuts.
They're idiots when they do that too. Speaking of crying, posted any videos on Youtube lately? Should I be leaving Taylor alone?
She has many fans and many who dislike her. That's what happens when a woman not named Beyoncé has power.
They ran it by the big publishers, who were okay with it. It's when the got to the indies that the pushback came. I don't know any company that consults 100% of their partners before they make a move-- usually you just talk to the big ones, who are less likely to leak to the competition.
Her album sales say people do like her.
Personally, I don't think I would recognize her if I saw her on the street, or if I heard her songs. But I'm admittedly out of touch with what's popular in music. Apparently, so are you.