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> ...or at least part of it since this is ultimately a mutually beneficial arrangement. I agree with most of your comment but wanted to flag this... I don't t
by chasing 11y ago
> ...or at least part of it since this is ultimately a mutually beneficial arrangement.
I agree with most of your comment but wanted to flag this...
I don't think it's that mutually beneficial. Apple gets the reward of stealing valuable market share from Spotify, Rdio, etc. The labels just receive a different flavor of what they already have: Access to a streaming service that people subscribe to.
- culturestate 11y agoApple is supposedly paying ~1.5 points more than Spotify, so labels would presumably get _some_ benefit from consumers moving to Apple Music. If the consumers they convert come from any other service's free tier — which is admittedly unlikely to be a huge amount — the effect would be even more pronounced.