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Taylor Swift Criticizes Apple Music's Free Trial in Open Letter
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Discussing Apple ≠ blindly supporting every move without thinking of the repercussions. Giving unconditional support to a company shouldn't be normal, it just makes you a tool to a brand.
These are no doubt the same people that'll complain about the changes Apple's making recently 10 years down the line once they're disillusioned and realised their blind support encouraged these poor practices and decisions.
Thanks for pointing this out - I forgot that Spotify provides revenue based on plays.
At the end of the day, it's the labels that negotiated the contracts.
Streaming is temporary, purchasing to own is forever (unless you buy a CD and record labels in your country are trying to re-outlaw making private copies for backup, but that's another story).
My understanding is that Apple pays more than the other streamers for all paid up memberships. The free part is to introduce non-streaming users to the service and in the process, any new songs that come out. The three months applies to each user, not each song, so only the songs that come out for each free user will cost Apple and the artist. Everybody else pays and the artists get more.
In the end whatever the Artists and Apple agree to is what matters. None of these artists are being forced to join Apple music and those that are by their label can take that up with them. Those that speak out also have every right to do so.
It seems this would all go away with a one month trial but Apple think's it needs 3 month's to get people to switch or join.
Looking forward to seeing what music apple music will lack once it is live.
I'm sorry but you're entire posts speaks nothing but your own opinion and not facts. Carrie Underwood's current song on Spotify #25 of the top 40 in country music. I don't even listen her music as I am not a country music fan but I don't have to be one to know who's relevant. She's very relevant. At least she holds true to her craft.
Taylor Swift jumped out of the country bandwagon very shortly after her interaction with Kanye West. But it's okay, go ahead and support FAKE artists because that's what they are when they do what she did. I mean, an ARTIST is a person of craft IMO and not one who just wants a ton of tween Twitter followers and puts out music for the masses just because it's gonna make them instantly rich.
Yeah, teens usually don't listen to a music artist once that artist reaches 30 and those who listened to her as teens grow up and realize their mistake. She probably will try to reconnect with her country roots and hope people over 30 will reconnect with her.
Well Apple is not the only game in town. Spotify, Pandora, Google Music, Amazon all offer excellent music streaming services. The day the music industry stops viewing Apple as the huge Goliath of music distribution is the day Apple stops their profit grabbing practices.
that's not a similar scenario.
reminds me of the fbi commercial which likens music pirating to stealing cars.
they aren't the same thing.
digital entertainment reproduction is a different type of entity than hard goods/ bread/ cupcakes etc and should be treated differently.
I can't speak to Eddy's performance as a systems and services manager, though he has more on his plate than any other senior VP at Apple. But according to Isaacson's Jobs bio, Eddy was instrumental in negotiations, and was a key player is getting a deal with the record labels when the iTunes Store originally went up.
I'm also not sure you know that the writers, producers nor artists will be paying for bandwidth, marketing or engineering and operations for 3 months.Taylor Swift said:
I'm having a hard time getting bothered by this. Opt in, opt out, whatever. I just don't see this as Apple strong arming or exploiting anyone.
It sounds like "1989" is being distributed like it's 1989.
Unless you pay for those torrents, you are not entitled to them. Why don't you pay for what you consume? Would you work for free?
well yeah, the music industry is pro vinyl.
They make more money that way. They are definitely not happy seeing the majority going the streaming way...
Even Apple is pro digital file not streaming...
Aren't they already stumping the cost for bringing the music to everyone during the trial period? Aren't there costs associated with all the hardware, software and people hired to make this happen???
I also had thought Apple was paying for the free trial. Instead they want the artists to pay for pumping up Apple's new business.
It's is as if OpenTable decided to give away three months of free restaurant meals to build up their reservation business, but wanted the restaurants to pay for it.
Of course she was being politic by saying that smaller artists didn't want to comment because of their "respect for Apple". More like their fear of Apple and its vengeful ways.
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Apple is only doing what the music labels let them do. If the music labels didn't want Apple to do the free 3 month trial it wouldn't happen.
Apple may be greedy but so is the music industry.
Yes both are but i'm not that sure about this: If the music labels didn't want Apple to do the free 3 month trial it wouldn't happen.
Spotify is already giving 3 months for free hence Apple must have that too.
Thanks, good to know. I'm in no rush since I have iTunes Match and will hold off until they get more indie labels and artists.
You are stating that people should call Apple and ask to skip the free trial? That's dumb. Just sign up and support another streaming service. They'll have music that Apple's service likely won't have anyway and it will better push apple to change their ways.
What about this guys:
Apple is not adopting the free model (like Spotify), artist should be grateful because of that, they shouldn't complain about those 3 free months...what do you think?
Apple is not adopting the free model (like Spotify), artist should be grateful because of that, they shouldn't complain about those 3 free months...what do you think?