An important quote from the article: >> “Could Eddy’s team have built a subscription service? Of course,” he said. “We could’ve built those 27 other things ourselves, too. You don’t build everything yourself. It’s not one thing that excites us here. It’s the people. It’s the service.” From my usage of the Beats streaming service it stands head and shoulders above everyone else because of the people it has creating pl…
Interestingly, I find the exact opposite-- Beats is inferior to Spotify (or other competition such as Rdio) in my opinion. This isn't necessarily because of the curated playlists, but it's the service as a whole. Beats is quite rudimentary in terms of music management, and requires way too many taps to add multiple songs to playlists or even just shuffle play a playlist. When I'm trying to listen to music I know I li…
> Beats is quite rudimentary in terms of music management, and requires way too many taps to add multiple songs to playlists or even just shuffle play a playlist.
By comparison, I am a Spotify subscriber, and Spotify until recently didn't even have a way to 'save' albums wholesale (which is my preferred way of listening to music). Instead, you had to save each album as its own unique playlist, which got old fast. Now they have introduced a way of 'saving' albums and browsing through them by artist/album/song, but this new feature still hasn't propagated to all their clients (e.g. their Roku client). So it's not like Spotify is that much better.