Has Apple already given up on Apple Music?

[BroadcastDoc]

Granted, this is done by an analyst so it's as much of a guess as anything, but the reports of Apple Music's demise may be premature. ;-)

http://9to5mac.com/2015/12/17/apple-music-paid-subscribers-estimate/

 

[navaira]

I think Apple Music has the advantage of being an Apple product. A lot of people who never tried a streaming service will try AM simply because their phone says "hey, here's a free trial". Also it is not really fair to compare Spotify's rise to 20M paying subscribers within years with AM's months, because Spotify was the first to show people what streaming does. It was a new category. There is a reason why first revision of iPhone sold 6.1 million and 6S sold over 13 million on the launch weekend.

If the matching actually worked I'd probably have moved to AM by now. It doesn't work. I'm staying with Spotify. It's not perfect but it doesn't "remix" my library.

 

[whsbuss]

I think Apple Music has the advantage of being an Apple product. A lot of people who never tried a streaming service will try AM simply because their phone says "hey, here's a free trial". Also it is not really fair to compare Spotify's rise to 20M paying subscribers within years with AM's months, because Spotify was the first to show people what streaming does. It was a new category. There is a reason why first revision of iPhone sold 6.1 million and 6S sold over 13 million on the launch weekend.

If the matching actually worked I'd probably have moved to AM by now. It doesn't work. I'm staying with Spotify. It's not perfect but it doesn't "remix" my library.

Yes, we know your opinion.

 

[Uofmtiger]

it is not really fair to compare Spotify's rise to 20M paying subscribers within years with AM's months, because Spotify was the first to show people what streaming does. It was a new category.

If the matching actually worked I'd probably have moved to AM by now. It doesn't work. I'm staying with Spotify. It's not perfect but it doesn't "remix" my library.

1. Spotify was not on the ground floor of streaming. They launched in Oct 2008. Rhapsody launched in December 2001. I agree that market is bigger now, but is also more competitive...just ask Rdio or Mog. (Spotify was the first with freemium streaming which accounts for their large user base, but Apple doesn't compete in the freemium space)

2. Matching works for 25,000 songs from my library, so it apparently works for some people. I know one notorious (extremely vocal) idiot that somehow deleted all his music and didn't have a backup, but I would wonder just how commonplace that was with Apple holding on to so many trial subscribers? If they somehow mismatch a few songs, I don't really consider that a major crime, either. It doesn't have any affect on my home library (which is backed up - by the way), so if one of the hundreds of Beatles songs in my collection is matched as a live version instead of a studio version (which I have not ever run across), then at least I still have the hundreds of other Beatles songs to listen to while I am on the road. Spotify can't put any of my music in the cloud. Also, when I am home, I can just use home sharing in Apple Music for my main library.

 

[Prabas]

I used it since day one, I really wanted it to stick, but it drained my battery drastically, even though I had my music cached locally and another deal breaker was constant restrictions bug that disabled explicit content every single day. I had to to go restrictions settings every morning to turn explicit content on, even though restrictions were off to begin with.

I thought everything was going to be fixed within few months so I kept using it, but after 6-7 months nothing has changed. I submitted bug reports and feedback to Apple a long time ago, I guess that didn't help. I thought that I could later join AM when the bugs were fixed, but then I read that they keep AM playlists only for three months. So I'd have to start again from scratch. Well, hello again, Spotify.

 

[Tech198]

No, because the phrase "given up" implies that they were even trying in the first place.

Technically they probably are trying... and trying..... and trying..