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Obviously Apple can afford to pay money out to the recording artists and labels for the free trial if they wanted to, but I wonder if the decision not to is rel
by Tycho 11y ago
Obviously Apple can afford to pay money out to the recording artists and labels for the free trial if they wanted to, but I wonder if the decision not to is related to setting a precedent. Like if they were to compensate all the artists $X per day of availability then that would be a sort of legal benchmark that could come back to haunt them.
- anigbrowl 11y agoOf course. They['re trying to shift risk onto the creator. Now in fairness, Apple has put a lot of capital at risk by building the streaming infrastructure and so on for the service to work reliably and be considered a 'world class' product like their other offerings. On the other hand. Apple is arguably sitting on top of the world's largest cash pile so the ratio of capital-at-risk relative to their capital cushion is a lot different from that of 99% of musicians.