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I'm pretty surprised of the high number of Apple Music subscribers. As hinted at the end of the article, geographic, but also age distribution would be interest

I'm pretty surprised of the high number of Apple Music subscribers. As hinted at the end of the article, geographic, but also age distribution would be interesting to see. Anecdotally in my mid 20 central European bubble, ~95% of my peers use Spotify, with the rest using Google Play Music (including me). I don't know a single person using Apple Music, and I wasn't even aware that it existed as a paid service (though I think I've heard of it a few years ago).

jonknee 8y ago
> I'm pretty surprised of the high number of Apple Music subscribers. As hinted at the end of the article, geographic, but also age distribution would be interesting to see. Just shows the power of controlling the platform.
cam3ham 8y ago
This. Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's but already have 50% of the subscribers? Then you account for the other big platform which is Google Music... I don't see a play for spotify here.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's Say what now? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
- skinnymuch 8y ago
  Apple Music is on Android. I heard it isn’t a great experience but it’s been there for a while.
acomjean 8y ago
> and I wasn't even aware that it existed as a paid service If you have an iPhone and tried to use the music app to play your songs, you should be well aware that apple music exists. One of the more blatant up sells on ios. I use iTunes-match and the built in music on ios ("upload" and stream all your music) and eventually figured out you can tone down the apple music reminders by turning of settings->music->show_apple_music
- lowtolerance 8y ago
  Beyond Apple Music and iCloud storage, what other “up sells” are there on iOS? I can’t think of any, let alone any that I would call “blatant”.
coldtea 8y ago
Unless you have an iPhone you wouldn't know about it anyway.
bamboo_7 8y ago
This really comes down to what you expect from the product and what your use case is. I don't want something to select music for me. I listen to whole albums. I want to be able to search or an album or an artist and listen to one of their albums. Not a playlist that might feature them. I hated Spotify's UX because it felt like it was hiding all of its music and trying to force me to listen to what it wanted me to hear. The entire iTunes catalog free for me to listen fits my needs exactly.

jonknee 8y ago

> I'm pretty surprised of the high number of Apple Music subscribers. As hinted at the end of the article, geographic, but also age distribution would be interesting to see. Just shows the power of controlling the platform.

cam3ham 8y ago

This. Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's but already have 50% of the subscribers? Then you account for the other big platform which is Google Music... I don't see a play for spotify here.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> Spotify should be worried about the growth of Apple music - which is only available on iPhone's Say what now? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
skinnymuch 8y ago
Apple Music is on Android. I heard it isn’t a great experience but it’s been there for a while.

acomjean 8y ago

> and I wasn't even aware that it existed as a paid service If you have an iPhone and tried to use the music app to play your songs, you should be well aware that apple music exists. One of the more blatant up sells on ios. I use iTunes-match and the built in music on ios ("upload" and stream all your music) and eventually figured out you can tone down the apple music reminders by turning of settings->music->show_apple_music

lowtolerance 8y ago
Beyond Apple Music and iCloud storage, what other “up sells” are there on iOS? I can’t think of any, let alone any that I would call “blatant”.

coldtea 8y ago

Unless you have an iPhone you wouldn't know about it anyway.

bamboo_7 8y ago

This really comes down to what you expect from the product and what your use case is. I don't want something to select music for me. I listen to whole albums. I want to be able to search or an album or an artist and listen to one of their albums. Not a playlist that might feature them. I hated Spotify's UX because it felt like it was hiding all of its music and trying to force me to listen to what it wanted me to hear. The entire iTunes catalog free for me to listen fits my needs exactly.