Spotify Punishing Artists Who Offer Apple Music Exclusives [Updated]

[Plutonius]

But why should they do what everybody else does if their own strategy made them the leader?

Because, now they have competition and they need to make a profit to survive. A free music tier was great for growth when they had no competition. Now, it will put them out of business.

 

[developer13245]

Citation needed
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Ask any small iOS developer - no one without a billion dollar legal budget dares cross Apple in public.

 

[StonewallBrown]

Ask any small iOS developer - no one without a billion dollar legal budget dares cross Apple in public.

Isn't that part of the terms and conditions? What does that have to do with Spotify? Are you saying, since it's not in the label contracts, that exclusives are fine?

 

[itsamacthing]

The iPhone just plays whatever was playing last when it connects to bluetooth. That'll be Spotify if you were just streaming from it, or podcasts, apple music, anything - it'll even pick up embedded videos in Safari if you were watching them last and try to play them.

I wish that were the case, spotify was my last one, and it still goes to Music, first song in my library

 

[Bigsk8r]

Actually the hardware is there, its required by law because in an emergency when all the power is out or the towers are overwhelmed, radio waves are the only real good way of getting emergency instructions or broadcasts out to the public. Any new smartphone has the hardware. On android devices and on jailbroken iPhones you can unlock that hardware and listen to good old FM radio without data. In many third world countries this is officially supported because of the limitations on good data connections. Its just here where they don't want FM to cannibalize their profits where they lock that functionality out. I assume there is an emergency protocol in there where if it "hears" an emergency broadcast it plays it or allows you to hear it without the need of an "app". For the most part however, the hardware just sits there and does nothing.

And the 31" antenna required to gather a signal of any usable quality more than a mile from the transmitter is where?

 

[truthertech]

They're getting a pittance.

No, these deals are worth million. You have to read closer.

 

[dstud208]

And the 31" antenna required to gather a signal of any usable quality more than a mile from the transmitter is where?

Its insanely easy mate, it could just be coiled up inside the phone somewhere, probably in board somewhere. To be honest I don't know, but what I do know is that if you jailbreak your phone you can do it. If you have an android phone you can do it. If you live in many of the countries around the globe that don't have a robust cellphone network then you don't even need to finagle anything, it is switched on by default. Just google it mate, its not a secret.