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Apple Music's big problem is that the service itself offers nothing new - most of the people that are going to paid for paid music will use Spotify already, and
by kristianc 11y ago
Apple Music's big problem is that the service itself offers nothing new - most of the people that are going to paid for paid music will use Spotify already, and getting them to switch will be hard.
I suspect that Apple knows that the take up for the three month free trial will be huge, but that conversion to paid will be a much harder row to hoe.
This is all about Apple not wanting to foot the bill if and when people switch back to what they were doing already (Spotify, YouTube) without paying Apple a dime.
- madeofpalk 11y ago> Apple Music's big problem is that the service itself offers nothing new. Eh. Apple Music is mediocre and that's ok. It's instantly going to be the default music player on hundreds of millions of iPhones overnight. At worst, they're going to get the same usage as Spotify.
- kristianc 11y agoI'd suggest that most of the people that want to pay to stream music through their iPhones already use Spotify - the rest use YouTube and pay nothing. Apple pushing the labels to nix Spotify's freemium tier was no accident. Mediocre service + paid + Apple brand = no longer good enough.
- RexRollman 11y agoNone of the streaming services (including existing services Rdio and Spotify) offer anything unique. In my opinion, the only thing the truly separates them is catalogue size.
- kristianc 11y agoSpotify has a freemium tier that converts extraordinarily well.
- threeseed 11y agoApple Music does offer a number of features over Spotify: a) Siri. With the existing Music app I can tell Siri to play a particular artist or playlist. I would expect far deeper integration. b) Watch. The Music app is native, has a glance. c) Desktop. Spotify client on the desktop is slow and clunky. iTunes on the Mac is anything but.
- odiroot 11y agoReally, these are the only reasons? Then it's even worse than I thought. a) and c) are only relevant to Apple users. Spotify pretty much runs everywhere. b) Watch for many is just a gimmick. This is really weak.
- mcintyre1994 11y agoIt's been years since I used iTunes on Windows but at the time incredibly slow and clunky to the point of incompetence would have summed up my views on it. I wonder how it compares now to Spotify there. On another note, Apple have a pretty good story with Airplay - does Spotify on iOS support that fully? On Android they don't support Chromecast and I've always thought that was an advantage of Play Music over Spotify - maybe there's an analogous situation on iOS?
- petrbela 11y agoSpotify app itself doesn't support AirPlay/Chromecast but some 3rd party apps allow you to stream Spotify to them. On the other hand, Spotify has its own streaming protocol which is supported by a few player/speaker brands (e.g. Gramofon).