All this nonsense about number of subscribers. As always, Apple's goal isn't to be number 1 in any category. Often Apple ends up number one in a category simply because it blows away the competition, but that's not what Apple sets out to do. Instead, Apple focuses on a quality experience for its customers that also produces a good profit or adds value to its ecosystem, often both.
If Apple wanted to have its numbers soar, it could simply offer a free, ad supported tier like Spotify, but again, that's not how they operate. They don't want to offer an ad interrupted experience for music listening. Spotify, on the other hand, was created by venture capitalists who were focused on running up the numbers and then selling out in an IPO. That's why they ran up massive losses and created a broken business model for the company that lives on.
The public Spotify is now doomed with a service that, despite paying artists about half what Apple Music does, and having by far the largest number of subscribers in the world, can't raise prices to keep up with costs and make a decent profit. That's because music streaming, despite some people defending their "tribal" choice, is now essentially a "commoditized " product where they all offer essentially the same product, so most consumers will make their choice based on price.
Spotify can't raise prices, but they are competing against Apple, Amazon and Google, who can leverage their music streaming businesses as part of many revenue streams, which is why Spotify is desperately trying to get something going with podcasts, and why they are desperately running to the EU with a laughable claim that they have been hurt by the App store. Spotify is again trying to hold on in the hopes that someone buys them out and adds them as a "feature" to their line up, Disney maybe? as they are petrified at the prospect that Apple will bundle Apple Music with other services.
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Let us save you some money on your anger management classes- the Apple Watch has allowed you to use Spotify for some time, and recently Spotify finally released their own App for the watch to add more features.