To Apple, this is a business to keep more of their customers locked into the Applesphere. As long as they're retained, they can tax all commerce associated with these people: apps, subscriptions, payments, media, etc.
They're operating like a machine with a glazed and polished process.
Apple doesn't love music or musicians. If they did, they wouldn't pull this shit.
Meanwhile, the person you responded to is a creator and just wants a basic level of service.
Maybe you should listen to people raising their voices instead of defending a company that certainly doesn't need your help.
Wait, so you automatically dislike anything that is above {certain capital amount}? The typical pub argument driven by beer and class warfare memes, I see. How insightful.
Apple will be just fine under your vicious criticism even it was bankrupt, because none of this is about Apple per se, it's about us trying to figure out the world around us in a forum. Apple isn't part of this, no one in there will read this noise. But you've figured everything out, apparently: "X rich, so X evil on purpose".
I wasn't "defending" Apple, but describing something that happens in virtually any service of scale, be it private or public. It would be an interesting discussion how we can organize our systems to improve on such problems, but that discussion can't really happen, when met with the banality of your premature conclusions.
You don't need to respond like this.
> something that happens in virtually any service of scale,
A music and artist focused startup or business has no problem catering to artists. Apple doesn't have the bandwidth, care, or attention to care as much. They're using this service to soak up attention and entrench their moat.
Unfortunately, Apple and the FAMGA giants soak up all the revenue and attention. If the DOJ stepped in and required these companies to split along business unit lines, the probability we'd be having this discussion would be much lower.
> Apple isn't part of this, no one in there will read this noise. But you've figured everything out, apparently: "X rich, so X evil on purpose".
Apple is part of a recent trend of tech monopolies consuming all markets. I'm not trying to reach Apple, I'm talking with my legislators. My hope is that the DOJ will break up these companies so that good, healthy competition can take place again.
A company that cares deeply about music and artists would serve everyone better than Apple. Or Google. Or Amazon.
You forgot to name one.
> My hope is that the DOJ will break up these companies so that good, healthy competition can take place again.
You think DOJ has to break up Apple Music off so this artist up there will be allowed to post non-face face photos on his account.
Nice. A bit killing a fly with a tank, if you ask me.
> A company that cares deeply about music and artists would serve everyone better than Apple. Or Google. Or Amazon.
We have lots of those companies. And I don't see how they're strictly "better" than Apple, Google or Amazon. Each has their fans and users. Your problem is clearly absolutely unrelated to what the artist up there complained about.