No, but Spotify is known for happily starving artists (via their label payouts) to increase its bottom line. For example, Apple Music pays nearly double the royalties Spotify does.
No, but Spotify is known for happily starving artists (via their label payouts) to increase its bottom line. For example, Apple Music pays nearly double the royalties Spotify does.
It took Spotify over a year to implement streaming over the cellular Apple Watch after the API was introduced
If you want to choose apple music over Spotify for the sake of the artists. Good. Though I'd also he cautious, Spotify does have a much stronger market share than apple in this regard but precedent seems to indicate that apple will happily leverage their strong position to squeeze money out of people.
These companies are all wanting to make more money, this money needs to come out of somewhere. Users, artists, developers...
We have 23 years of history (Apple's digital music services launched in 2001) showing that's not true, so I'll take that bet.
And the only thing that's changed about the App Store 30% cut implemented 15 years ago is that was halved for the vast majority of software sellers.
I know a minor band with a few 10's of thousands of Spotify plays and they make 10x more money out of Bandcamp and gigs than they do out of streaming services. And they can't live off that so have day jobs anyway.