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> Any competitor can license music from all of the music providers. There is no reason for most people to keep both Spotify and Apple Music. Android is 81% of
by com2kid 8y ago
> Any competitor can license music from all of the music providers. There is no reason for most people to keep both Spotify and Apple Music.
Android is 81% of the US market.
Unless Apple Music comes to android, I don't see Spotify being threatened.
- jkestner 8y agoConsider them threatened. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
- scarface74 8y agoDone https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.android.music&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr... Android may be “81%” of the market but then you have to subtract China and you have to take into account where the paying customers are. Apple has more than half the number of paying customers with a much smaller phone market share (https://www.cultofmac.com/605166/spotify-now-has-96-million-paying-subscribers/ https://www.cultofmac.com/605166/spotify-now-has-96-million-...) It’s well known that Android users don’t spend nearly as much as iOS users.
- saagarjha 8y agoApple Music is available on Android and the web. It’s not a “walled” service like iMessage or FaceTime is.
- ValentineC 8y ago> It’s not a “walled” service like iMessage or FaceTime is. Steve Jobs promised that FaceTime would be open source… eventually: https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-facetime-open-source-its-time/ https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-faceti... Any time now.
- saagarjha 8y agoIt’s walled because of patent litigation with VirnetX, not because Apple wanted to keep it walled.