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Spotify Punishing Artists Who Offer Apple Music Exclusives [Updated]
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The same could be said of Apple when they removed Monster from the "Made for iPhone" accessory program.
http://www.cultofmac.com/326491/monster-apple-bully/
Apple is accused of corporate bullying after reportedly booting rival headphone maker Monster from its “Made for iPhone” accessory program.
Monster claims the move is in retaliation for an ongoing lawsuit against Beats, which is now owned by Apple. Monster was the original contract manufacturer of Beats-branded headphones. The move could seriously impact Monster’s headphone business.
Without the ability to take advantage of Apple’s MFi program, Monster accessories can’t carry the Made for iPhone logo that verifies they work together, nor does Monster have access to the tools and support Apple offers to other third-party manufacturers.
The story comes from The Wall Street Journal, which reports that Apple’s chief litigation counsel Noreel Krall told Monster’s general counsel David Tognotti that the agreement within the MFi program is coming to an end on May 5.
According to Tognotti, Krall said that because of the lawsuit, the relationship between Apple and Monster is not “mutually beneficial.”
“It shows a side of Apple that consumers don’t see very often,” Monster’s Tognotti told The Wall Street Journal, expressing his disapproval of Apple’s actions.
“Apple can be a bully,” he added.
Monster’s lawsuit alleges that Beats stole its headphone technology and was holding out on profits owed after Apple’s acquisition.
That's Spotify's free choice. They sure are making themselves attractive for artists: fighting for lower streaming payments, promising to demote artists that accept money from other companies for exclusives.
Have fun alienating artists, Spotify.
Have fun alienating artists, Spotify.
Setting aside your random use of "fanboyism" here (the guy just said he didn't think exclusives were that bad) and the debatability of the benefit/harm of exclusive content, I don't follow your logic.
You're saying that since a person with deep knowledge of the music industry understands something, then an average person should too. You now understand that you have that backwards, right?
As soon as he gets done granting wishes from under bridges and helping that chick find her little brother in Labyrinth, perhaps you'll see a persuasive argument. Until then, pure spite and vitriol.
Try an app called "TuneIn Radio", it's great!
I love the mentality of people who think they are being a hero by using a free ad supported tier instead of pirating. Go back to pirating. Good luck emulating that experience of having access to all music produced ever through piracy. Have fun organizing that too.
The phrase "biting the hand that feeds you" comes to mind.
This would be the watershed moment for Apple's autonomy over their app store and would be a major judicial case. I'd imagine Apple could risk having a monopoly on the App Store and how apps are installed on iOS all together.
Here’s an idea. Spotify should kill their free tier and make everybody pay something. That should greatly help their financials. When has being the champion of leeches ever made good business sense?
According to their loyalists they have a superior service. Great. They should pay for that. Nothing to be shocked or offended by.
The current reality turned out spectacularly well not for the trial but for the products and the management. However, let's just agree to disagree on the trial, given we agree on everything else.
Umm I don't subscribe to Apple Music. I actually BUY music so the artist gets more royalty. If I did subscribe to AM it would be for music discovery and then I would BUY the music I like. If people want to get free music, they can listen to the radio. They don't have to subscribe to ANY service. I'm not hurt by exclusives one bit. Oh wait I am hurt by one exclusive. TIDAL has the a lot of the Prince catalog that I need that's not on iTunes. I'm not subscribing to Tidal as much as I love Prince. Tidal does have a store where I can purchase if I want. I am trying to see if Apple buys Tidal and then hopefully I can get all the music in one place.
People are so silly. Next thing you know folks will be mad they have to pay for a concert ticket. STOP BEING CHEAP!
If it was that easy... wouldn't they have done it by now?
Spotify has been bleeding money for YEARS... despite getting BILLIONS of dollars from investors with no profit in sight.
I agree with you... they have to do something.
I just can't believe that we've thought of this and they haven't.
WalMart has been doing exclusive music deals for decades.
Target has exclusivity deals.
Like others have said this is nothing new, the people can still get the music they just have to go to a specific place to get it. It could possibly be a little inconvenient for some but you can still get it.
Target has exclusivity deals.
Like others have said this is nothing new, the people can still get the music they just have to go to a specific place to get it. It could possibly be a little inconvenient for some but you can still get it.
I like that he restored to just shouting at people before apparently jumping the thread. This whole conversation has been very entertaining to read.
exactly my point - now they're trying to compete with the 500 pound gorilla and can't so they're changing their tune. pun intended
The reason it isn’t easy is because they have been giving it away for free for too long and anybody with 1/8 a clue knows a big percentage of users will leave once they start charging everybody. All they have as a selling point right now is a huge (mostly valueless) user base. Without that they are screwed.
As an extension, I’m fed up with the majority of the tech industry’s value being based on perception that probably won’t amount to anything tangible in most cases. I welcome its collapse. This is where it starts.
I have issues. Clearly.
How are these exclusives not the subject of investigation by the authorities - especially in Europe?
Last time I checked, concocting a monopoly out of a naturally competitive market was illegal in the UK.
Does McDonalds in London sell Pepsi products?
Won't those things push artists more towards Apple Music?
'You're going to burry my music at the bottom of search results because I was mentioned on Beats One? I've been on loads of radio stations but now it's a problem? Okay, pull my music from your library, Spotify.'
'You're going to burry my music at the bottom of search results because I was mentioned on Beats One? I've been on loads of radio stations but now it's a problem? Okay, pull my music from your library, Spotify.'
Source for any of this? Who sponsored this article? Who sponsored any past news articles?