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Spotify Raises Prices for Second Time in 12 Months, Now More Expensive Than Apple Music
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is there a reason i should care about this? artists still choose them so they must be fine with it....
For some it might not be that it's one dollar more, but that it's 9.1 percent more. That's more than double the (3.4 percent) rate of inflation.
That's not really the point. If every subscription that people have in their lives goes up by a dollar, that adds up quickly.
Someone can opt out of a dinner out to save money, but trying to save on subscription usually means canceling them, which may come with penalties. The lock-in is why price increases can hurt.
I don't know which executive at Spotify thought "let's make our services more expensive than the competition's, while still not offering Spatial Audio or lossless quality"
...but I wonder if they'll make the Surprised Pikachu Face when their customers leave? 🤡
Considering that Spotify and Apple Music are pretty much the only two companies that compete for streaming music, I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple matches this Spotify pricing in the near future
I currently have the Apple Music family plan and I’m paying only $10.00/m because I get my Apple Music family through Verizon as an add on and I’m really hoping that the $10/m that I pay never increases and that I am grandfathered in to only paying $10.00/m but we’ll have to see what ends up happening
I currently have the Apple Music family plan and I’m paying only $10.00/m because I get my Apple Music family through Verizon as an add on and I’m really hoping that the $10/m that I pay never increases and that I am grandfathered in to only paying $10.00/m but we’ll have to see what ends up happening
I found myself increasingly not wanting to watch ads on YouTube, so I bought YouTube Premium, and to my surprise, YouTube Music is included, which I found was actually pretty good. Enough so that I cut Spotify.
If I were Apple, I would keep Music at the current price and slowly starve Spotify out, but what do I know about business.
And yet people complain about app developers getting only 70%/85% of proceeds, or the amount that Tim Cook is being paid.
It almost seems like facts only matter when they can be used to attack someone you don't like, but when they apply to your favourite company, then suddenly it becomes an inconvenient truth.
You are right in that a consumer probably doesn't have concern himself with how a company spends their funding, yet at the same time, you also have to wonder just where Spotify's money is going, what it means for the long-term sustainability of their business, and whether one might be better served by switching to Apple Music while the going is still good.
This is the company who on one hand has zero qualms about running to the EU regulators to complain about Apple, yet at the same time thinks nothing of stiffing music rights holders of their money (the inclusion of audiobooks means none of this $1 increase will go towards them). The hypocrisy here really could not be more stark, IMO.
Not great for them to be more expensive that their competitors but the lossless/spatial audio thing isn't hurting them really.
The research says they have industry leading customer retention. They also had their best year for user growth last year despite Apple offering lossless.
Spotify Has One Big Advantage on Every Other Streaming Service
Its customers are the least likely to cancel among major video or audio streaming services.
www.bloomberg.com
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I am nonplussed about the price hike obviously, but of all the apps on my devices - Spotify is the one I use the most, multiple times daily, on multiple devices - so frankly they could double the price and I'd probably still pay it. (but please don't Spotify)
Hardly anybody cares about lossless.
I think if you use it on mobile, it's kinda unusable on the free tier. At least that's my memory from the last time I tried it. On desktop, free's not bad.
3 months of streaming is a drop in the ocean but everyone bashed apple for taking that away for the free trial
I’m increasingly considering jumping ship from Spotify but I much prefer their UI to Apple Music. If Apple Music would offer a custom discounted services package rate along with my 6TB iCloud storage that would persuade me but I don’t see that happening. And before you ask, I don’t want all their other services, just AM and iCloud.
Interesting point. Bloomberg published some research on user churn for popular streaming services.
Look at the enormous spike for Apple Music when they put the price up in October 2023 !
Look at the enormous spike for Apple Music when they put the price up in October 2023 !
Spotify seems like it's gone up, but it really hasn't if you take them up on their fine print. Case in point, my monthly bill went from $9.99 and then jumped to $0. Sweet.
Not too surprising. Despite weaponizing the law to try and get more money, con man Ek’s business will never turn a profit. He’s still trying to delay the day his investors realize that.
You left out "Fire 1300 people and damage the quality of the service". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotify-ceo-shocked-negative-impact-164049736.html
Spotify is in trouble if they're sandwiching layoffs with price increases and whining about a regulatory environment they were born in.
I can think of no better way of demonstrating that the DMA was never intended to benefit consumers.