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Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

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Re: Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

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Post by vm »

This is a much better strategy by Apple, than Microsoft’s strategy against Netscape in the 90’s. Here, Apple charges consumers the market price [1]. Microsoft on the other hand gave away its browser for FREE. Free is better for consumers but it sparked antitrust backlash. Apple just let time play to its distribution advantage.

[1] The $ are the same for consumers but not for Spotify. It loses margin because of the App Store’s high take rate. As a result, Apple Music makes more than Spotify on a per consumer basis, even at the same price

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....

Re: Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

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Post by throwa_way_ »

aantix wrote: post #60
sanjeetsuhag wrote: post #10

Honestly, I can't imagine switching to Apple Music. Speaking as a guy who owns an iPhone and a Mac. I love being able to smoothly control playback from any device. I love how seamless the experience is, I've only tried the Apple Music Trial when it first came out and I can't see any possible reason to switch to it now. Spotify is excellent for music discovery, and I love the top songs and everything. It's perfect. It…

I think you’re missing out by not using YouTube Red. You can download _any_ video. Lecture. Music. Whatever. And the app plays in the background on your phone. Working out, whatever, you have any video/music production at your disposal.

You can also use youtube-dl to download videos, and NewPipe to play videos in the background. Both are free tools.

Re: Apple Music on Track to Overtake Spotify in U.S. Subscribers

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Post by jklein11 »

xirdstl wrote: post #71
paul7986 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do I need to do anything at all? When I open Apple Music I clearly see "Recently Added," yet I cant summon Siri to play all my recently added tracks? Makes no UX sense to me especially since they highlight this when you first open the app.

You don't need to. I was trying to be helpful.

How dare you!

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Post by cageface »

kalleboo wrote: post #80
cageface wrote: post #41

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Playing in a browser is unfortunately a non-starter for me. It burns way more CPU than a native player, doesn't integrate well with the MBP media controls, and can't download songs locally for listening when I'm on a bad network connection. Spotify is still my first choice but I do really miss being able to upload my own music for things that aren't in their catalog. I don't use Apple music because I'm not willing to…

> I don't use Apple music because I'm not willing to commit to a single-platform service What do you mean by "single-platform service"? Apple Music is available for Windows (via iTunes) and Android (via a dedicated app)

iTunes on Windows is garbage and the Android version of Apple Music is buggy as hell.

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Post by rxhernandez »

thisisit wrote: post #70
rxhernandez wrote: post #19

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Google music has been the best for me: - IT doesn't block it at work(it blocks spotify) - I don't have to install anything - I don't see ads on youtube - it has all of my music that came from CDs backed up to it - I regularly discover new music through their Radio feature so long as the artist/song isn't super popular

So you are working with a bank? Those are the places which mostly block these kind of apps. If you are then it is a matter of time before they are on to Google music and blocking it too.

No I'm in the biomed industry. I've heard of several other major tech companies doing this as well. I've been doing this for 4 years while spotify has been blocked for 4 years. I doubt IT at my company will look into finding a way to block google anytime soon.

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Post by matwood »

swozey wrote: post #63
on_and_off wrote: post #16

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How so ? Isn't Apple Music Pre-installed on all iOS devices ? That's a huge advantage that most new services don't have. (I realize Play Music has the same advantage on Android but Google has completely failed to even try to promote this service)

I cannot think of anyone in my life ever using itunes at pool parties, on boats, etc. It's always Spotify and lately every so often it's GPM. I recently switched from GPM back to Spotify. It's everything I need in that specific app.

I tried Spotify years ago and didn’t like it. None of my close circle of friends use Spotify either.

I used GPM for a couple of years and recently switched to AM. It’s hidden in the UI, but you can buy a year in AM for $99. If you look around you can find a $100 iTunes gift card for $80 (sometimes cheaper) pushing the cost of AM down a bit more.

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Post by rxhernandez »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #68
rxhernandez wrote: post #19

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Google music has been the best for me: - IT doesn't block it at work(it blocks spotify) - I don't have to install anything - I don't see ads on youtube - it has all of my music that came from CDs backed up to it - I regularly discover new music through their Radio feature so long as the artist/song isn't super popular

If your job blocks Spotify and you are not in a secure area (government) you might want to find a better place to work. It just seems wrong in today’s world.

I'm allowed to work from home >90% of the time and am paid well enough to work on state of the art biomed research; I'm not switching just because of a nuisance like IT.

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Post by IBM »

cageface wrote: post #84
kalleboo wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't use Apple music because I'm not willing to commit to a single-platform service What do you mean by "single-platform service"? Apple Music is available for Windows (via iTunes) and Android (via a dedicated app)

iTunes on Windows is garbage and the Android version of Apple Music is buggy as hell.

The Android app has 3.5 stars. It must not be buggy for most people.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

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Post by metanoetic »

chrisseaton wrote: post #21
hprotagonist wrote: post #5

I have very few complaints about apple music, and most of them are because I regard the Atomic Unit Of Music to be the studio album. 1. No Tool. :( 2. No easy way to reorder search results to be album first. 3. Date of original album release is buried. 4. Hard to filter by "studio album" vs "live album" vs "compilation album" vs "greatest hits album". 5. Siri can't help; "play me the third album by the rolling stones…

What do you mean by it doesn't have a tool? I do think a lot of these services should do more to prioritise the canonical version of a track. When I search for a popular track I don't want to see an ocean of compilations before the original album it came from.

Tool is a band.

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Post by yash1th »

sanjeetsuhag wrote: post #10

Honestly, I can't imagine switching to Apple Music. Speaking as a guy who owns an iPhone and a Mac. I love being able to smoothly control playback from any device. I love how seamless the experience is, I've only tried the Apple Music Trial when it first came out and I can't see any possible reason to switch to it now. Spotify is excellent for music discovery, and I love the top songs and everything. It's perfect. It…

One thing that made me choose apple music over spotify is the indian music library. It’s way more better in Apple music
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