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Report Claims Apple Considering Apple Music Price Drop
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Yes. And some of us even pay premium prices for vinyl records from time to time. Because we're just that nuts.
While I agree with the AZ music app, I suggest taking another look at AZ Video. I've found it to be better than Netflix these days for a few reasons - first, the actual player (ipad) is more robust than Netflix, working faster and smoother, with skip-forward and skip-back ten second buttons. Second, their selection of movies and video seems better than Netflix lately. Netflix's streaming movie selection is sorely lacking lately, especially for relatively recent movies. as a recent example, AZ streams the last two Hunger Games movies, whereas NF has neither. My overall point is, if you have Prime, take another look at AZ video, at least as an additional source for content.
Care to share what life improving venture you plan to use that spare $5 a month you got freed up for? I can only imagine the extravagance. Perhaps a mid-day coffee or does that lack imagination?
Apple Music/iTunes. Lifted out of the main body of the article.
Perhaps Eddy is hoping more people will sign up for AppleMusic if the intimation of vanishing downloads is there?
I'll allow it.
What I really want is a 500GB iCloud option for $4.99/mo. Even $5.99/mo would be fine. There used to be one and then they took it away. Now I have to go from $2.99/mo for 200GB up to $9.99/mo for 1TB even though I only use 215GB.
What I really want is a 500GB iCloud option for $4.99/mo. Even $5.99/mo would be fine. There used to be one and then they took it away. Now I have to go from $2.99/mo for 200GB up to $9.99/mo for 1TB even though I only use 215GB.
I'm sure there will be other companies still offering digital downloads who will be happy to take your money. Otherwise, these things are still widely available and often work out a lot cheaper than buying from iTunes...
I miss the days of albums, rather than singles. Especially concept albums.
They also need to allow family plans without forcing us to use the entire family-share shebang. It's possible that I want to share a music streaming subscription with my family, but I do not want us to all share one billing credit card for apps and other tv/movie purchases.
My point was merely that people are terrible at budgeting, and most can't see the relevancy of change here and there in the bigger whole (generally).
It's the same when someone try to sell something for "the price of a coffee/pizza", as if A) I actually spend that much on coffee/pizza and/or B) if this had no value in terms of social/life quality and is needless expenditures (after which we can hyperbole ourselves into lengthy philosophical discussion on materialism).
To get back on track: would I switch from Spotify to save $2? Probably not. But if I sat down and budgeted, and found that if I changed service providers for music, video, phone, coffee beans, and pizzarias I could save a non-negligible amount of money without an overall loss of quality of service (and this is important, because what matters in a certain "price-bracket" is not just the price, but the price/performance ratio), I would do it.
This is not deflation. This is consumerism.
I am. I’m sincerely interested in the mentality of people who think the going rate of an insane amount of content on demand should be no greater than $5 a month. Anything above that is exorbitant and is money better spent elsewhere, like maybe 5 items at the dollar store. I don't know. You tell me what could be done with that saved $5.
If the music industry stops the production of vinyl or CD's that will be a sad day.
For some reason I don't see Apple shutting down the ability to download a single song or complete album for a very long time.
(Yes, someone already replied, but I have to as well.)
You don't understand the appeal of streaming music because... you never listen to music? Or you never get tired of the music you already own?
Streaming music has accounted for 90% of the data I used in a month in the past. That was just over one gig of data usage.
You can't watch TV on a plane either; should you cancel your cable or satellite service? Nobody said it was available everywhere, all the time. Simple physics wins out on occasion.
Even on my free streaming services, I'm allowed to skip songs I don't like.
Speaking of which, I am one of Pandora's worst / best customers. I've used their service for years and years now, and have always relied on the ad-supported model, never paying a dime of my own money to use the service.
I think this may be true. Has anyone realised when you click on an iTunes music/album on the web browser and click on "View in iTunes" it now automatically takes you to the Apple Music page for that track/album instead of the iTunes Store version where you was able to browse, preview and purchase them individually? Sometimes even just clicking on an iTunes link would do this as well.
It seems like wherever you go, Apple are trying to push users towards Apple Music instead of the iTunes Store and I'm starting to believe in the rumours of the death of the iTunes Store.
It does, I've disabled Apple Music in the iTunes Preferences and when you click on an iTunes link it loads up the Apple Music version. Try it yourselfIt doesn't do that when you've got all the Apple Music features turned off.
You don't need to find another way to "own" your music, you can just buy a CD and own your music! No internet, no revoked licence, just enjoyment.
Other than music on demand, what else is on your self-entitlement manifesto? But I get it. Music production and distribution costs $0, and even millions times $0 is still $0. So where does anybody get off charging you to listen to it.
Django Reinhardt. Krypteria. Primal Fear. Etta Baker. The Birthday Massacre. Esquivel. The Mermen. Blank & Jones. Beats Antique. The Qemists. The Cruxshadows. Goldfinger. The Young Dubliners.
All performers from wildly divergent musicals styles that I'd never heard of before finding them through Pandora. I don't actually know how many of them can be found in Apple's service, but considering the amount of time I've spent building and refining my channels on Pandora's free / ad-supported service, I don't know that I'd care to find out.