Horribly wrong! I hate Spotify with a passion and it's for this one main reason: Spotify gives about $0.003 - $0.005 per stream while Apple Music hands out around $0.01.
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Spotify Lauds $2 Billion EU Fine, Says Apple Has 'Muzzled' Streaming Music Services
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Horribly wrong! I hate Spotify with a passion and it's for this one main reason: Spotify gives about $0.003 - $0.005 per stream while Apple Music hands out around $0.01.
No way, if that was the case the EU would investigate why they are starving the musicians!
There won't be much competition. Many startups die in EU due to regulations.
Maybe apple could reduce the price for Apple Music to 4,99€ for a while. Will be a hard price to compete for Spotify.
If one would want to go full internet dweep one could say at least Spotify dos not support terrible Labour in Chinese factory’s and in rar earths being mined. But who’s counting. In the end it’s us buying and most won’t stop.
They are, probably, the most powerful technology company on the planet who’s been going hard at anti-consumer practice in recent years. Pleased the EU is tackling it, they’re the only people who have the chance.
oh, the hypocrisy coming from spotify is just astonishing! It would be nice if Apple could find a way to ban them from the world wide store and leave them EU only. 
yeah, instead of punishing the competition, they should look what to do to attract talent and grow IT sector in EU . But the only thing they know what to do is to punish and fine. This will lead to nowhere.
A lot of us used Spotify on PC, before having iPhones. In those days nobody was really buying an iPhone and I’m not sure if there was an app at all. It didn’t need the iPhone to be popular. Nor did it need Android for that matter.
Apple intentionally nerfs web apps so that would not really be an option.
Every musician I know also hated iTunes, and now Apple Music. What’s your point?
As someone who works in the IT Sector in Europe, we are doing just fine.
I agree. Spotify sucks. Their app sucks on the iPhone. The last time I tried it was in 2018 and it was buggy and awful on my iPhone and also on Mac. No thanks.
I'd rather use YouTube Music. Currently using Apple Music though. I dont understand people that pay for Spotify.
Before EU rules, Apple was constantly adding functionality to Safari. It recently added push notifications so it absolutely would have allowed Spotify to be able to implement its core function to stream music.
Now that Apple is forced to allow third party browser engines, Apple is axing PWA due to security issues. Thanks to EU.
At least Apple Music pays more royalties on average to artists.
I'm not saying you are not. My country has few unicorns a well. And I have friends working in IT living in million euro houses with many expensive cars. But you can't argue that EU silicon valleys are not on the same level as US. Unless I missed some latest numbers?
You replied to me but ignored what I said. Spotify has two services. One is a free ad-supported radio service where listeners can't pick individual songs. The other is a paid service where subscribers can choose individual songs. Royalty rates on the former are lower, and are set by the music industry. Because Spotify offers both services, they pay less per stream on average. Apple only has the premium service, so they pay more on average.
Your hate is because of a lie. Do you really believe Apple is voluntary paying record labels more than they are required to? If you subscribe to Spotify, the same amount will go to the artists as with an Apple Music subscription. If you only listen to the ad-supported tier, artists will get less.
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hahaha keep up. the EU get the fine. not Spotify or Epic...
Spotify is more expensive without paying any commission and lower quality.
Spotify are making a very clear case for it to be time to look at other services
Apple “insists” so hard that Spotify release a new version weekly
Both Spotify and Apple Music are $10.99 each in the US.hahaha keep up. the EU get the fine. not Spotify or Epic...
Spotify is more expensive without paying any commission and lower quality.
Spotify are making a very clear case for it to be time to look at other services
Only because Spotify has a free ad-supported radio option and Apple doesn't.
Newsflash, not everybody who has an issue with Apples prices does so because they can't afford them. Plenty on these forums in fact are financially well off but don't see the value in some of the top end products. You echo the best advice, buy what you're comfortable with. The only party that loses out in that scenario is the company not getting the extra revenue, not the user.
Both $12.99 in Australia now.
But Apple have high res at that price.
Spotify have promised it for two years. And could charge more…
I could bundle Cloud storage and Music and Arcade for a package deal…