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If at the end, Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft replace the record labels and become the new overlords of music, then nothing much has changed, right?
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Spotify app itself doesn't support AirPlay/Chromecast but some 3rd party apps allow you to stream Spotify to them. On the other hand, Spotify has its own streaming protocol which is supported by a few player/speaker brands (e.g. Gramofon).
Spotify app on iOs definitely supports AirPlay natively. I stream to my Airport Express pretty much every day.
https://junction10.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/those-in-glass-h...
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"It's not about avoiding paying any US taxes, it's about avoiding paying US taxes on earnings abroad." It's also about structuring earnings so that they happen to be earned abroad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
Here are my simple thoughts. If an entity pays for an Apple product or service in the US, Apple has earned an income. This income is without doubt subject to taxes in the US. As far as I know Apple does pay US taxes on these monies. Do we agree this far? I don't see why we can fault Apple for not repatriating income it earned abroad. They can do as they please with it as long as they don't bring it back in the US. I'…
America invented the transistor and Internet with tax money, plus educated most of the engineers who built those products up to grade 12. But everyone acts like it'd be some moral tragedy for Apple to pay taxes back into that system. It's disgusting. Our society has been overrun by MBAs. Nobody thought like this 30 years ago.
Also you completely ignored my actual point about the flexibility of where money was 'earned' if you have good accountants.
Fascinating how Apple can make every cent of cash end up in their own register, but the people paying for this optimisation are the “partners” in the middle between Apple & the consumer.
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Unless you happen to be this Summer's big record... in which case your one profitable window for your track will have has just been obliterated.
Lets say you are that artist. You have practiced, trained, studied. You have worked hard and have a rare natural talent. You sang the songs and played guitar. Now you have "this summer's big record". Two million children want to listen to your song (without paying any additional costs) 50-100 times over the next 3 months, and then never again. How much is that worth to society? How much money should you make from tha…
You should read KLF's The Manual. For purposes of achieving "this summer's big record", there's quite often not a lot of correlation with training, study, talent, etc.
Not saying that's always the case and in particular, it's very different with artists producing more than two or three top10 hits, over time, or producing more than one successful full album with good sales. It's that consistency and prolonged creativity that really requires the talent and training. For the #1 big summer hit, it often suffices to just be lucky, hitting the right gimmick and vibe at the right time, just like a video or meme going viral.
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Unless you happen to be this Summer's big record... in which case your one profitable window for your track will have has just been obliterated.
Lets say you are that artist. You have practiced, trained, studied. You have worked hard and have a rare natural talent. You sang the songs and played guitar. Now you have "this summer's big record". Two million children want to listen to your song (without paying any additional costs) 50-100 times over the next 3 months, and then never again. How much is that worth to society? How much money should you make from tha…
Sure, you didn't write anything that was going to join the ranks of "The Art of Computer Programming," but surely you wouldn't be okay just giving up the hundred thousand dollars or so in royalties you could have made? Without artists writing hit summer songs, there would be no hit summer songs. Without people writing flavor-of-the-month technical books, we wouldn't have those either. You might scoff, but people should be paid for these things.
"If you dont like the fact that Apple wants you to be their slave, then distribute your music yourself." That's exactly what Taylor is doing. What's your point?
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This is simply false. Apple's deal shares more revenue with the artists than any other service. Therefore if users adopt Apple Music, the artists will get more in aggregate. http://recode.net/2015/06/15/heres-what-happens-to-your-10-a... My point is not that I believe that Apple should keep the excess profit. It's that if Apple's service increases the overalls profit for the artists it's reasonable that they should s…
Artists are double dipping? Boy I hope you don't run into an artist who knows that you just said this...
For everyone suggesting that artists are simply being greedy or unreasonable in expecting Apple to pay them during the trial period, I'd encourage you to consider the hypothetical I posted in the last thread about Apple Music's 3 month trial. It might help contextualize the artists' and labels' complaints: > Tomorrow, Apple announces that it will be introducing an "App Store Subscription." For $9.99/month users will…
The revenue from all users is pooled, and then divided per listen rather than per user/artist etc.
So this'd be like splitting the app store sub revenue by "app launches" or some other bullshit.
Pop junk like Taylor gets a far higher fraction of revenue than they deserve, from teens listening to it non-stop.
Artists that I like get 0% of my cash, even if I listen to nothing but their music.
The system would at least be fair in scope if artists got a share of each users subscription fee, split per listen for the songs they listened to.
That the payments involved are very small and mostly go to middlemen is a separate problem, the whole system is designed to fuck niche artists.
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> You can't plan for it. Sounds like a good way to get sued by your investors. > The corpses of businesses that scaled past their ability > to serve their customers are real. Turns out that a Rails App + someone calling themselves a "Serial Startup CEO" on LinkedIn don't necessarily equate to a business.
> Sounds like a good way to get sued by your investors. You can try and anticipate it and you can model the risk and try to mitigate downside risk. You cannot "plan" for it though - it's a factor outside of your direct control. It's not a target you can hit or not hit, you just are prepared and lucky either way. > Turns out that a Rails App + someone calling themselves a "Serial Startup CEO" on LinkedIn don't necessa…