Please, please, please let this only be a rumor. I subscribe to (and adore) Spotify. Apple would just shelve it or ruin it (like it has done to other innovative companies).
Read somewhere recently where Spotify was particularly hated/feared by the music industry. Anybody know why that might be?
Spotify is part-owned by the major record labels.
However, there are a lot of independent record labels and artists who do hate it. The amount of money they get from the basic free streaming service is an insult.
Please, please, please let this only be a rumor. I subscribe to (and adore) Spotify. Apple would just shelve it or ruin it (like it has done to other innovative companies).
Agreed. Spotify is a brilliant service. It would be awful to see apple contaminate it. NOT in the consumer's interest AT ALL!!!!
I dunno. Apple bought Lala and nothing seems to have become of it except that the circle progress bar is now part of iTunes. Oh! and we can't hear music for free on Lala anymore. :-(
So they can shut it down just like they did with Lala? Yeah thanks Apple, real nice way to behave there. But in future, please develop your own services instead of just shutting down the competition.
Please, please, please let this only be a rumor. I subscribe to (and adore) Spotify. Apple would just shelve it or ruin it (like it has done to other innovative companies).
Where do people come up with this crap? What in idiotic position. Apple continues to out innovate everyone on the planet. There wouldn't be any legitimate online music business if Apple hadn't broken the mold.
I dunno. Apple bought Lala and nothing seems to have become of it except that the circle progress bar is now part of iTunes. Oh! and we can't hear music for free on Lala anymore. :-(
Another ignorant rant from someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. The problem with Lala isn't with Apple, its with the music labels. They are scared to death of Apple and aren't yet allowing Apple to make their play. As mentioned earlier, when one of these companies that have contracts with the music labels is acquired, their agreements with the labels are cancelled and have to be re-negotiated as they are not transferable due to "change in ownership" clauses in their contracts.
Where do people come up with this crap? What in idiotic position. Apple continues to out innovate everyone on the planet. There wouldn't be any legitimate online music business if Apple hadn't broken the mold.
yes there would. Napster changed the music industry not apple. Napster got sued and went legit dipshit
This is bad . No idea what happened to lala. Spotify really should have a foothold in the US, here in Europe it's extremely popular and reflects the new way in which people are willing to pay for music. (instead of illegaly downloading, which will always happen to some extent anyway). It's been integrated with Facebook as well here which is proving popular.
This is bad . No idea what happened to lala. Spotify really should have a foothold in the US, here in Europe it's extremely popular and reflects the new way in which people are willing to pay for music. (instead of illegaly downloading, which will always happen to some extent anyway). It's been integrated with Facebook as well here which is proving popular.
Yeah.. Instead of downloading for free people are streaming for free. Artists/ labels getting peanut money (see black and pink diagram above) It's as far from Fair Trade as you can possibly get. Some artists rebel against it, while most are afraid not to participate to loose popularity. All in all it's a really shady deal for everybody.
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Read somewhere recently where Spotify was particularly hated/feared by the music industry. Anybody know why that might be?
Spotify is part-owned by the major record labels.
However, there are a lot of independent record labels and artists who do hate it. The amount of money they get from the basic free streaming service is an insult.
Please, please, please let this only be a rumor. I subscribe to (and adore) Spotify. Apple would just shelve it or ruin it (like it has done to other innovative companies).
Agreed. Spotify is a brilliant service. It would be awful to see apple contaminate it. NOT in the consumer's interest AT ALL!!!!
Why buy France... just send a couple of people over there and they'll surrender. Give the country to you...
I think that is really insulting to France.
Read somewhere recently where Spotify was particularly hated/feared by the music industry. Anybody know why that might be?
To answer your question, I'll post this image. A lot of feelings and money involved.
The bigger the circle, the more plays/ sales is required to get the same money.
143 self pressed CD's generates the same money as 4.053.110 plays on Spotify.
Why buy France... just send a couple of people over there and they'll surrender. Give the country to you...
The French did not run in WWII. They lost. Which is different. The BEF also lost that initial part of the war.
Why buy France... just send a couple of people over there and they'll surrender. Give the country to you...
Ignorance must be bliss... France has one of the most glorious military history in the world, but a few ignoramuses seem conditioned to ignore it.
Educate yourself here: http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?...1&IBLOCK_ID=35
Please, please, please let this only be a rumor. I subscribe to (and adore) Spotify. Apple would just shelve it or ruin it (like it has done to other innovative companies).
Where do people come up with this crap? What in idiotic position. Apple continues to out innovate everyone on the planet. There wouldn't be any legitimate online music business if Apple hadn't broken the mold.
I dunno. Apple bought Lala and nothing seems to have become of it except that the circle progress bar is now part of iTunes. Oh! and we can't hear music for free on Lala anymore. :-(
Another ignorant rant from someone who doesn't know what they are talking about. The problem with Lala isn't with Apple, its with the music labels. They are scared to death of Apple and aren't yet allowing Apple to make their play. As mentioned earlier, when one of these companies that have contracts with the music labels is acquired, their agreements with the labels are cancelled and have to be re-negotiated as they are not transferable due to "change in ownership" clauses in their contracts.
Where do people come up with this crap? What in idiotic position. Apple continues to out innovate everyone on the planet. There wouldn't be any legitimate online music business if Apple hadn't broken the mold.
yes there would. Napster changed the music industry not apple. Napster got sued and went legit dipshit
Signed by an extremely happy european Spotify customer (and a couple hundreds of thousand more).
This is bad . No idea what happened to lala. Spotify really should have a foothold in the US, here in Europe it's extremely popular and reflects the new way in which people are willing to pay for music. (instead of illegaly downloading, which will always happen to some extent anyway). It's been integrated with Facebook as well here which is proving popular.
Yeah.. Instead of downloading for free people are streaming for free. Artists/ labels getting peanut money (see black and pink diagram above) It's as far from Fair Trade as you can possibly get. Some artists rebel against it, while most are afraid not to participate to loose popularity. All in all it's a really shady deal for everybody.