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  • Apple Music estimated at 21M North American listeners, converting at 2.5 times rate of Spo...

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    davgreg said:
    Back when Apple overpaid for Beats iTunes had 800-900 million accounts and after all this time and all the free giveaways of trails they have 20 million paying customers? I would call that a flop despite the endless hype.

    If you were a salesman and I gave you a contact list of better than 3/4 of a billion accounts and you could not convert but 20 million to the new product, the review would be that either you were not a good salesman or the product sucked. We all know Apple has spent a fortune promoting rental rap from ads to free trials, so the other possibility would be a good take. The entire market after all this time is less than the population of Texas.

    Flop.
    Not sure if you're being sarcastic but you're comparing GLOBAL iTunes accounts to North American Apple Music subscribers(with a 2.5x rate of Spotify).

    That's like giving a sales man 900 million customers around the world but you only count his sales in North America.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's Mac, iPad top PC & tablet satisfaction, but Amazon & Samsung close behind

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    What would Amazon and Samsung customers think if they knew their knockoff devices were selling their personal data?

    RichFromIndy said:
    All these little jabs at Amazon ("just a glorified book reader," "eating from the dumpster") show that half a decade later and the tech nerds still fail to get Amazon's tablet business. You're comparing how the New England Patriots play football with how the Cleveland Cavaliers play basketball. They're two different things. A person buys an Amazon tablet for something different than why they buy an iPad. In fact, I would venture to say that many, many Fire tablets are owned by people who also own another tablet. The Fire tablet is a super easy terminal / window into Amazon products . It's one of the most user-friendly ways to consume Kindle books, Audible audiobooks, Prime videos, Kindle magazines....and one of the most affordable "smart displays" on the market, utilizing Alexa and the "Echo Show" UI owned by Amazon. A person would not expect to pay $600 for a metal or glass Amazon terminal. And of course, Amazon makes a ton of money, not directly but indirectly because of the tablets. It's a different sort of device altogether that, when it's taken off it's Alexa Show Mode Dock, just happens to also look like a tablet. Fire tablets are not competing with iPads any more than your TV is.

    Fire tablets are just iPad knockoffs.

    Stop trying to be deep about it. 
    watto_cobra

  • Why did Apple spend $400M to acquire Shazam?

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    I was elated when I heard apple bought Shazam. It all made sense!

    Firefly was my favorite feature of the crappy iWannabe Amazon released.

    rogifan_new said:
    I wish Apple would buy Sirius and make it less garbage with CarPlay. Right now Sirius on CarPlay is a dumpster fire.

    I mentioned Apple Music could use more live radio like Sirius does. Didn't think of a Sirius acquisition, sounds like a good idea.

    Or Apple can start creating new stations like Beats Electronic, Beats Rock, Apple News Radio etc.
    watto_cobra

  • Marc Benioff reveals Siri integration with Salesforce Einstein, lauds Apple's Cook

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    This is huge but when the hell is Apple gonna use their VocalIQ acquisition? This would be perfect!

    VocalIQ can understand natural sentences like "What's a good gluten-free sandwich in this hotel?"
    watto_cobra

  • Apple taps Compal to expand Apple Watch Series 4 production capacity

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    Supercycles for iPhones and Apple Watch!!

    If new Bezel-less iPads come this Holiday than my goodness, so many super cycles!!!!
    watto_cobra