It's NOT expensive for the tech it has.
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It is expensive for the tech it doesn't have.
Yeah not gonna happen.
It almost sounds as though they don't actually understand what Shazam is. Like they're assuming it's another music streaming service.
The EU rightly does this all the time, and it is about protecting their citizens from US companies
I don't understand how this is a problem. Shazam isn't a streaming service; it simply identifies songs. I guess Apple could engineer it so that it displayed songs only on Apple Music and tried to steer users to buy it if they don't already have Apple Music. But I'm sure in that case another app would come along to fill in the gaps.
We can say the same about your biased opinion![]()
The EU rightly does this all the time, and it is about protecting their citizens from US companies
Liquid Metal 2.0I can’t see any logical reason for this aquisition other than to hurt the competition in which case it’s bad for us all.
Biased against dopey free market interference with no clear point? Guilty.
My thoughts exactly, protect the interests of the members of state.The EU sure seems to have a problem with companies trying not to waste their customers' time. I'm sure all of this has NOTHING to do with Spotify being an EU based company.![]()
The EU rightly does this all the time, and it is about protecting their citizens from US companies
Screw the EU. Brussels is a power mongering Oligarchy. They piss and moan about others, yet make no effort toward self reflection.
28 Nation States all fighting continuously for the same pot of Euros. Just wait until the simmering Nationalism in Europe really starts moving. The EU is a failed experiment only being held together be the greed and dependency of each Nation State.
Once finial hardship hits the EU and Brussels can no longer buy cooperation, it's over baby.![]()
The horror! A company trying to convince users of a competing product to switch to its own! We cannot allow that!
Isn't that the point? I'm for Apple + Shazam
Not sure why they're even looking into this. They're not forcing Spotify users to switch to Apple Music. But they might have data on what Spotify users like to listen to—data users freely gave to Shazam by using the service and Apple would have access to. This is literally Google and Facebook's entire business model—they spy on users and use that information to target ads at them to get them to buy goods and services from companies that pay Google and Facebook and yet they allow them to operate as if nothing is wrong? And I'm sure that Google and Facebook's data troves are much more detailed and aren't anonymous. Not sure if Shazam is currently anonymously collecting data but you can be sure that based on the extensive lengths Apple goes to keep user information private that they will do the same when they take ownership.