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Spotify Launches Cheaper $10.99/Month Premium Plan Without Audiobooks
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Nonsense. Spotify has 2.5x the subscriber base of Apple Music.
Unfortunately, that is not the world we live in today. Everyone seems to be looking for things to be offended about. What a waste of time...
Everyone likes a deal, but you're basically stealing the service, have violated the T&C, then complain when they raise prices.
Imagine if everyone did this...how long would any company be around?
Which is actually impressive for Apple, when you consider that Spotify is cross-platform, while Apple Music largely caters to iPhone users, which is still only a small proportion of users worldwide.
Can we get even cheaper one that would get rid of all the podcast nonsense? xD
Apple Music is also cross-platform nowadays (because profits). And given iPhone dominance in one of the biggest consumer, consumption-driven markets it's no wonder actually...
While true, I don’t know of any Android users who would opt for Apple Music over Spotify, since the biggest draw of Apple Music is its integration with the rest of the Apple ecosystem.
That’ll never happen. Joe Rogan has 14 million listeners. That’s probably more people than you would know in 500 lifetimes. Spotify is doing something right yeah? 200+ million subscribers vs 80 million with Apple?
Better UI. Personal preference. Why do you use an iPhone instead of other alternatives?
Never understood the hate for Spotify as a consumer. Don’t you want options? Free market capitalism is good seeing that it keeps costs competitive. If Spotify went away tomorrow you don’t think Apple Music would raise prices after 200 million people would need to find a new option. Get real.
Right, and when they are not listening the cost Spotify zero and when they do Spotify makes money. The free tier is a way to get listeners and make money off of them, which is why Spotify offers it. As a bonus, some eventually decide to pay to get rid of ads.
It's a great model. And why I bought shares and kept them. I couldn't care less about artists. They need to fight for themselves.
I try Apple Music every once in a while. After all these years their music discovery algorithms are still nowhere near as good as Spotify's. I also find the UI of the Apple Music app very convoluted. So for me the question is: why do people use Apple Music?
BTW, at least in the US you can still buy annual Spotify gift cards for $99, which works out to $8.25/month ...
I can’t find a lot of music on Spotify and remixes honestly, you can tell which company pays more to get more access to music and Spotify isn’t it
why are venezuelans charged less? there should be 1 price. it sucks that the usa citizens are subsidizing drugs for the rest of the world too
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Apple Music is “kind of” cross platform since it has apps for Apple products, Windows PC and Android, however there are a lot of other things like smart speakers, smart TVs, media players, stereo receivers etc. that have Spotify support and not Apple Music. Spotify is definitely more available outside of the Apple ecosystem so that’s why I use it.
Same. If anything, they should offer a a slightly more expensive plan for people who want more audio book minutes. The audio books feature is way more value added for me than using Audible.
Even more iPhone users use Spotify than Apple Music. Spotify supports just about everything - I can natively send it to Alexa speakers, Sonos, Google, my Car.... I get audio books and far superior music curation and recommendations and dozens of features lacking in Apple Music which is still largely reskinned Beats Music with very little innovation and what they are doing not is copycatting Spotify's UI which is also superior.