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If you think Jay-Z wasn't, and isn't, important to rap, hip-hop, and popular music and culture then you really have a lot of research to do. You may not like his music, or his personality, or whatever, but his impact is pretty undeniable.

Other services are worse for not having his oeuvre, but it makes sense he's working to double-down on Tidal given his personal stake in it.  At the end of the day, however,  there's still plenty of other ways to get the music, and it probably only hurts him to not have it as readily available as it could be.

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macxpress said:

Could AI have found a more insulting picture for this article? 

Yes, absolutely. How about this one or this one, or this one, or if we wanted to really skeevy how about something like this. I mean, take your pick really. We could go lots of ways with it.

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firelock said:

I'm a big fan of Apple News. Glad to hear it is working out better than Newstand.

As someone who works at an independent publisher (especially this one) my feelings on Apple News are... complex. We've run afoul of them a couple times already just due to the nature of our content. I worry greatly about the balance of power there, should it become a significant slice of traffic. Thankfully? Right now we're not seeing anything like the numbers the Telegraph does.

To be honest, all these non-interoperable closed gardens make me really nervous. Though as of right now, by the numbers at least, AMP scares me a lot more than Apple News does. That's a whole separate topic though.

That's not to say AN is a bad platform or app or user experience, because I don't think it is, but it's far from a perfect solution too. That's my ramble.