If this is true it is quite sad...

Given the strength of Apple's presence in so many areas of modern technology, their constant/relentless attempts to block the efforts of anything that even appears to be competition does little more than indicate that they're not quite as confident in their wares as some might believe.

Healthy competition's is always a good thing, and when companies go out of their way to thwart it that the entire industry becomes stifiled and far less innovative than it ever should be.

Spotify is going to fail.  Label after label are pulling their music from the service.

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Originally Posted by fredaroony 

If this is true it is quite sad...

No proof, no evidence, just suspicions and rumors. No need to be sad unless, of course, you are predisposed to think the worst of Apple. Are you?

Great way to drum up some last minute publicity for your "iTunes-killer" (take a number, Lol) music service, Sean. 

Go to D10, and since you've got nothing else going for your service that never really took off in the way you dreamed, make up some stuff about "big bad Apple", and then dodge any requests for proof by alluding to your own "insider" knowledge:  "You hear things, people send you emails."

And *then*, backpedal just enough, and then make just enough conciliatory remarks that you *might* come off as "balanced":

"Parker admits that the music industry is not an overly important sector for Apple and it is unlikely that the company is too concerned with rivals like Spotify, saying "?[Music] is still such a small part of their overall business, it wouldn?t be hugely significant to their bottom line."

So Apple went out of their way to block a service that would have competed against Apple in a segment Apple no longer really cared about. 

Uh-huh.

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Originally Posted by DaHarder 

Given the strength of Apple's presence in so many areas of modern technology, their constant/relentless attempts to block the efforts of anything that even appears to be competition does little more than indicate that they're not quite as confident in their wares as some might believe.
Healthy competition's is always a good thing, and when companies go out of their way to thwart it that the entire industry becomes stifiled and far less innovative than it ever should be.

If you're talking about them protecting their IP in that first post, you need to step your game up.

This case is different from all that - if true it would be concerning. Apple doesn't even provide a competing subscription service!

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Originally Posted by lkrupp 

 

No proof, no evidence, just suspicions and rumors. No need to be sad unless, of course, you are predisposed to think the worst of Apple. Are you?

What part of "If this is true" did you not understand?

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Originally Posted by DaHarder 

Given the strength of Apple's presence in so many areas of modern technology, their constant/relentless attempts to block the efforts of anything that even appears to be competition does little more than indicate that they're not quite as confident in their wares as some might believe.
Healthy competition's is always a good thing, and when companies go out of their way to thwart it that the entire industry becomes stifiled and far less innovative than it ever should be.

Constant relentless attempts?

This is merely a feeling they had... And of course they would, Apple is the elephant in the room, the 800 pound gorilla look down over your shoulder.

It's been over 10 years and no one has come close. Spotify is NOT going to hurt Apple and they know that. Spotify is just another attempt at renting music. It will eventually fail.

It's people like you that make Fox News so dangerous... You just blindly listen to what someone says and take it as fact even when there is nothing that says it is.

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Originally Posted by Mike Fix 

Spotify is going to fail.  Label after label are pulling their music from the service.

Really?  I'm able to get just about anything I want on it.  Screw the record labels.  If they kill stuff like Spotify they really are idiots.

I wish Apple had succeeded. Spotify is bad for consumers, bad for musicians, bad for experiencing hi-fidelity music. Mastered for iTunes is the best way to experience digital music.