It was more of a joke
but I feel like if we can afford a brand new iPhone at the price of £700 then we can afford it when they put the price by another £30-£50.
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Spotify Punishing Artists Who Offer Apple Music Exclusives [Updated]
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It was more of a joke
but I feel like if we can afford a brand new iPhone at the price of £700 then we can afford it when they put the price by another £30-£50.The article also talked about Spotify lashing out against smaller artists that get featured on Beats 1, of which there are many.
If this is true, it seems super desperate as it not only hurts their own users, but they must know making enemies of artists will come back to haunt them in the long; it's the backbone of their entire business.
Can you imagine the outrage if Apple ever pulled something like this? They'd be looking to burn Tim Cook at the stake.
Wow, this forum is pretty bad. Spotify is unquestionably in the right here. Platform exclusives are despicable and some of the most egregiously anti-consumer behavior we see today. Any fight against it should be applauded.
A price war?
How dense is everyone to think that 10$ a month for an all you can eat music library is not impossibly low?
We have the family plan at 15$ a month and I feel guilty knowing how much less the artists are receiving.
The price of these services will never fall below $10 a month. Ever. Full stop.
Good. I generally dislike exclusives all around. I don't like it with streaming services. I don't like it when an artist releases some album exclusive to a particular store or something. In no universe am I going to pay for two streaming services. (The exception being Amazon Prime and Netflix. I prefer the latter in most cases, but I get Amazon Prime by right of paying for two-day shipping anyway.)
With that said, I do like the competition between the two. I was seriously considering a switch to Apple Music because of the family plans, then Spotify added it so I stayed put.
With that said, I do like the competition between the two. I was seriously considering a switch to Apple Music because of the family plans, then Spotify added it so I stayed put.
Cue the 'free market', 'their choice', 'they can do whatever they want' comments. Oh wait the article is about Spotify's practices not Apple's
They can do whatever whatever they want, and if that is shooting themselves in the foot in the long run .. so be it.
Cue the "Apple Music is a buggy mess anyway" comments as well.Cue the 'free market', 'their choice', 'they can do whatever they want' comments. Oh wait the article is about Spotify's practices not Apple's
Pick a side if you want, but exclusives are obviously bad for consumers. Don't be a sellout artist, too.
This is exactly what Spotify should not be doing... alienating the artists. Without the artists, Spotify is NOTHING.
More people will do this if it becomes difficult to legally obtain music.
Shouldn't it be promoting those that aren't hurting it with exclusives though? You can use "punishing" in one direction but it certainly "rewards" those who don't.
Did anyone actually read the articles this post is based on? No artists have pulled their music from Spotify in response to this, but at least one artist has cancelled a potential Apple exclusive deal. This tactic is working, and if it continues to work, no one will benefit more from it than you and I, regardless of which streaming service you inexplicably fanboy for.
Cue the 'free market', 'their choice', 'they can do whatever they want' comments. Oh wait the article is about Spotify's practices not Apple's
I guess you didn't see the post directly before yours?
£10 in a the UK = too much, especially since I already own (legally) ~20,000 songs which I have no need to subscribe to again. £5 and I'm interested as a new music discovery tool.
Edit: especially as UK average salary is £26k, US is $44k.
I'm the biggest Apple fanboy, but I believe going "thermonuclear" was an horrible mistake.
Apple became "the bad guy", and Samsung (a criminal organization that shamelessly copied their products), in an unbelievable twist, looked good in comparison.
Also, Apple had to reveal tons of secret documents and blueprints to the public, something they had avoided if possible.
And, most glaringly, the patent war sowed in the general public the seed of the idea that Samsung stuff is just as good as Apple's, given Apple itself said it was identical.
All things considered, it was a mistake in my opinion, the typical fruit of Steve Jobs' worst instincts.
The moment Apple does such censorship, it will be reported to the EU comission for unfair competition and likely would face a huge fine and if not complying with the likely ruling of allowing Spotify compete... Apple would also face a ban of sales in the EU.
Do you really think Apple wants to drop one of its main markets? Obviously not. So it won't happen.
Not that I like Spotify that much... but I think that the bad guy here is Apple as it is likely using its deep pocket to buy those exclusives (and recently we learnt Apple is pushing the royalties it pays higher to take competition out of the market...)
My exact response upon seeing this was "oh, this is gonna be good."Spotify aren't really profitable. This article possibly indicates they're a little desperate at the moment.
I can appreciate why it's a bit tough for them to take on the chin; a music streaming application that has become ubiquitous, only for a larger company with deeper pockets to come along and do the same thing.
Regardless, as much as I enjoy Spotify and its user interface, I do love reading about a good feud.
They don't have to banish the app - they can slow approval or withhold technical help. I don't think they'd do this but if Steve Jobs was still there you know they would. LOL
They're not attacking anything but blatant anti-consumer behavior. Get over yourself.