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Spotify Announces 75M Active Users, Raises $526M Following Apple Music Debut
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I'll be using it for sure. I wish you can "turn off" all the other stuff in the app and just use the My Music portion of it. But I guess Apple has incentive for having For You, B1, and Radio staring you in the face every time you open the app.
Yes, competition is good. It will push Spotify and Apple to bring the best for both ends: Listeners and the Artist.
Apple is great at simplifying the user experience. And I must say, being both a Spotify and Apple Radio member, I like what i saw.
The 24/7 Radio is a great way to discover new music ! I hope they also cover underground artists.
Connect is another advantage Apple has over Spotify. (it will keep the Fan and Artist close to each other, creating a unique experience and connection).
$10/month is reasonable, especially if you discover great content.
The big advantage Apple has is they now have the Streaming and the buying experience.
Apple is great at simplifying the user experience. And I must say, being both a Spotify and Apple Radio member, I like what i saw.
The 24/7 Radio is a great way to discover new music ! I hope they also cover underground artists.
Connect is another advantage Apple has over Spotify. (it will keep the Fan and Artist close to each other, creating a unique experience and connection).
$10/month is reasonable, especially if you discover great content.
The big advantage Apple has is they now have the Streaming and the buying experience.
Does this mean that regulators should go after Apple, like they did go after Microsoft?
I am really happy with Google Music, but will try Apple Music, too
Speaking of Amazon, I wonder if they will also try to get into the streaming "space"... they seem to want to compete, service-for-service, when it comes to media consumption.
HobeSoundDarryl
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It's not embedded yet. So who knows? Microsoft's actions basically slaughtered Netscape. The legal forces might wait to see if Apple's actions similarly slaughter established competitors.
And regulators are already looking into a related topic in which they are trying to confirm if Apple tried to persuade the labels to effectively kill the free subscription options from Spotify, etc to prop up the appeal of Apple's new offering. 2 state and 2 federal governments are already in play. See: https://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/04/apple-urging-music-labels-ditch-free-spotify/
Being able to stream the WHOLE Itunes library already is great, but there are inherent flaws to iTunes: it's a desktop software, it's very slow to load both pages and songs and the interface is nowhere near as practical and efficient as Spotify.
Curious to try it though.
And Pandora still exists? Who uses this crap website with a very limited and crappy list of songs that you can't even chose or use outside of the US? This website needs to die already.
Curious to try it though.
And Pandora still exists? Who uses this crap website with a very limited and crappy list of songs that you can't even chose or use outside of the US? This website needs to die already.
I know the "pandora sucks" statement is subjective and I'm sure many people agree.
I know for me and my wife, we still prefer Pandora when it comes to "radio" listening (station of music based off an artist we input). Spotify still lacks in this area for me. I will actually use iHeartRadio for "radio" over Spotify as well. But Pandora still has a place for us in our music listening rotation. But we only pay for 1 sub to Pandora and share logins. We pay for Family Spotify Premium and will give Apple Music a try when it goes live.
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I doubt they won't allow it. If they don't allow multiple devices per Apple-ID I can't listen on my iPhone, Mac and/or iPad. What could happen is that only 1 device per user can play concurrently, which comes down to 6 users per family. + seeing as it requires family sharing and the ID is also used for contacts, photos and what not, you won't just 'lend' your ID to others. Who knows maybe you will be allowed to use multiple devices at the same time per Apple-ID?
That's why they don't offer for you to do that because they know you would turn it off. Turn the power on.
I think what you meant was you hope Spotify, Pandora etc go belly up so that Apple controls the entire music industry. Maybe Tim, Phil, Eddie, Angela and company could start a band. What could possibly beat Apple Executives on Apple Radio?
[/QUOTE]Amazon has Prime Stations, and Echo also has a wide variety of streaming services integrated into it, such as Pandora and iHeartRadio. For me, Pandora integration with the Echo has been absolutely fantastic since it makes Pandora even easier to use, if that were possible.
I don't quite understand the hate Pandora gets (beyond the whole starving artists argument). It's no fuss to use at all, not to mention lightweight and "just works".
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Correct. Spotify does not have Pink Floyd.
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that is better than student. I'm all the way in. Delete spotify (free)
HobeSoundDarryl
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I think what you meant was you hope Spotify, Pandora etc go belly up so that Apple controls the entire music industry. Maybe Tim, Phil, Eddie, Angela and company could start a band. What could possibly beat Apple Executives on Apple Radio?
That's right. In fact, why don't all business except Apple be shut down? Why don't we raid the treasury and Fort Knox and just give Apple all of the money, maybe go wage world war if necessary to try to force all other countries to do the same. Then, as we starve to death, the last one of us still alive can come on here for one final post: "Mission Accomplished!" All hail the Apple.
Let's see, Launch on june 30th.... punches numbers into calculator... I'd say Thursday, Friday at the latest.
Well I like free but i want quality first. in streaming service will not let you listen the song you are dying to listen at that moment of time. I like free but can listen to crappy audio quality and everyone knows you will have to pay for it. I love and love and love spotify extreme audio quality it is so crisp and blow your mind. I drive Acura which has the most innovative Audio system, if any one one drive Acura ( I am sure many of you do )
search 2 artist Blue man Group and Queen live at Wembley. it will make sense that quality matters not freebies.
In any way if I want, I can have Spotify free for years, the only thing I have to do that make one free email acc a month and sign up 30 day premium spotify ...... ha ha ha. I have done this for 2 years......
Since a ton of ios and android users will take advantage of the free 3 months, breaking 100M users will be a piece of cake...wonder if Apple will report how many users they have after the promo expires for the initial wave of sign ups.
The last article I read said something like this:
In 2014 Spotify brought in $1.2 billion.... but they spent out $1.4 billion.
Clearly they have no problem generating revenue... but profit isn't happening. They are spending more than they make.
And here's the bigger problem: adding more users isn't helping.
Spotify's biggest expense is the music itself... in the form of licensing.
So... the more people who listen... the more it actually costs Spotify.
They definitely have a problem with scaling.
Sure... they have 20 million paying customers... but how many of those jumped on the 3 months for 99 cents deal?
Basically... there are users who are only paying 33 cents per month... but who are listening to the same music that costs Spotify a ton of money. The hope is that they'll become $10 a month customers... but that's not guaranteed.
They might decide to become free customers instead.
But Spotify's 55 million free customers clearly aren't paying the bills either.
Ouch.
And Spotify had these problems long before another high-profile music service was announced.
What a mess.
Perhaps, but I pay half of what Apple will be charging, so it will have to be a really compelling case for me to pay 100% more for their service over Spotify.