iOS 9 is not the issue. The problem lies with the music app. To be frank, the awful UI, like everyone got to add to it, and no one controlled scope.
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Spotify Growing at Faster Pace Since Apple Music Launched Last Year
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iOS 9 is not the issue. The problem lies with the music app. To be frank, the awful UI, like everyone got to add to it, and no one controlled scope.
I do agree it would be great to be able to link something like a dropbox : onedrive / iclloud account to read music files on it.
However you wanted an option, you have it
As much as Apple Music's interface and bugs can sometimes bother me, Spotify's song limit and lack of iOS integration killed it for me. I love that I can download as much as I want with Apple Music and don't have to worry about a cap. (The same can also be said for Google Play Music)
Tim Cook said that they had 6.5M paid subscribers in October 2015.
Now they have 13M. 100% growth in 7 months is not bad!
Spotify went from 20M to 30M since last June.
But I agree with most of the comments... that regardless if the growth rate is 100% or 50%, the user interface and experience for AM needs alot of improvement.
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Now they have 13M. 100% growth in 7 months is not bad!
Spotify went from 20M to 30M since last June.
But I agree with most of the comments... that regardless if the growth rate is 100% or 50%, the user interface and experience for AM needs alot of improvement.
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Still like Spotify better, Apple Music it's not user friendly at this point. Apple should have Apple Music app, big mistake mixing iTunes with Apple Music. I am in the free trial with Apple Music, not impress yet! Not sure if I am going to stick around. Spotify still the winner at this point, sorry Apple.
Totally right there with you. Left Spotify a couple years ago because of this; not sure if it's still like this. So frustrating though, I mean why was it so hard to just add an album and listen to it??
Spotify is simply better. Spotify hands down has a better app, interface, and features added every couple of months. Not to mention the incredible slew of human made, hand-picked playlists that Spotify recommends to me based on my listening habits. There are those that swear by Apple Music, and that's fine. I'm delighted that they love it. But Spotify was already so far ahead when Apple Music launched that I don't know if Apple Music can catch up. The Apple that we used to know consistently was late to market, but always had a superior product. However in this case, Apple Music was late, but in no ways better than any of the competition. Apple Music is simply as good, or worse than the competition.
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FWIW Spotify now gives you a "Library" which pretty much works like iTunes/the default music app. If you like a song or album now, just hit "Save" and it is saved to your library, along with all of your other music. Of course, playlists still exist if you prefer that route.
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FWIW Spotify now gives you a "Library" which pretty much works like iTunes/the default music app. If you like a song or album now, just hit "Save" and it is saved to your library, along with all of your other music. Of course, playlists still exist if you prefer that route.
Did you see that article about iOS 10 having a redesigned music app? That's what I was referring to.
NO. Not even close. Tidal is better than Spotify. Plus their search actually works. I'm sorry but in my experience trying to locate a popular record on Spotify can be difficult. That's why I was glad to switch once Tidal and AM became viable options.Spotify is simply better. Spotify hands down has a better app, interface, and features added every couple of months. Not to mention the incredible slew of human made, hand-picked playlists that Spotify recommends to me based on my listening habits. There are those that swear by Apple Music, and that's fine. I'm delighted that they love it. But Spotify was already so far ahead when Apple Music launched that I don't know if Apple Music can catch up. The Apple that we used to know consistently was late to market, but always had a superior product. However in this case, Apple Music was late, but in no ways better than any of the competition. Apple Music is simply as good, or worse than the competition.
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FWIW Spotify now gives you a "Library" which pretty much works like iTunes/the default music app. If you like a song or album now, just hit "Save" and it is saved to your library, along with all of your other music. Of course, playlists still exist if you prefer that route.
This part of the article is not true:
"Spotify continues to operate at a loss due to expensive royalties and revenue sharing with music label partners, but the Swedish company expects to eventually become profitable through continued subscriber growth."
The loss is not due to expensive royalties, because we know royalties on streaming music is tiny. The company operates at a loss because it gives away its service for free in return for just a tiny bit of ad revenue. Even the premium level service is a cheap "all you can eat" price which means its most frequent users are paying pennies per hour of usage of the service. Apple is just as cheap to pay for "all you can eat", but it doesn't have the free portion dragging down its revenue.
So don't buy into Spotify's argument that content should be given to them even cheaper so they can resell it. Spotify needs to step up and charge for its service. Maybe economies of scale will save it or video or something, but I suspect it won't. It started its life giving away the service for free and it can't get away from that without losing huge numbers of customers.
"Spotify continues to operate at a loss due to expensive royalties and revenue sharing with music label partners, but the Swedish company expects to eventually become profitable through continued subscriber growth."
The loss is not due to expensive royalties, because we know royalties on streaming music is tiny. The company operates at a loss because it gives away its service for free in return for just a tiny bit of ad revenue. Even the premium level service is a cheap "all you can eat" price which means its most frequent users are paying pennies per hour of usage of the service. Apple is just as cheap to pay for "all you can eat", but it doesn't have the free portion dragging down its revenue.
So don't buy into Spotify's argument that content should be given to them even cheaper so they can resell it. Spotify needs to step up and charge for its service. Maybe economies of scale will save it or video or something, but I suspect it won't. It started its life giving away the service for free and it can't get away from that without losing huge numbers of customers.
Pandora is the best, hands down, no question, inarguable. JK. It's great we have all these services to offer competition. I went with GP All Access. It was good before, but when they added the family plan and augmented it with Youtube Red, it just cemented my decision. Hopefully they all get better and make my decision that much harder.I mean, that's purely a subjective statement... evidenced by the simple fact I find Apple Music to be the best service available in my own subjective experience. Before it, Google Play was an equivalent service... and then Apple came and bested them on price with the family plan. Spotify always had the worst UI and UX. And this update looks like they copied Apple Music's UI/UX... almost tab for tab.
These are services though, and it's fine to not like one and prefer another. Just wait for some insane person to come talk about how great Pandora is.
I tried Spotify but missed the For You of Music. The Discover part of Spotify the suggestions were crap, liked none of them. I really like the For You on Music, while not for everyone, I do like having music presented to me in that way, rather than having to think of what music to search for.
Another thing I didn't like about Spotify, was despite having the relevant settings on Extreme for sound quality, I found the sound quality to be inferior to Music. On the same album, the volume needed to be higher on Spotify than it did on Music, and I found Music had more detailed and just generally better quality sound.
Another thing I didn't like about Spotify, was despite having the relevant settings on Extreme for sound quality, I found the sound quality to be inferior to Music. On the same album, the volume needed to be higher on Spotify than it did on Music, and I found Music had more detailed and just generally better quality sound.
Ugh I feel like I'm in the minority, but I do *not* want five different apps at all. I really like that iTunes is my one stop shop for everything, I'd rather they just improve it than give me more apps to fuss around with.
Wauw, well said. Spot on unfortunately. You forgot one thing: A year ago in Europe (probably in the rest of the world as well), they increased all prices on Macs because the dollar was strong (or weak, dont remember the exact reason), but this meant that for exactly the same MacBook, customers would have to pay €150+ more...
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Considering they pay close to nothing to the artists I seriously question this business model all together.
Not sure if I missed it, but are these "new" Spotify folks paying subscribers or are they using the free service? The reason I ask is, Apple gave a free 3 month subscription, and when that ran out did they decide to try the free Spotify offerings? If so, once they realize what the free Spotify service is like, will they switch back to the paid Apple Music subscription?
Most of Macrumors commenters seem to struggle with basic English: Spotify is growing faster than before, not faster than Apple Music.
In fact, the opposite is true: Apple Music is growing faster. It will likely dominate the market in less than 2 years. Ecosystem and default are powerful, see Apple Maps crushing G maps on the iPhone.
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Nope.
In fact, the opposite is true: Apple Music is growing faster. It will likely dominate the market in less than 2 years. Ecosystem and default are powerful, see Apple Maps crushing G maps on the iPhone.
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What do people expect? They bought Beats by Dr. Dre...
They kinda bought into a demographic that doesn't fit well into what we know as Apple. They should have bought Spotify or Pandora... Not something by a notorious "gangbanger/thug".
Fall of the house of Apple:
Beats
Apple Watch
Non 4K Apple TV
No redesigned iPhone 7
MacBooks that are slower than iPhones
Believe me, I know there are plenty more examples but I'm tired.
Apple execs would do well to read more customer forums like this. Their current arrogance is both frightening and disgusting.
If Apple loses it original/loyal customers then they lose their voice. We are the ones who (traditionally) step up to bat for them in the public realm; in places they never hardly see.
Yet, I haven't been super enthused about an product since 2012...
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