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Report Claims Apple Considering Apple Music Price Drop
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Hmmm, that's odd. Doesn't seem to work for me:I checked it before I posted to make sure.
Unless I've missed a hidden setting somewhere? Would be great if anyone else can kindly try it out as well.
Silicon Valley VC firms just valued your brilliant business model at $6B. It should also take about 200 employees to support your zero revenue company.
Because they want it to do even better? Because with increasing costs of tangible necessities, like gas and food, an intangible, unlimited extra can keep those with strained budgets by lowering their price? Because there's a new tier coming at the $9.99 level?
You may be correct that it's not doing well, but you logic is deeply flawed.
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Thanks Olly
Disabling Connect seems to do the trick but that means I also lose the ability to use the "View in iTunes" button altogether - It doesn't disable Apple Music but the open-in-iTunes action altogether. I was hoping for just Apple Music to be disabled when I click on "View in iTunes" and to stop some of the pesky iTunes pages from automatically loading up iTunes and view the webpage version instead.But anyways, this is going off-topic. Thanks once again for the suggestion.
I too share this statement, although I will further clarify for myself that I've never liked ANY music subscription. No, I've never tried any of them, but when I drive long distances, I sometimes pass through emptiness where signal may not be that great (if even there at all), so a streaming service can flub. Also, using data eats up more battery, heats up my phone, which makes it more likely to overheat.
Also, my phone is an LG G4. While my post above applies for other music services, IIRC, Apple Music requires an Apple Device anyways.
I agree. I went on a road trip last week and streamed at least over a GB of data at high quality but only used about 250 MB of data.I agree with this part.
I have no idea what you're talking about here.
On Apple Music and Google Play you can download the songs to local storage to play without a connection to the server. I do this for my playlists so I can listen to them on the airplane or road trips where I lose signal.
good to know. However, for me, YouTube still has better music selection, like video game soundtracks.
Well the music was way better back then now mainstream music is just noise.
I think on an Android phone, YouTube videos can be stored locally, too. On my loaner Galaxy S7 I managed to save the "I want an IPhone video" to the phone. I'm not sure if I saved it to the SD card or the internal storage.
Sure. I understand it was quoting the article, but I don't see why it's relevant to the rumour.
I'm keeping this ball, now get off my lawn!
Wow! Even better. I get that music subscriptions aren't for everyone, but for big music fans like me, I think they're the best deal going in entertainment. I pay $15 per month for Apple Music, and everyone in the family can download virtually any music they want to hear. I may pay a little more than I used to for albums (but not much) and I get to check out much more material, plus my wife and kids can listen to whatever they like as well.
If it goes down to $12.99 for a family subscription, it's hard to imagine a time when I'll drop it. When I look at what I pay for satellite TV and the time that I spend using each service, Apple Music is already a bargain.
If it goes down to $12.99 for a family subscription, it's hard to imagine a time when I'll drop it. When I look at what I pay for satellite TV and the time that I spend using each service, Apple Music is already a bargain.
Yep, I don't mind the ten bucks.
it comes off the grocery budget and off my waistline.I believe it saves me money on making bad choices for classical music that I want to own. I do eventually buy the CDs of classical works once I decide which set I prefer. I'm not springing for something like an opera or a requiem mass or some box set of sonatas, etc. without hearing the whole thing and maybe more than a few times at that. I'll sometimes keep two sets of something like JSBach's cello suites as a download from Apple Music for months before I will (or can, moneywise) spring for a CD of performance by the artist I've finally decided that I prefer.
Also, just because I like the classical stuff and am picky over it, that doesn't translate into being willing to spend all of any day only listening intently to anything for the purpose of choosing a performance to buy. That would get really tiring after awhile, whereas letting downloaded music of other genres play in background while I go about my day is just casual entertainment.
Although I don't like streaming Apple Music in any genre, I do like downloading all of some album of non-classical music I'm curious about and then over time realizing I really only keep going back to three or four tracks -- which I might then buy off iTunes since I don't mind 256AAC for that stuff. If there's something I like and it's flagged as album-only then I get the CD.
So again I'm one of the ones who would be annoyed if there were no longer an option to download subscribed music: I'd give it up in a heartbeat.
Everyone??? £9.99 in the UK, €9.99 in the rest of Europe - that would mean Europe are subsidising the US, not the other way around.
Granted, probably less so since Brexit.
Same here....
More afraid of "missing out" than actually enjoying the services I think.
It's about competition. They are dropping it to the same price point as Amazon's. Competition is good for all of us. It puts some pressure on Amazon to (maybe) compete even harder, possibly lowering their pricing tiers even more, and the cycle of price wars repeats.
Wow i couldnt disagree more. I love Amazons UI. I wish apple had something similiar. The way the lyrcs play is fantastic.
In your case, yes, it doesn't make sense. For me, most of the music that I listen to these days are artists and songs that I haven't purchased and that were discovered through the app listening to my original music. The new discoveries are priceless to me...
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Different markets have different songs so no we aren't subsidizing China. If the pricing in China really is less than $20 then even that is a miracle if people are actually paying. After all, China is the king of bootlegging and pirating.