NY1822

I am an Apple Music subscriber and talking to my friends who use Spotify and not Apple Music, they say they would pay for Apple Music if when you "thumbs up"/ "like" a song, it adds that song to a "thumbs up playlist". Something so simple like that influences people...they spend so much time talking about curated playlists and algorithms and exclusives....the casual listener doesn't really care about that. They hear a song they like and want it in a playlist. Obviously you can just create a playlist and hit add to playlist, but some people are lazy, if that makes sense.

scouring the net, Amazon has sold between 8-9.5 million Echos (including lower tiered Dot).
http://www.investopedia.com/news/amazon-has-sold-82-million-echo-speakers-so-far-amzn-goog/

"Facial recognition is a convenient action to open your phone - similar to the 'swipe to unlock' action," the spokesperson said. "We offer the highest level of biometric authentication - fingerprint and iris - to lock your phone and authenticate access to Samsung Pay or Secure Folder."

The Galaxy S8 will also warn users who set up facial recognition that it's not as secure as the fingerprint or iris scanners and that it could be tricked with images that look similar to your face.

source: BusinessInsider

something seems a little fishy...25% growth in the last 5 months for a company that has been around....id like to see how much actual money they made.

So for example, last month the New York Times was offering free Spotity with a a subscription of the digital news....so if NYT paid spotify a lump sum one time payment, are these new subscribers counted as paid subscribers?

Love Apple music, especially its integration with Shazam...most of my friends still use Pandora. When I mention apple music to them, they are baffled....these are people in their 30's. They are the 9-5 job, have young children demographic.