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Kanye West Wants Meeting Between Tim Cook and Jay Z to End 'Beef' Between Apple Music and Tidal
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Oh here's a tech nerd on a rumor site whining about other tech nerds on rumor sites because they're agitated by the Macintosh slump.
Very effing useful.
Right, and few (if any) companies innovated and grew like Apple did in the "Steve era". That isn't happening under Cook.
He's riding the coattails of what Apple was. If you read and listen, Apple's consumers are becoming restless. Services over products. Making money? Yes. But for how long?
Uh...more than a few. And not just tech nerds if you read past the forums. Apple has more money than ever, but in a "stronger position"? Arguable. You can thank Steve Jobs for your last statement.
LOL i hope that was a jokeThe correct way to say it is: "give Jay his check now and stop trying to act AS IF you Steve."
As luck would have it, you're a radiologist, so you've got plenty of $$$ to buy them all ftw!
No, Kanye doesn't need to make more music, he just needs to SHUT UP! And he's definitely not a genius.
Actually it seems like all of his WB stuff is on iTunes and everything else is on Tidal. If they don't get a deal done then I will buy the music from Tidal since they do have a store. Definitely no subscribing because no way can I support Kanye, Jay Z and Beyoncé on a monthly basis.
My subjective listening "tests," which were me listening repeatedly to the three major streaming services on my hifi, placed Tidal last every time; it always sounded edgy and thin. Apple Music sounded best, and I've kept Spotify because of its overall UX. Deezer Elite through a modified Sonos Connect is the best 16/44.1 all around service I've listened to. OraStream and mp4sls is by far the best sounding service I've heard, but handicapped by their limited classical music catalog.
My point is that you might want to compare Apple Music to Tidal again and listen to hear if the qualitative difference is so meaningful and absolute that you must stay with a service you don't want to stay with. If you give professional music demos (risking grief for not using 16/44.1 Tidal), or listen critically with friends, or are using the MQA, then maybe you stay on Tidal? If it's just you and your day and your couch and your car, jump!
Sounds to me like JayZ is doing all the posturing. Calling to get in a room (in public), saying he would not drop his album with Apple ever, then relenting, and of course, Kanye West claimed that the schism between Apple Music and rival streaming music service Tidal is negatively affecting the music industry as a whole. Schism? Whole industry? Not relenting?
Firstly Apple has no obligation to buy Tidal, no matter the financial impact to the owners. If Apple were to become the owner it would be as everything else they do, be to enhance the customer experience, within a margin goal they have. That's part of how pricing will be determined. Also the existing revenues are almost the entire equation.
If they are looking to Beats as the pricing model, forget it. They got over modulated headphones set for rap (they could have done that), and almost all the price was to get the talent locked in for years.
Apple gets the Tidal talent through normal distribution channels. The owners are not likely to become valuable Apple employees shifting their existing and future profits (selling them) for the benefit of Apple's shareholders. They effectively formed their own label to bypass the normal record label meme. Now they have learned it is hard.
Firstly Apple has no obligation to buy Tidal, no matter the financial impact to the owners. If Apple were to become the owner it would be as everything else they do, be to enhance the customer experience, within a margin goal they have. That's part of how pricing will be determined. Also the existing revenues are almost the entire equation.
If they are looking to Beats as the pricing model, forget it. They got over modulated headphones set for rap (they could have done that), and almost all the price was to get the talent locked in for years.
Apple gets the Tidal talent through normal distribution channels. The owners are not likely to become valuable Apple employees shifting their existing and future profits (selling them) for the benefit of Apple's shareholders. They effectively formed their own label to bypass the normal record label meme. Now they have learned it is hard.
Oh man. I hope TC responds in the form of a highly polished, rap video in bed with Dre and a Kanye lookalike.
He really needs to get street on this, throwing lead out of a gat Cupertino style, West coast.
He really needs to get street on this, throwing lead out of a gat Cupertino style, West coast.
Kanye is so dope*.
* In the full traditional sense of the word.
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* In the full traditional sense of the word.
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He thinks Tim IS A cook somewhere.
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Not humble pie, that I can assure you!
Steve Jobs courted rap icons way before Tim. Tim bought beats mostly for Jimmy, not rap icons. And as much complaining about Tim I see on MR. No one can deny that Apple has been more profitable under his reign than SJ.
Looking like Kanye is about to go bottoms up once again. Needs some cheddar. 
Cook would be an idiot to give the green light to buy Tidal. You can be assured that if Apple does that, the entire music industry will slam the door shut on him and will ask the government to kick his a$$ for one reason:
MONOPOLY.
It IS colossally stupid to buy Beats and then Tidal both, and all the while trying to propose rate changes to force Spotify to comply. All this alone makes Apple a bigger a$$--le. They can't afford to have that kind of image with this ' My Way or the Highway ' attitude anymore especially unjustifiable with Cue around, who's been part of the problem.
Not only that, if Apple buys out Tidal, the TV industry will be more reserved and cautious and say ' F U Cook. No TV deals for you '.
I highly doubt the Tidal purchase has anything to do with the lossless audio stream quality and more to do with killing the competition and grabbing more libraries of albums. Why the hell would Apple want to do that when they should be FOCUSING on improving Apple Music and spin Beats Radio out as a separate app to clean up the UX.
The answer is NOT BUY! BUY! BUY! BUY! That reeks of laziness.
"To be the place where music happens?". Give me a break! The REAL place where music happens was MTV and they pulled it off masterfully in the 80s and 90s, far better than what Apple can.
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Pfft! Cook is not ' street ' enough to handle Tidal.
The biggest problem with Apple and their execs is because they have a " Valley Girl " mentality. Even Cook. Apple needs a real boss, EAST COAST godfather style.
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With the lack of proper grammar in that Tweet, you know there are a few dozen working for him for next to nothing hoping for the same.
The anount of money Kayne pays for security is unreal. Love to know how many Kayne upset tried to penetrate his security recently. I keep on thinking, if he doesn't keep his mouth shut, his money will run out and he'll end up like Jam Master Jay.
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You don't know how it works out west. Anyone tries to run Apple "EAST COAST godfather style" would have the butt handed to them.
Wrong. They don't NEED Apple because the jig is up and they already see through Tim and Cue's BS.
I have to disagree because east and west coast are different in thinking and style. From my experience, east coasters don't take crap. I was born and raised in a city that destroyed the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals and know how tough people are in that town. They certainly don't have that " Tim Cook " mentality. Now I live in the Northeast region of the US and still see an interesting parity of hardworking people and those who are laid back. An interesting parallel to Portland, OR and Vermont ( in some aspects ). But the Midwest was something else.
EDIT: I've seen gangbangers around in my old 'hood so I know how it goes.
My point is that the Apple execs have a 'valley girl' mentality and I don't think it's working. They don't have Mr. Jobs around anymore to restore order, focus and discipline.
Lossless audio is not a Tidal-first. Apple could easily have provided a 'lossless' audio service years ago… if it wanted to. But it's apparent it's not their priority to provide some hi-fi-audio lossless service.