“Interestingly, Apple Music will also be available on Android and Windows, which doesn’t matter from a revenue standpoint, but could help Apple attract incremental iPhone buyers from competitive platforms”.
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In what appeared to be an inevitable scenario, Prince has decided to pull his music from online music streaming sites, but he’s still on Tidal and Deezer it seems. Whether you’ve got your eye on it or are just wondering what all the fuss is about we’ve got the answers you need.
In 2011, he apparently reiterated his position in another interview.
“Speaking to The Guardian in 2011, Prince said: “[Musicians] made money [online] before piracy was real insane. The Verge’s sources say that the company is trying to make a “unique” product but the particulars of how that will be achieved may still be left to be determined. It’s like the gold rush out there. “So I’ll just hold off on recording”. Another post he retweeted from Billboard notes that the Department of Justice is considering a reform of the rules that govern how music publishers license digital music. I’ve been in meetings and they’ll tell you, Prince, you don’t understand, it’s dog-eat-dog out there.
The Connect tab will be replaced with a list of your playlists, which is nice to have front and center instead of hidden inside the My Music tab. When you play it back, you can’t feel anything. “We were doing better because people were still buying the physical product”. They keep running towards streaming, which is, for the most part, what has been shrinking the numbers of paid album sales.
Prince, however, is still using SoundCloud to distribute new music.
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Only Apple Music has these streaming music holdouts; sorry Spotify and Rdio. It has a media platform that will let artists upload songs, videos, and other content, and it has a song catalog of more than 30 million tracks.
