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Unpopular music service to acquire even less popular music service. With those forces combined they will be unstoppable! /s
by tuxracer 10y ago
Unpopular music service to acquire even less popular music service. With those forces combined they will be unstoppable! /s
- colinbartlett 10y agoIsn't Apple Music already the #2 most popular streaming music service behind Spotify? I'd hardly call 15 million paid subscribers unpopular.
- markcerqueira 10y agoHow many of those 15 million are people who forgot to turn off auto-renew on their free trial?
- kstrauser 10y agoMaybe 3. Who doesn't notice $10 a month on their card? People with little spare money would feel it, and people with lots of spare money usually get that way by paying attention to their finances.
- ben_jones 10y agoYou're right, consumers who buy the newest iPhone each year are real penny pinchers. \s
- Throwaway23412 10y agoApple Music has been out for a year today. After the initial three-month free trial, I would think that most people would notice $10 missing from their bank accounts every month.
- Tiksi 10y agoI once paid $80/mo for a year for a server I forgot I had. It happens.
- dawnerd 10y agoOr at a certain point 10 dollars is nothing and the time alone to figure out apples weird settings isn't even worth it. I still pay for a few things that I never use but just don't feel like figuring out how to cancel.
- mdrzn 10y agoI'd be happy to unsubscribe you from those services, in exchange for 50% of what I'll save you monthly.
- markcerqueira 10y agoI think "most people" is giving "most people" too much credit!
- 1123581321 10y agoMark, that's a legitimate question, but shouldn't you also ask how many Spotify customers forgot to turn off auto-renew? After all, they are also quickly acquiring customers. In my opinion, a lot of users of streaming media services are neither enthusiastic customers nor entirely forgetful. Their opinions of the services they pay for aren't consistent from day to day, either.
- abritinthebay 10y agoIt also is way better than Spotify for me. It's everything I wanted out of a music service. Spotify was never going to have me as a subscriber but Apple Music was so much better (for me) that it was a no-brainer. But then I always preferred Pandora over Spotify anyhow (different use cases I know, but still).
- Esau 10y agoIn what way is Apple Music better than Spotify? I've tried both and, other than catalog differences, I don't see one as really being better than the other.
- sdornan 10y agoI chose Apple Music for a couple reasons: 1. I can add music to my streaming library that is not on their service and that music isn't treated any differently than the stuff in their catalog from a UI standpoint. 2. It integrates better into the Apple ecosystem, which I've already tied myself too. For example, play music using Siri and Apple TV support. Also, I'm not a fan of Spotify's UI.
- mdrzn 10y ago1. With Spotify I can also add all the music I want from "local" sources, aka my computer. And later I can stream that music from my Android phone. 2. Spotify works great with Google Now and Chromecast. Also, I'm not a fan of Apple Music's UI.
- abritinthebay 10y agoFor a start: the UI. I know Apple Music gets hate for it's UI but it's nirvana compared to the horrible, grating, death by 1000 papercuts UI that Spotify has. So that contributes a LOT to my impression of Spotify. I find their radio offerings better than Spotify, and the curated playlists to be of higher quality and better variation. The For You tab alone is better than a lot of what I found on Spotify. The importing of my existing library and linking of it into the service with all sorts of metadata made for a seamless experience that I haven't found from any other service either. Basically... it's just a little bit better (for me) in every possible way, while being nicer to use.
- k-mcgrady 10y agoIn one year they've managed to acquire half the number of paid subscribers Spotify has - and with a pretty buggy product. That's pretty impressive.
- Esau 10y agoI suspect that is largely because the product is bundled with the iOS. I wonder how it doesn't on Android, where people have to go out of their way to install it.
- tedmiston 10y agoDoes it even matter? The iOS device base is so large that Apple can get more paid customers than Spotify on their own devices alone.