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WSJ: Apple Music Has Overtaken Spotify in U.S. Paid Subscribers
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If you're streaming you're already locked in. You can't take the music with you when you stop paying.
Go Apple!
Interesting comment, since it obviously is.
My objective opinion is that you have a subjective opinion that it’s objectively worse.
Take this Spotify. Apple bans all 3rd party music apps from the App Store. Now you have something to complain about until then make your own devices. Your service sucks. Apple Music is much better
Spotify’s user interface could use some sprucing up. Apple Music’s interface is seemingly smoother. Also the one main thing that hinders Spotify is the lack of music in their library. I only use Spotify to listen to the Joe Budden Podcast. I’ve even toyed around with Tidal for a while but ended up coming back to Apple Music.
Once Apple figures out that when we hit the 'dislike' button on a track, we don't want to hear it again, I'll try AM again. Until then, Spotify works best for me (especially with Hulu included).
Let’s plug in the numbers
Apple worldwide user base : 50 million
Spotify worldwide user base: 96 million
Let’s be generous and use the higher end growth prediction for Apple (2.8%) and Lower end prediction for Spotify growth (2%)
Predicted Apple growth: 1.4 million
Predicted Spotify growth: 1.9 million
I’ll stop there.
p.s tidal user, since you ask
Apple worldwide user base : 50 million
Spotify worldwide user base: 96 million
Let’s be generous and use the higher end growth prediction for Apple (2.8%) and Lower end prediction for Spotify growth (2%)
Predicted Apple growth: 1.4 million
Predicted Spotify growth: 1.9 million
I’ll stop there.
p.s tidal user, since you ask
I just left Apple Music last month after many years and went with Spotify, streaming quality is excellent, equalizer function is nice and the music algorithms seem better to me at least. YYMV..............Ed
You're brainwashed beyond belief.
Cool, it sounded like you thought there was something underhanded about the reporting when you said: “One can make numbers mean anything.” Really, if you had just read the first paragraph of the article you probably wouldn’t have been so confused:
“Apple had more than 28 million U.S. subscribers in February compared to Spotify's 26 million paid U.S. subscribers.”
I keep hearing about this Joe Budden podcast, think I'll check it out.
Same here. I also get the free 1 month trial pop up all the time. Once I wanted to start the trial and it isn‘t even free for me. Nice try Google. As long as the YouTube app is as crappy as it currently is and they don‘t offer PiP at all I‘m not gonna pay a cent. For now I use a shortcut for PiP.
This tbh. I had the same experience too. More artists are putting their music on Apple Music compared to Spotify and they're releasing it earlier on AM too. So it's a no-brainer...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is iTunes Match, not Apple Music. I also use that, and am not an Apple Music subscriber.
In the end, it is about personal preference. Others choice of music subscription, phone, OS, etc does not affect me.
I don't know why people take it to heart so much...
There are actually too many companies trying to get into this market to sustain profitability. Apple would be smart to buy Spotify and close it down. Too many players in this sector only drives down the subscription prices they can charge.
so you tried spotify back in 2008, and then compared it's 2008 features to a service that only launched in 2015...
and you're basic your entire comparison on that? No problems with Apple music, but your logic is fairly flawed as to why Spotify today might not be your choice as technologies in data compression, stream quality and bandwidth have changed tremendously since 2008
And advertisers pay Spotify for every unpaid listener. So why don't we include those numbers?
It’s funny how tribal people are being about this. I’ve used them both extensively, and they’re both good. Nearly the same product with some minor tweaks and hiccups either way.
I’m not iTunes Match subscriber. Never have. So you’re wrong (that it’s not Apple Music).
I'm sure it has, but the fact that they would even think of launching the service before the technology "was there" is outrageous. Apple waited until the right time. And they will have double of Spotify subscribers within 8 years.
This is neither here nor there, I know.
Numbers to back that up?
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Free = dead company.
Also, nothing is free.
