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That's some pretty amazing numbers for one week! I wonder how it affected Apple Music with cancellations. It is interesting that Spotify is $1.68 in India.
by GuillaumeBrdet 8y ago
That's some pretty amazing numbers for one week! I wonder how it affected Apple Music with cancellations.
It is interesting that Spotify is $1.68 in India.
- KorematsuFred 8y agoApple users in India are negligible. There are just 10M iphones in India compared to 300M android users. Of course that number is just 1/3rd of Canada's 30M iphone users.
- anoncake 8y agoApple Music is available on Android.
- Gigacore 8y agoI had a bad experience with their app on Android. The collection is not great either.
- skrebbel 8y ago30M iPhone users on a 36M population? I strongly doubt that.
- anoncake 8y agoMaybe 30M Iphone sales in Canada?
- bpye 8y agoI have no idea how reliable statista [1] is, but they seem to agree. It seems kinda insane though so I'm hesistant to believe it... [1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/274772/forecast-of-mobile-phone-users-in-canada/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/274772/forecast-of-mobil...
- KorematsuFred 8y agoActually It is something like 25M total mobile phone users. But 30M is a reasonably good upper bound.
- sn41 8y agoI use Apple Music on Android, in India. (The list of Indian titles available in Apple Music has been impressive, so I am inferring from that there's enough demand to keep the catalogue updated.)
- shubhamjain 8y agoThis includes both free and paid tiers. I am not sure if there's a strong reason to celebrate. I would speculate that most of these users are in the free tier. Spotify's catalogue for India is severely limited with the feud they are having with WMG, which makes it—despite being the best music streaming app—quite an unattractive option.
- ing33k 8y agoActually it's not too bad. I was able to find most of my favorite Kannada and Telugu Songs.
- ing33k 8y agoI was more than happy to cancel my Apple Music Account as soon as I was able to install Spotify in India. I primariy use an Android Device and use an iPhone as a bakup device. Apple mucic app on Android sucks.
- sanketskasar 8y agoI am on an iPhone and an Apple Music user. Got Spotify premium the very first day hoping to find good curated playlists. To my shock, I couldn't find a lot of mainstream Indian and International tracks, very limited playlists, and ever more limited regional and classical music curation. Cancelled my subscription just yesterday and got the refund. Apple Music still remains the go-to music platform in India despite so many competitors.
- yash1th 8y agoI’ve used for a few months before jumping to AM. The reason I moved was due to lack of indian songs library on Spotify. Although, initially AM sucked with their collection, at least it have some of the regional indian songs I wanted. I’m so glad I stuck with it, because lots and lots of indian albums have been added and continues to do so.
- r_singh 8y agoYou'd be more interested in knowing that Apple Music's family offering (for 6 users) is for $2.54/mo in India. Yes that's correct, $2.54 for 6 users!!!
- OJFord 8y agoIt's not shocking without comparing spending powers though. What's the price of roughly equivalent street foods in Mumbai vs. New York, for example. I'd wager the multiple's not far off that between 6 user Spotify in the two countries.
- r_singh 8y agoYup, I agree, and that's a smart move by these international cos. The average Indian street food in Mumbai for 1 person is half a dollar.