His post contributed much more to the conversation than yours, which basically does nothing but complain about another post you find useless.
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Google to Unveil Streaming Music Service at Google I/O Tomorrow
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His post contributed much more to the conversation than yours, which basically does nothing but complain about another post you find useless.
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But Spotify is not a part of iTunes. That is the whole point. This is why Apple is rushing for their iRadio service. Offering it as a single solution is certainly advantageous.
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99% of people don't care about file size or bitrate. I'm pretty sure most people are happy with the 320 kbps mp3 files they get from Google Music.
Exactly - same holds true for Amazon and Google.
Who cares that similar services exist? Ecosystems all would benefit from having a streaming service that also gets people to make purchases
I was under the impression that iRadio will be a paid subscription service? I do not see how that would be advantageous over a free Spotify account. It would not be so to myself, as clicking on another App to purchase takes no time at all.
Slightly off topic, will Apple now seek to ban this App and steal it's name [in the UK at least]?
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/iradio-uk-free*/id491998442?mt=8
I liked that it builds a playlist and then you can swipe away songs you don't want to listen to. Spotify doesn't have that correct?
Although if you can't really listen offline - not sure how excited I'll be.
I think that I saw the pin button to download and make it offline
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I don't see the advantage. If you have a track/album on Spotify why would you want to go buy it on iTunes. Same track/album, same quality. Complete waste of money. I use Spotify to discover new music then I go buy the CD if I like the album enough.
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I hear this comment a lot but it's just not true.
According to the The British Phonographic Industry & Nielsen US in 2012 digital downloads accounted for just 30% of all albums sold in the UK and 37% of albums sold in the US. In both countries one the biggest rises was in the sale of Vinyl records. Yes Vinyl.
A lot of people over the age of 21 do care about music quality.
Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...ompany-Billboard’s-2012-Music-Industry-Report
That's what I figured.
So even though the revenue from streaming may be greater than the revenue from downloadable sales... the profit from streaming is non-existent.
In other words... it looks like selling music is a sustainable business... while streaming music is not (at the moment)
I wonder how long Spotify can continue... especially since Google can afford to take a loss on a service like this.
You don't see the advantage? Not everyone has a Spotify account. But everyone has a iTunes account so when iRadio hits iOS, it will certainly get a bigger adoption rate and it is easier for users to make purchases.
you don't need to be in their heads. Actions speak louder than words. Nice try though
Why would you want to purchase the track/album in iTunes when you already have it in your streaming library? It makes no sense. iRadio will be about as much use as iTunes Genius is. Complete waste of time.
If I have Spotify I don't need iTunes. That's the point your missing. Buying compressed music from iTunes is a dead duck when you can stream all the music you can ever want in the same quality for a fraction of the cost. The operative words there being "a fraction of the cost".
I bet 90% of those people downloading iTunes content are not downloading music anymore. It's apps, books, new films, etc.
Apple has failed to stay ahead of the curve on this one and they are going to have to do something different if they want to compete in music going forward. iRadio is simply an attempt to shore up an out dated business model in the hope that it can continue to generate profits for a while longer. It's not new, it's not innovative and it's not going to work.
So Pandora is dead as well? Just because it doesn't fit your use case doesn't mean anything. What you are confusing is iRadio will most likely have a free version. This would entice lots of people to purchase songs since with iRadio you can't play specific songs.
It's basically a radio service... random mix of songs, up to five skips per hour. There are paid versions to remove ads, and maybe skips. For what it's worth, Pandora seems to have the most efficient compression algorithms in my experience. It's only going to use up a couple dozen megabytes per hour, as opposed to other services I have tried which use hundreds. Also, something you are forgetting, there are plenty of people who are on unlimited data plans on various different providers. I was never trying to convince you to like or use the service(s). You stated you don't understand why anyone would use them. Hopefully that question has now been answered for you.
Since you live in UK, you are aware that mobile phone operators (except maybe Three) offer limited mobile data? 1GB or 2GB per month mostly! So you would rather use that data allowance streaming music on the first 10 days? I do purchase only music I like and i know it's mine, stored in my device so I can listen to it whenever and wherever I wont without having to worrey about mobile coverage or data usage! I think that is the reason people like to buy their own music.
There is a little thing called offline mode where you actually download the song to your device and you can listen to it whenever and wherever you want
Geniuos! One problem out of the way! How about thousands other new songs that I try? Will they eat my data? I do it with TubeBox everyday (can watch the video to) through wifi conection and when i say believe me there is almoust any song that was ever recorded. And i don't have to subscribe to it!
Will that replace my own music library? Never!
Are you self-aware that all you do is to post emotional and personal responses, instead of posting something relevant that adds anything to this discussion at all?
I said that my words are pure speculation (which should be pretty obvious, since iRadio isn´t officially released, yet) based on the marketing name iRadio and the fact that Apple obviously wants to direct more sales towards their iTunes music store and therefore it makes sense that they don´t compete with their own offerings. Also, why should Apple need to compete with Spotify, when they have the largest music catalogue? They don´t. They have completely different selling models and iTunes is a lot more profitable than Spotify, already.
And from my perspective, iRadio is already dead as I see no use for it. There are countless digital radio stations, why should I use iRadio? What is the incentive?
If you´re not able to refute some of that or post some of your opinions on this and instead only want to attack people on forums, you wasted your time, because I stand by what I said. And I am also completely free to word my sentences the way I like. I certainly seem to have sparked your interest, which was my intention.
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