So how much does Apple have to shell out for this exclusive? People hate exclusivity. I hope it doesn't happen very often. And I'm sure it won't as the DOJ and EU would be all over that in a heartbeat.
I was joking, but you are serious LOL.
If all that the self-important tech sites and bloggers can do is take shots at Apple with their editorials (backed by like-minded forum users who secretly covet exclusive content for their Android phones), then let them troll. We've already seen that Apple listens to no one except Taylor Swift and the Chinese market.
Why? Why do you hate Spotify so much? I'm sorry but I find this whole idea of "winning" being opening up the checkbook to buy exclusivity with big name artists kind of distasteful. There's nothing innovative about that. Plus it's in Apple's interest for Spotify and others to be successful. Just like it was in Microsoft's interest that Apple remain a viable alternative in the PC space.
I don't want Apple to be the only streaming game in town. But Spotify has played dirty, now they need to get what's coming to them. They've been stirring all this antitrust crap up.
It's business, everybody plays dirty. They offered a service with terms, and those terms were accepted.
I'm getting old, don't have any idea who most of these "stars" are.
He's more of a composer/producer than an actual singer, but lately he's known more for the latter. He was part of a production team called the Neptunes. It may seem like he burst out of nowhere and onto the music scene but he's actually been in the industry for over 20 yrs.
So how much does Apple have to shell out for this exclusive? People hate exclusivity. I hope it doesn't happen very often. And I'm sure it won't as the DOJ and EU would be all over that in a heartbeat.
Why have your posts been so irrationally negative over the past few months?
I wonder how many times I'll get to hear the word, "freedom" repeated in this song, or how many times I'll have to hear the song every time I turn on the TV. Yes, you may have guessed by now, I hated the repetitive, monotonous "Happy" with a white-hot passion that only grew each new time it was forced down my throat.
In this one he repeats the word a lot but also splits the word up:
He does adjust how he repeats the word 'freedom', he screams it the first 3 times in the chorus and then does it a different way:
[VIDEO]
I quite liked the song Happy. The Freedom one has a catchy sound but I don't like it. The audience seemed to like it ok though. Individual tastes aren't going to determine how popular a song is.
I absolutely hate all the exclusives in the gaming industry. I think the decision having the very popular Tomb Raider game be a timed exclusive on Xbox One is really going to backfire. I've been a big fan of that franchise, but I will not be buying it when it finally releases on the PS4. I think many people who only have the PS4 will not be buying it either due to the exclusive bs.
People will buy it if the product is good enough. Some exclusive games I've missed completely like The Last of Us but Alan Wake made it to the PC after 2 years. Tomb Raider is a good franchise so I'll support the game and forget the politics behind it.
It just takes 1 service to do an exclusive to mess everything up anyway. If Apple (and we could be talking about Iovine here) agreed to have no exclusives and Spotify comes along with one exclusive, people would just say they could get everything Apple Music has but also the exclusive so it's better and Apple loses business. If consoles had no exclusives, there's a very real possibility that one of them could sell close to zero units.
Exclusivity is one of those odd things that's sort of anti-competitive both ways. If someone has an exclusive then other services can't compete for business. If nobody has exclusive content (a unique selling point) then none are any better than the other so where does the competitive element come from? That just puts price ahead of everything else. Everybody can sell books but few people can compete with Amazon on price and not because Amazon is the best company.
Video streaming services are all aiming to tie up exclusive content deals because that's the only way they can have a competitive advantage.
Apple does this with hardware where their OS is exclusive to the hardware. If Apple allowed iOS to run on any device, their revenue would collapse to a fraction of what it is.
Right now, Apple needs to convince people who are entrenched with Spotify away from that service. If Spotify users can get everything that's on Apple Music, they're not moving anywhere because it's cheaper. This is where Iovine is going to make his mark because he's even got Jay Z calling on him to not being too hard on Tidal. Nobody's calling on Spotify because they have no leverage with artists:
Jay Z pointed out there that this isn't as much about the services as the musicians. Spotify isn't paying the artists enough so there needs to be a better model. Artists should really be getting a higher portion of the royalties too but the revenues from advertising-supported systems isn't enough. These labels have to pay for their own advertising so you can't support artists that need to be marketed themselves with revenue from marketing other products. People need to pay for audio content just like they do for movies. There's no ad-supported movie service because it would never pay enough. Netflix subscriptions barely pay enough for good content.
Drake, no dis, but what was he thinking up there? It was like he was pulled in last minute, with no preparation, barely knowing what it was he was supposed to be talking about.. I felt so bad for him...
Neither did Christy Turlington Burns. She flew in for the Watch keynote and kind of smiled and exchanged pleasantries with Tim Cook.
Mostly about Apple Music. I think it's been sort of a clusterf*ucj so far and not worthy of a "one more thing" from Apple.
No, it hasn't been about Apple Music mostly, that was just announced a couple weeks ago. Stop lying. He said "few months", which is true. You've become quite the troll. How the hell is it a "clusterfuck" when it hasn't even launched yet, and you have not given it a chance? It seems to be a very well rounded package at a more than reasonable price, but all you've done is bitch, whine, and attack it while NEVER, EVER offering any kind of alternative or real reason. Apple Music will be huge, and definitely worthy of "one more thing", except to irrational haters like you. I noticed you also troll Apple on Macrumors (even though I've only visited their forums a handful of times) - you certainly have time in your day to get around.
Maybe once in a while chill out and give the products from the company you claim to like a chance, before making hundreds of posts trashing them with no reasons given.
For people who do not have the selected home for the exclusive it makes them mad they lose out on something they won't.
Everyone will have an opportunity to try AppleMusic for free and not "lose out" on anything exclusive. My hunch is that the exclusivity period for this song (and maybe others) won't last beyond the end of the free trial.
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For those who do have said service it makes no difference except for some it becomes asshole Bragging rights.
People who try AppleMusic will temporarily have some content that is unavailable elsewhere, and if they value that content, then it made a difference. Asshole bragging rights? Are you picturing someone running around singing "I have Pharrell's new song, and you don't"?
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And worst case scenario everyone starts doing this. Now Apple has the new album for artist x while Spotify has the album for artist Y and Google has artist z. And poor you are fan of all three.
I don't think it will turn into that. These exclusives are time limited.
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BTW it does not make people switch services. As I'm certain no one on this site would switch from Apple music to Google music to follow their favorite artist. They will just say Google is bad.
Maybe nobody on this site, because we are somewhat biased (justifiably so, or not). But if you think that your typical young music fan won't follow their favorite artist to another service, then you are severely out-of-touch.
No I think it's bad in general and I'm disappointed that Apple is joining in. Btw, I thought it was silly and hypocritical when Target complained about Beyoncé because they do the same damn thing. My guess is this won't be exclusive for very long. Pharrell wants as many people as possible hearing his stuff and Apple doesn't want to give the DOJ or EU an easy target.
Verge is now a piece of shit site. The hack job perfunctory review of the Apple Watch (on which they were showed up as IDIOTS) proves just that. Go to real tech sites with a solid technical expertise and not self promoting hacks who play a hand way large than their competency for info.
BTW, the god damn artist (and any service or product provider) can sell his wares however he feels like it; including exclusivity. There's hundred's of year of precedence on this... That's how capitalism work. Ain't it grand...
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I ike Pharrell, he's a very nice guy.
Ah ha! I knew there was a reason AAPL was up almost 2% today!!
Ah ha! I knew there was a reason AAPL was up almost 2% today!!
Ichan tweeted today.
It's all because of one song. Impressive! /s
I was joking, but you are serious LOL.
If all that the self-important tech sites and bloggers can do is take shots at Apple with their editorials (backed by like-minded forum users who secretly covet exclusive content for their Android phones), then let them troll. We've already seen that Apple listens to no one except Taylor Swift and the Chinese market.
It's business, everybody plays dirty. They offered a service with terms, and those terms were accepted.
He's more of a composer/producer than an actual singer, but lately he's known more for the latter. He was part of a production team called the Neptunes. It may seem like he burst out of nowhere and onto the music scene but he's actually been in the industry for over 20 yrs.
So how much does Apple have to shell out for this exclusive? People hate exclusivity. I hope it doesn't happen very often. And I'm sure it won't as the DOJ and EU would be all over that in a heartbeat.
Why have your posts been so irrationally negative over the past few months?
Which one is false? The one you wrote or the one you quoted?
In this one he repeats the word a lot but also splits the word up:
http://genius.com/Pharrell-williams-freedom-lyrics
"Your first name is Free
Last name is Dom
Your first name is King
Last name is Dom"
Dom is pronounced dumb i.e 'Your last name is dumb'. I'm guessing he wrote the lyrics, he seems to write a lot of songs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_written_by_Pharrell_Williams
He does adjust how he repeats the word 'freedom', he screams it the first 3 times in the chorus and then does it a different way:
[VIDEO]
I quite liked the song Happy. The Freedom one has a catchy sound but I don't like it. The audience seemed to like it ok though. Individual tastes aren't going to determine how popular a song is.
People will buy it if the product is good enough. Some exclusive games I've missed completely like The Last of Us but Alan Wake made it to the PC after 2 years. Tomb Raider is a good franchise so I'll support the game and forget the politics behind it.
It just takes 1 service to do an exclusive to mess everything up anyway. If Apple (and we could be talking about Iovine here) agreed to have no exclusives and Spotify comes along with one exclusive, people would just say they could get everything Apple Music has but also the exclusive so it's better and Apple loses business. If consoles had no exclusives, there's a very real possibility that one of them could sell close to zero units.
Exclusivity is one of those odd things that's sort of anti-competitive both ways. If someone has an exclusive then other services can't compete for business. If nobody has exclusive content (a unique selling point) then none are any better than the other so where does the competitive element come from? That just puts price ahead of everything else. Everybody can sell books but few people can compete with Amazon on price and not because Amazon is the best company.
Video streaming services are all aiming to tie up exclusive content deals because that's the only way they can have a competitive advantage.
Apple does this with hardware where their OS is exclusive to the hardware. If Apple allowed iOS to run on any device, their revenue would collapse to a fraction of what it is.
Right now, Apple needs to convince people who are entrenched with Spotify away from that service. If Spotify users can get everything that's on Apple Music, they're not moving anywhere because it's cheaper. This is where Iovine is going to make his mark because he's even got Jay Z calling on him to not being too hard on Tidal. Nobody's calling on Spotify because they have no leverage with artists:
http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-rumors-jimmy-iovine-tidal-2015-3
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6516928/jay-z-tidal-jimmy-iovine-interview
Jay Z pointed out there that this isn't as much about the services as the musicians. Spotify isn't paying the artists enough so there needs to be a better model. Artists should really be getting a higher portion of the royalties too but the revenues from advertising-supported systems isn't enough. These labels have to pay for their own advertising so you can't support artists that need to be marketed themselves with revenue from marketing other products. People need to pay for audio content just like they do for movies. There's no ad-supported movie service because it would never pay enough. Netflix subscriptions barely pay enough for good content.
Mostly about Apple Music. I think it's been sort of a clusterf*ucj so far and not worthy of a "one more thing" from Apple.
Neither did Christy Turlington Burns. She flew in for the Watch keynote and kind of smiled and exchanged pleasantries with Tim Cook.
Mostly about Apple Music. I think it's been sort of a clusterf*ucj so far and not worthy of a "one more thing" from Apple.
No, it hasn't been about Apple Music mostly, that was just announced a couple weeks ago. Stop lying. He said "few months", which is true. You've become quite the troll. How the hell is it a "clusterfuck" when it hasn't even launched yet, and you have not given it a chance? It seems to be a very well rounded package at a more than reasonable price, but all you've done is bitch, whine, and attack it while NEVER, EVER offering any kind of alternative or real reason. Apple Music will be huge, and definitely worthy of "one more thing", except to irrational haters like you. I noticed you also troll Apple on Macrumors (even though I've only visited their forums a handful of times) - you certainly have time in your day to get around.
Maybe once in a while chill out and give the products from the company you claim to like a chance, before making hundreds of posts trashing them with no reasons given.
Exclusive? The whole song is already on youtube. Great live ver. I must say.
For people who do not have the selected home for the exclusive it makes them mad they lose out on something they won't.
Everyone will have an opportunity to try AppleMusic for free and not "lose out" on anything exclusive. My hunch is that the exclusivity period for this song (and maybe others) won't last beyond the end of the free trial.
For those who do have said service it makes no difference except for some it becomes asshole Bragging rights.
People who try AppleMusic will temporarily have some content that is unavailable elsewhere, and if they value that content, then it made a difference. Asshole bragging rights? Are you picturing someone running around singing "I have Pharrell's new song, and you don't"?
And worst case scenario everyone starts doing this. Now Apple has the new album for artist x while Spotify has the album for artist Y and Google has artist z. And poor you are fan of all three.
I don't think it will turn into that. These exclusives are time limited.
BTW it does not make people switch services. As I'm certain no one on this site would switch from Apple music to Google music to follow their favorite artist. They will just say Google is bad.
Maybe nobody on this site, because we are somewhat biased (justifiably so, or not). But if you think that your typical young music fan won't follow their favorite artist to another service, then you are severely out-of-touch.
Exclusive? The whole song is already on youtube. Great live ver. I must say.
I think that YouTube is a different type of thing altogether and may be outside the exclusivity arrangements.
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No I think it's bad in general and I'm disappointed that Apple is joining in. Btw, I thought it was silly and hypocritical when Target complained about Beyoncé because they do the same damn thing. My guess is this won't be exclusive for very long. Pharrell wants as many people as possible hearing his stuff and Apple doesn't want to give the DOJ or EU an easy target.
Verge is now a piece of shit site. The hack job perfunctory review of the Apple Watch (on which they were showed up as IDIOTS) proves just that. Go to real tech sites with a solid technical expertise and not self promoting hacks who play a hand way large than their competency for info.
BTW, the god damn artist (and any service or product provider) can sell his wares however he feels like it; including exclusivity. There's hundred's of year of precedence on this... That's how capitalism work. Ain't it grand...