European Regulators to Review if Apple Acquiring Shazam Will Significantly Hurt Competition

Goodbye cross platform. Hello wall.

 

What effect, the story tells no reason for what is behind it.

 

Base on Apple and its previous purchase, we will know that Apple will stop make Android version of Shazam. Which will negatively effect competition.

I will say though, if this transaction go through, one of the condition is that Apple will continue support Android version of Shazam.

 

As far as I'm aware, Apple has continued to make Apple Music (formerly Beats One) for Android available.

 

Yes, but you can always use SoundHound.

 

well. Only one of Apple application available on Android and it is directly benefiting Apple. Making Shazam available on Android makes no benefit for Apple. Therefore, Apple could stop making Shazam for Android as well.

Think about Apple's purchase of Buddybuild. They shutdown Android support after the acquisition. Same thing could happen to Shazam as well

 

There are other options out there such as Soundhound.

 

Spoiler alert: No, it won't significantly hurt competition.

It's going to continue to identify songs, not having a button to open the song in Spotify afterwards is not exactly an international antitrust crisis.

 

competition in the important industry of naming that tune. Quick, someone name a competitor to Shazam today!

 

It could become fully integrated and not exist as an independent app.

 

Uh, no thank you. That's not really necessary.

 

That's only because it benefits themselves though. The Android app is just an afterthought at this point.

 

So a business who makes a decision that benefits themselves. Never heard of such a thing after Apple should say screw shareholders then.

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Soundhound

 

If the whole reason for them buying Shazam was to funnel more people into Apple Music AND Apple Music is available on Android then... well I'll let you do the math.

 

SoundHound works noticeably better for me. It is amazing to me that SoundHound can correctly identify a song even when I hum it in a very poor manner including portions with outright errors and omissions because I cannot remember it correctly.

 

Based on that I just downloaded it and I can affirm that it very much does identify a badly hummed track. Astonishing!

 

competition in the 'what is this song' market?

an industry of free apps that has generated no revenue?

 

It's a gateway app to music services. It's not the apps where the competition is, it's where they take you to when you want to buy the song you've just ID'd.

 

The idea that people can't be bothered to take an extra few seconds to type the identified artist or song name into their preferred music subscription service does not warrant an international antitrust investigation.

 

Europe and Britain are lucky to have the European Union looking out for their interests.

 

It’s true. SoundHound is just better.

 

Just hope that Shazam doesn't end up like what happened to the original Siri's trajectory..

 

For people who care less about Apple Music and will not subscribe to Apple Music, but still want Shazam, what now? I am sure as hell Apple will can Android version after the transaction.

 

You didn't do the math, it was very simple math too.

I'll do it for you:
Apple Music exists on Android, there is no reason for them to kill off the Android version of Shazam because it has the potential to get them more users for Apple Music ON ANDROID

If they ever decide to get rid of Apple Music on Android, then you should be worried - but there has been no indication of that so far.

You're going to lose buttons on Shazam that link directly to other providers besides AM - that's it - you'll have to bear the inconvenience of typing a song name into Spotify on your own or use another service like SoundHound. Apple spent $400 million for this privilege, deal with it.