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Taylor Swift Criticizes Apple Music's Free Trial in Open Letter
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If Apple are giving labels / the artists to opt out then that should answer that.
My main issue here isn't really about whether or not Apple should pay out.
It is about the fact that, up until now, we were to believe that artists made virtually no money from streaming.
But now that gets turned on its head and we are to believe that artists are suffering big financial losses.
Apple and Jobs did in fact save the music industry. They single-handedly got people into buying music again right when Napster, Limewire and Pirate Bay were getting so much "business" and it looked like there was no way of changing the minds of pirates. Other companies like Microsoft and Sony couldn't get people into buying music from their online services. I really didn't think Apple could pull it off but they did.
You may either love or hate Apple but the truth is they DID save the music industry.
ITunes saved the industry from illegal downloads. It is not Apples fault that the industry went back to inappropriately high prices. That is the reason streaming took over to begin with. Has nothing to do with Apple.
I don't follow.
Is your argument that country music is somehow better than pop music?
Exactly, free ad supported streams is no different than ad supported radio stations. I don't recall any outrage of people wanting to burn down radio stations...besides for the purpose of frustration with commercials.
Music is Apple's own streaming service. That's what gives them the right. If artists don't want to join they don't have to, just as Ms. Taylor Swift so "humbly" backed out.
Need another analogy? What gives me the right to tell you how to act in my house? Well, it's my house.
Well, going from little income to no-income is a significant drop in earnings...
Everyone is going to cancel Spotify for 3 months?
Well I'm not. I find it hard to believe that many will.
Oh, please. The music industry has been doing a great job killing itself for over a decade.
Assuming you are an artist (rather than speaking on behalf of artists), it would be interesting to know how much you made in the last three months, and what proportion of that income came from free streaming services?
But isn't Apple asking these artists to act as a welfare system for Apple by providing their content which has value to apple for free?
A solution for this problem is for Apple to count each trial subscriber as a full paying customer in determining what to pay the artists and then to pay out the artists accordingly.
Apple paying the artists nothing just conveys that Apple does not value their content, IMO.
Plan and simple, Apple should not be externalizing the cost for acquiring customers to the Artists.
Okay, let's be real about this. All these people hating on Apple here today would be still hating on them if it was 1 month trial. They didn't "UP" anything. It was 3 months from the start. And so what if they are trying to grab customers. Isn't that the name of the game in competition? LOL.
But thanks for not really addressing the question I posted. If people including you are so concerned then simply pay for your Music subscription upfront and ignore the trial. That way the artists will get paid. I like how that keeps getting ignored though. Too logical for some people.
"Apple Music will not be paying writers, producers, or artists for those three months"
But the labels will!. That is part of Apple's deal with them, as I understood it
But the labels will!. That is part of Apple's deal with them, as I understood it
Well i'm not defending the music industry here either, those guys have not been smart enough, specially in recent years, and yeah always with high and abusive prices to pay their expensive swimming pools...They would love everybody to go back to vinyl for sure, good luck with that.
I agree Apple has nothing to do with streaming until now.
The word "saved" is an excessive word here IMO, it you want to use it i don't have problem unless you also acknolewdge that Apple also saved their own pockets too. They are not charity you know..
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Actually, some of the highest paying entry level performace based jobs are just that. They pay nothing or next to nothing while you train and get started. But once you start selling you get paid. Going into business is the same thing. You make nothing initially but it pays off down the road.Wow if that's the type of logic you employ, do I have a job offer for you!!! It pays ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the first three months, but after that I promise I'll start paying you.
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When Apple gives a paid app away for "free" for a period of time, do they compensate the developer of said app for the money they would've made had all the downloads not been "free"?
Just curious, who is picking up the tab to the servers,bandwidth, marketing, etc.? Oh Apple... Who will reap the majority of the sales benefits once it's live. Oh the Artists.... carry on nothing to see here folks...