Philip Houska Apple Music and Spotify, rivals in the field of music streaming services, show regular increases in their subscriber bases. Sweden's Spotify has an advantage over Apple's service in that it has been on the market for several years longer and continues to grow by about half a million monthly users more than Apple Music.
Since March, Spotify's paying base has grown by 10 million users. Spotify now has 40 million subscribers, CEO Daniel Ek noted on Twitter. Apple Music, which in September reported 17 million subscribers, so despite its constant growth it is still losing.
While, according to available data, Spotify is growing at a rate of roughly three million new users in two months, Apple Music is gaining only two million listeners in the same period of time.
40 is the new 30.
million. ?- Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) September 14, 2016
Apple also commented on the July report The Wall Street Journal, that he had an Apple negotiate a possible purchase of the Tidal music service. The head of Apple Music, Jimmy Iovine, did not deny possible meetings between the two parties, but at the same time said that the acquisition of Tidal is not in Apple's plan. "We really go for ourselves. We have no intention of buying other streaming services," he said BuzzFeed.
The free strategy bears fruit, those ads are also not a suitable application and a problem. For most of the year, the paid version wouldn't be worth it, but as soon as winter starts and you're stuck at home, I don't hesitate with the paid one. well maglaijs
I agree, the thing that bothers me the most is that the link from iTunes leads straight to the music, so it is not even possible to give a link to a paid album today. This is called a spring.