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Spotify Continues to Grow Faster Than Apple Music Thanks to Free Tier
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I know it's crazy, huh? A thread that's about Spotify has comments talking about Spotify. Whodathunkit?
What causes you to believe that?
Spotify's financial statements suggest otherwise - i.e., that its royalty and distribution costs for its ad-supported tier exceed its revenues for that tier. And that's not taking into account the expenses which are accounted for on a company-wide basis - e.g., marketing, administrative, financing.
Spotify is still losing money. 100 million free accounts doesn't help pay the increasing cost of royalties.
Spotify's Your Daily Mixes are freakish at picking what I want, gives me lots of great options to just throw on.
I had a 2 year premium subscription that came with a cell phone plan and it ran out a couple of months ago. I don't want to spend the $10 a month but I'm seriously considering it.
They're having a promo right now which is 3 months of Spotify for 99 cents. Not sure if it applies to your account with the cell phone deal, but you can check. The promo ends the 26th of this month.
Paying customers are clearly not growing as fast as Apple's, otherwise they would have bragged about that figure as well.
Basically, they pay more money to rightholdrs for a booming free tier, while the paying customers don't grow as fast as they need to grow to have at least a chance of profitability in the future.
This is a worrisome press release for Spotify.
Basically, they pay more money to rightholdrs for a booming free tier, while the paying customers don't grow as fast as they need to grow to have at least a chance of profitability in the future.
This is a worrisome press release for Spotify.
I find this comment to be interesting because it reminds me of some other Apple products.
Ideally, one would probably want both usability and aesthetics, but given the choice between the two, I would go with usability.
One thing that I think Apple has struggled with lately is the usability, and ease of use of their software. It is not as intuitive as it once one. I find myself constantly having to look up online how to accomplish simple tasks on the iOS, Mac OS, and tvOS. It didn't use to be this way. Well, at least not for the iOS and Mac.
This also reminds be of the Netflix app on the ATV3 and the ATV4. The ATV4 Netflix app is very aesthetically pleasing when compared to the ATV3 version, but the usability of the ATV3 version is much better than the forever scrolling on the ATV4 version. Also, the ATV3 version gives a lot more useful info.
The ideal app would have both, but I prefer usability over aesthetics when it comes to apps. I do not use Apple Music, nor Spotify, but maybe I will look into Spotify's free tier just to check it out.
Spotify doesnt allow me to upload my songs to my spotify account/cloud. Therefore apple music is better. Simple as that.
Apple should expand to non-Apple devices like Playstation and Android, if the servers can handle it. Apple needs a lot of time to get some services right, Apple Music seems to be one of them.
Few days ago I cancelled my Apple Music and returned to Spotify, I used an iOS App called SongShift to move all my list to Spotify. Spotify offers better recommendations, long playlists, songs starts playing immediately, cross fade between songs, desktop App is much better than iTunes.
No. You just have to use another control method for Spotify. You aren't "Walled in". Sheesh!
Spotify it's a better than Apple Music, the quality on Spotify it's way better. Even with music from the 70's, 80's and 90's, Apple Music quality it's horrible. You can tell the difference between the two services on the spot, that's is my 1# reason I am keeping Spotify. Not counting the interface it's so simple to use.
Couldn't agree more. While I like the UI of Apple Music, they continued to recommend the same music for me.
Spotify on the other hand does a fantastic job at recommending new music/bands that I are along with what I listen to. I can live with the dark UI as long as the playlists and music recommendations are superior to what Apple has.
As in basically EVERYTHING on Apple's iTunes server? Haha you must have a very large range of musical interests. I'm willing to bet you could probably go just about a lifetime and still not hear every song twice. Now that would be a crazy statistic.
Having used BOTH services extensively, there is just so much that Spotify does better I cancelled my Apple Music subscription. The benefits to Spotify far outweigh those of Apple Music. Spotify offers better software for iPhone and Mac, better streaming options, longer default playlists, user curated playlists, and provides better information on artists sharing abilities, and music suggestions. I'd be up to trying Apple Music for a THIRD time in the future, but as a die hard Apple fan who usually uses only Apple products, my money is on Spotify in the long term.
Yes! Older music FTW! Can't stand this new crap nowadays. There's a few modern artists I like, but that's just about it and all their music can be found on both services.
Sure, if you think so.
Apple's only got half as many paying subscribers as Spotify, but Spotify's "bubble" is gonna burst ?
By your logic, Amazon's bubble will burst too, seeing it took them 20 years of not turning a profit before reaching black ink. Spotify's on course to turn a profit in half that time.
Spotify's revenue grew more than 50 percent, to $3.3 billion last year, according to the company's latest financial statement. The company has committed to spending more than $2 billion in payments to record labels over the next two years.
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Way to go MacRumors. Tell half the story, leave out the parts that don’t fit the editorial “Apple is doomed” agenda. Spotify’s revenue grew to $3.3 billion BUT Spotify STILL lost $610 million overall. Spotify is not Amazon and cannot continue losing money for much longer.
Most of the people that have premium Spotify don't pay the full price (deals with carriers), or only have it because it's zero-rated by the carrier…
That "argument" that Spotify's UI is better than Apple Music is pure… well… let me post this here…
