bitmod

I’ve extensively used and reviewed all the main streaming music services... so I can actually speak from experience. 

Spotify is by far the best at curation, best GUI, ease of use, and connectivity. 
Tidal is by far the best sounding service with hifi streams and MQA - with the limited library they have.
Apple Music is the default pre-installed app. In the pack with Pandora, Last FM, Rdio, Google Play, Rhapsody etc... functional, but shines at nothing. 

Apple has the native integration on its devices (yet oddly enough Spotify Connect works better on them), so it’s no surprise that Apple is getting leverage from its platform in the US. 

The real question is, how many people on Windows or Android are installing AM? it’s negligible. 
Meaning that AM success is limited to Apple’s market share on it’s devices. 
While Apple is seeing remarkable success in the US of subscriptions on their platform - it is for now, quite limited in its growth potential. Although it’s a considerable market potential. 

Lets not forget that the concept of music Streaming Services is still in its infancy. 
Spotify is not limited to a single platform, and is overall a better platform - for now. 

I don’t see this industry having a clear winner one day with a total monopoly - it’s the last thing the music industry wants. Good for Apple, good for Spotify and all the others. A new industry is booming and people are finding a new appreciation for music. Everyone wins. 

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mark fearing said:

Apple Music is just doing a better job at reaching and serving demand. That's it.

barf

lkrupp said:

Canada, for example, levies a 250% tariff on milk imported from the U.S. for the express purpose of protecting its dairy farmers from vastly more efficient and productive American dairy farmers.

Again, why is it a one-way street?

Oozing with growth hormones and antibiotics - you forgot the part where the vastly more efficient and productive American dairy products are oozing with growth hormones and antibiotics... 
You know, the stuff making people very sick and grossly obese and immune to antibiotics. 

Then there is the problem with insane over-production that has crashed market so low that there are no more small farmers - and the mega corporations dump over 50 MILLION gallons annually. 

Sooooo... massively overproduced toxic product that destroyed thousands of livelihood’s, sick and dying population, and an entire industry that can’t sustain itself - - - it’s a one-way street because US dairy is the Hwy of Death. 

Pretty sure they got a good discount on those.

jgojcaj said:

AMAZINGGG...
In the meantime, though, Apple- Can you fix the MBP keyboard? Thanks a bunch. 

No shit, right!?
I like my computer companies to focus on technology that my business needs to operate... not daytime TV windbags. 
Like those Mac Pros they promised 4 years ago... we get Oprah instead.