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Apple's Upcoming Streaming Music Service to Incorporate Social Networking Tools for Artists
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This is baked into the iTunes store already. It's just up to the artist to utilize it. An example of someone who does is Ed Sheeran.
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Apple are totally not copying Spotify with this feature. Nope, not at all!
Somewhere I hope they take a note from Spotify on is their default dark UI. (Not the interface itself, which I hate. Just not blinding white).
I don't need social garbage embedded with my music app. Man, this new streaming service....its gonna happen on year 3000 at this pace.
Why spend billions at all? It's not as if Spotify's service is so amazing that a company with Apple's engineering talent and resources couldn't emulate it and/or surpass it.
Apple certainly didn't need to buy Beats to do it either. My guess is that Eddie Cue was in way over his head, panicked and convinced Tim to buy Beats so Eddie could have Iovine manage this project.
PING IS BACK! Instead making iTunes into streaming service they had to waste their money on Beats and still can not make it part of iTunes Match and now they resurrecting PING.
Someone hurry up and clone Steve Jobs.
Someone hurry up and clone Steve Jobs.
Apple it is okay a lot of people rather still purchase music and better not get rid of iTunes Match or else everyone will go back to Microsoft. Instead Apple make sure Beats is part of iTunes Match service for $25 a year.
Ha! Taylor Swift?! You mean when Kanye wants to promote Beyoncé outside of the Grammys?
Considering Apple wants to kill off ad-supported services for music streaming you should really compare this to a paid Spotify subscription. And that adds a lot more to the total package than just being ad free.
My thoughts on the matter is that if you are not interested in getting rid of the 'annoying teenage demographic ads every 15 minutes' by paying for Spotify (and getting better sound quality and offline sync/play as well) you probably won't pay for any other service either.
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Ping failed because it required you to run iTunes n the desktop.. It didn't work on mobile at all.. was @ss-backwards.. Who wants to do social in iTunes, the worlds worst clunky music program?
This time it will be built right into the music store on the iPhone or iPad in music streams for fav artists while your browsing..
Makes a hell of a lot more sense. I doubt it will use the term Ping..
They may not name it at all, just make it part of the iPhone / iPad experience..
Probably best..
Didn't Steve jobs say you want to own your songs and store them on your iPod??.. I don't like what's happening, dang millennials trying to get everything for free and not have to pay for songs...what happened to the joy and pride of owning your song for 99cents, or better buying a cd, knowing you will always have it, storing in safe place, and ripping into iTunes and syncing with iPod for the go???
Spotify tells you about upcoming concerts and allows you to buy tickets. It's not iTunes. Because it's better than iTunes.
Here here.
Like watches with gimmicks & no security.
Wham, Apple's hitting out of the playground now.
Ping failed because it required you to run iTunes n the desktop.. It didn't work on mobile at all.. was @ss-backwards.. Who wants to do social in iTunes, the worlds worst clunky music program?
This time it will be built right into the music store on the iPhone or iPad in music streams for fav artists while your browsing..
Makes a hell of a lot more sense. I doubt it will use the term Ping..
They may not name it at all, just make it part of the iPhone / iPad experience..
Probably best..
I don't know. I think iTunes is great for managing, playing back and buying music. I don't think it's clunky at all. In fact, I would go so far as to call it slick. Now as a sync tool... that's a different story.
I agree with you about enabling social on mobile. Also, it sounds like it won't be some gimped version due to a last minute negotiations failure with Facebook.
Because it will cost 10 times more than building it themselves and using their clout, financial might and hardware/software platform to distribute it. So, why should they buy Spotify? Seems it would be a crazy bad idea actually.
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Give me a break. SERIOUSLY. A broken down User Interface, better!
Spotify does that. And if you 'follow' an artist you will get updates when/if they are on tour in your country - and of course every time a new release is available from that artist.
A lot of artists also sell merchandise / physical media / whatever through their main artist page on Spotify. All this goes through a third party though, you can not pay directly through Spotify for tickets or merchandise/vinyl/limited editions and so on.
Edit: Added a couple of screenshots (from the desktop version) showing concert listings and the possibility to buy physical stuff. Even more interaction with the artists is always welcome though, but it is not like this is a completely untrodden path when it comes to current music services. Another factor is how much time an artist is willing to spend micromanaging stuff like this - there are already more than a handful of platforms, most of them with different interfaces, that artists are expected to update today.
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They got a product/brand that generates enough money to pay for itself within 3-4 years, seems like a no brainer buy regardless of any other considerations. In fact, seems like an incredible bargain compared to Spotify which will probably take 25 years to pay for itself if anyone was crazy enough to buy it.
They'll mostly just incorporate what Beats is doing (like most of the new music app). In Beats, when you go to an artist, you see all their music, and the "essentials" are noted. You can also follow them to keep up with their updates. It's not much different than the artist page in iTunes.
Everyone is overblowing this.
Everyone is overblowing this.