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Dr. Dre's 'The Chronic' Also Available Exclusively on Apple Music
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Bingo. It's like exclusive games for consoles..... People will need multiple streaming services.
The majority of people. It's in the name
Dr. Dre, Pharrell and Taylor Swift are great reasons to not sign up for Apple Pay.
The more I can avoid accidentally listening to that garbage, the better.
The more I can avoid accidentally listening to that garbage, the better.
Who cares about all these exclusives.
You want me to switch over from Spotify Premium?
Make a deal with AT&T and Verizon to where streaming from your service doesn't hit my data usage.
I'm in day one, baby!
Put a big fat AT&T logo on the front if you want.
You want me to switch over from Spotify Premium?
Make a deal with AT&T and Verizon to where streaming from your service doesn't hit my data usage.
I'm in day one, baby!
Put a big fat AT&T logo on the front if you want.
It's a great album. I love being able to have access to it. I grew up listening to 2Pac, Biggie, Dre, and Snoop Dogg. It's nice to have songs from The Chronic to go on my playlists.
Not all terrestrial/satellite radio stations have the same library. So what's the difference???
Your' "tune" will change when your top 5 favorite artists are on "exclusive" sites.
I realize you are just trolling, but none the less...
Yep, capitalism has some really stupid limitations.
Making money is better than producing what people need and want.
He didn't spend 6 years in evil medical school to be called "Mister", thank you very much.
1.) Radio is free
2.) Satellite radio is a monopoly for the most part.
You don't pay for each and every station on satellite radio.
There is a big difference.
That's a bad analogy. You don't have to pay for individual terrestrial/satellite stations.
Or, yanno, just buy the album. You don't *have* to use a streaming service for your music.
So you've admitted to pirating music?
I don't necessarily view it as greed. I just think Apple is making every attempt at getting at the forefront in an already established market, but one with tremendous growth potential. I think there's both short and long-term goals. Getting exclusive deals are short-term goals, and changing the overall music industry (again) is the long-term goal.
Unlike Spotify and the like, Apple Music and Beats1 will be seamlessly integrated into millions of devices around the world. No extra apps to install. No extra accounts to create. It will just "be there", like turning on the radio in your home. That transparency is not quite there yet with existing services.
Nobody knows how long these exclusivity agreements will last. Dr. Dre's agreement may just be an experiment to see how it goes, and then the music will be expanded to other services.
this is great news! i already had this album on vinyl, and cd, and converted into high-bitrate mp3s, but now that i can stream it in substandard compressed quality with the convenience of the cloud and Apple Music, i can throw all those antiquated formats away! hooray!
Television (in the US) isn't fragmented. (Except for a few highly specialized channels)
It's not like I can only watch ESPN if if have Time Warner.
And only History Channel if I have ATT
And Animal Planet if I only have DISH
There are a few instances in television but its more experimental deals that backfired on someone.
Example that comes to mind is, NFL Sunday Ticket is a deal the NFL regrets big time, they are loosing tons of potential revenue.
Maybe that will be the case with exclusive deals at some point we can only hope.
Ultimately if the artists make less money by going exclusive,chances are they won't make the same mistake twice.
Exclusives still suck for the consumer in the end, I just wish Spotify and Apple would battle for the consumer with things like user interface, sound quality, product integration,product features, instead of we have artist "blah blah" and they don't.
It's not like I can only watch ESPN if if have Time Warner.
And only History Channel if I have ATT
And Animal Planet if I only have DISH
There are a few instances in television but its more experimental deals that backfired on someone.
Example that comes to mind is, NFL Sunday Ticket is a deal the NFL regrets big time, they are loosing tons of potential revenue.
Maybe that will be the case with exclusive deals at some point we can only hope.
Ultimately if the artists make less money by going exclusive,chances are they won't make the same mistake twice.
Exclusives still suck for the consumer in the end, I just wish Spotify and Apple would battle for the consumer with things like user interface, sound quality, product integration,product features, instead of we have artist "blah blah" and they don't.
Well, you're obviously not running a business or having any revenue/margin obligations at all. It's legitimate the artists also try to maximize their money like you try to do.
Welcome to the free-market economy
And at the end, the artists are gonna end up suffering from it. People are not gonna start subscribing to many different streaming services to be able to freely listen to who ever they wanna listen to. Imagine Premium channels like HBO, Showtime etc. being only available with certain Cable Network.. This would be a complete failure!..
If they go forward with this Exclusively crap, I can see 2015 being the year where Music Pirating came back strong! Good luck with this one Taylor Swift.
No kidding. Whats makes this especially ironic is that with TV, Apple's goal is supposedly to UN-splinter the world of video content.
Dr. Dre works for Apple and Taylor Swift is in cahoots with them. The only other thing I can see being absolutely 100% exclusive to Apple Music is The Beatles. Everything else should be available on every service.
Of course anyone can just go buy the album. I think his point was more that this trend is ultimately a negative for the streaming music services if it only gets worse.
I think you exaggerate the ease in the "seamlessness" over the other providers. You still need to sign up for the account. Installing an app requires maybe one additional step?
As much as I love Apple, it's because one thing benefits them and one doesn't.
At the end of the day, Apple is still a big corporation, that puts itself 1st.
They just aren't quite a flagrant about it.