And so the wars begin in earnest and at first look, Apple has done a good job of integrating their streaming service into their Itunes library. I said at first look, I am already having problems on the client. I prefer the Itunes search engine to Spotify but otherwise, Spotify is superior
Apple is being sued for allegedly removing from iPods, songs that were purchased on rival companies’ download services! You mean like Amazon?? I still have all my Amazon downloads so I am not sure I understand why it happened to some people but this is what they claim…
If U2 released the album normally, well, maybe it would have sold 2M copies worldwide, maybe not. But it certainly and under no circumstances would have been downloaded 26M times. That is a huge number. Who cares how many people deleted it? An irrelevant number
They would change to what is called the Lightning connector, or port, and with Beats, they would make special headphones that would be Apple-only. They’re creating a more and more exclusive market this way.
“Music is such an important part of all of our lives and holds a special place within our hearts at Apple. That’s why we have kept investing in music and are bringing together these extraordinary teams so we can continue to create the most innovative music products and services in the world.”
Now one of two things will happen. Either their clientele will get the message and stop buying music, or they won’t get the message and Spotify will beat ITunes. Either way, Apple is completely and totally fucked
