Apple may be greedy but they are not stupid. They'll take money over being insulted any day.
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Taylor Swift Criticizes Apple Music's Free Trial in Open Letter
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Apple may be greedy but they are not stupid. They'll take money over being insulted any day.
You can piss off presidents, kings, CEOs, popes and cardinals, but you better not piss off Taylor Swift. Doubt Apple can ignore this (seriously). I guarantee you they will reverse course on this in a couple weeks after thinking it over and measuring the PR hit.
It is similar but not equal, Lars went after his own audience but i don't hate him still have the metallica discography on cd, i mean he had a valid point.
Anyway those Napster files....they were garbage full of skips. I could have never replaced an original CD with those files.
Accept it landing on more deaf ears when he was complaining about Joe Blow downloading his stuff. Here, it's Apple stealing from artists.
You seem to assume that apple is making any significant money selling her music. If so, you are wrong.
And speaking of Napster, back then I could get all kinds of music free. And you know what? It took hours sometimes to get a good file, high bit-rate. Paying $0.99 for a song when iTunes came out was like inventing the wheel. I was happy to pay the artists to get the music. The irony here is that Apple is OK with essentially stealing from the artist for 1/4 of a year.
Oh look, a guy who doesn't know the difference between "accept" and "except" is trying to accuse apple of "stealing". How credible!
Apple is making significant money selling their brand, with her music, videos, iPods, iPhones, iPads to play that music. If you think they are losing money selling her music, you are wrong.
So if in a couple of weeks that doesn't happen are we allowed to come back and laugh at you?
Look at all the Facebook and twitter posts, most people are laughing at Taylor right now.
Really? you think the main reason people purchase iOS devices is to listen to her song? LOL
I've heard a couple of her songs, and that was a couple too many.
I'm fine keeping it that way.
I'm fine keeping it that way.
I call BS on that one! She only mentioned the Indie artists for leverage probably because she knows that Apple haters will attack Apple over this. She never even mentioned any of the artist names. If she really cared about these Indie artists she would've Put up a list of their names, posted this weeks ago on Twitter when she pulled out from Spotify. She did none of the sort. She's full of crap. This is for her own financial gain to further her career. It's a pity that some people don't see that.
Only problem is that a full blown song is not a demo. A demo would be a 30 second teaser if your talking about music. And does it matter if the artist is filthy rich or just starting out? People should have control of their own work and should not be bullied at their expense because big corporation wants to enter the music streaming business. The artist are being used as pawns at their own expense.
If you had a car to sale me would you let me use it for 3 months without paying a dime with the option of walking away free and clear? All I'm saying is that the owner should be entitled to payment for the number of times their songs get streamed. There must be a formula to make it fair. To me that's common sense.
Don't know where you're looking. Pretty much all tweets regarding her letter are supporting her.
Wow the grammar guy... nice catch. Other than posting back to back to back, I have no idea why I switched words... sux when you don't proof and just press a button. But even if I couldn't figure out the difference between both spellings, I could still blame Apple for anything. Not sure why spelling would make any difference...
Also, and not blaming it on that, I need to turn off this auto-correct feature on Yosemite. I find I'm misspelling more crap lately.
If that happens Apple will be public enemy number one to these artist. The music industry will boycott Apple.
Eddy Cue just tweeted that artists will be paid for streaming during the trial period.
Can we all stop whining for the millionaires now?
Can we all stop whining for the millionaires now?
"People," as in her fans? Have you polled how many teen girls got an iPod Touch for their birthday along with a $50 gift card, then buying a bunch of her music? Like I said, Apple is always making money with a popular artist like her.
The struggling indie artists are the ones who will be hurt the least by the free trial. Trust me, I have a lot of musician friends and they make most of their money playing gigs, not from selling singles on iTunes. In fact, they have the most to gain by the free publicity and potentially millions of new listeners hearing their songs for the first time.
The ones who have the most to lose are the labels and big artists. Taylor Swift is no dummy. There's a reason why she's holding back her new album from Spotify and Apple Music. She doesn't want to lose 3 months' of album sales.
Taylor Swift isn't powerful enough to start bullying companies. She better watch her step. Just sayin'.
Apple is not making or losing money selling any artists' music. The iTunes store, selling apps, movies, music, and other digital content is a break even market for Apple. The iTunes store myth is that they make significant profit from it, but in truth the 30% on apps, music, etc. is to cover the costs of operating the iTunes / App stores, which exist solely to drive their hardware sales. If you were to listen to their quarterly reports or breakdown the revenue and cost from their business divisions or go through their 10-K or 10-Q at the SEC, you would see that any profit from iTunes is less than 3-4% of their total profit in any given period.
Apple makes money of hardware products. And a lot of it. Period. Any attempt to characterize it as otherwise is misinformed and misleading.
The labels spent months negotiating the terms with apple and clearly this is what they feel is fair.
If an artist doesn't like it, he/she can choose to not be part of it and stick to selling music through the iTunes store. A simple solution to a "problem" blown way out of proportion.