“Taking a break from his social media spat with pop singer Taylor Swift, rapper Kanye West this weekend took to Twitter to try to goad Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook into buying streaming music service Tidal.,” Patrick Seitz reports for Investor’s Business Daily.
“Late last month, Apple was rumored to be looking to buy Tidal, a streaming music service run by rap mogul Jay Z, to add more exclusive content for its own service, Apple Music. Tidal has strong ties to popular artists such as West, Beyonce, Rihanna and Madonna,” Seitz reports. “West is reportedly a Tidal shareholder.”
Seitz reports, “With takeover talks apparently stalled, West went on Twitter (TWTR) and posted one of his famous rants to prod an Apple Music-Tidal merger into happening.”
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/759436006810460160
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https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/759437257099010048
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/759449038097747968
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/759611680514990080
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MacDailyNews Take: Kanye West tries to goad Apple CEO Tim Cook to put Tidal out of its misery is more like it.
SEE ALSO:
Kanye West calls for Apple to buy Tidal, demands executive meeting – July 31, 2016
Apple buying Tidal would be a very savvy move – July 1, 2016
Why the heck would Apple want to buy Jay Z’s Tidal? – July 1, 2016
Why Apple buying Jay Z’s Tidal makes sense – and why it doesn’t – July 1, 2016
Desperate Spotify tries to manufacture an Apple App Store antitrust issue that does not exist – July 1, 2016
Spotify accuses Apple of ‘grave harm’ – July 1, 2016
Apple in talks to acquire Jay Z’s Tidal music service – June 30, 2016
Guess it didn’t work out with Zuckerberg.
And Tim’s way smarter.
You’d have to be pretty stupid to imagine that Apple would be persuaded by that sort of behaviour.
If he wants Apple to buy Tidal, he would do better to explain exactly how Apple buying Tidal might benefit Apple. Unfortunately he might have a problem coming up with any sort of sensible suggestion.
Apple only buys another company if it sees a clear benefit from doing so.
Trash just wants money… Nothing new.
Beef between Apple and Tidal? Is there an effect to the industry that Apple even notices that Tidal exists?
Kanye is in debt. Tidal is a major investment of his. Someone wants his money out.
kanye needs to go back into his Calabasassssss home and STFU. I dont think TC has this clown’s BS on the docket….
Ray Donovan FTW.
Can somebody PLEEEEEAZZZZE put this loser out of his misery? The world will thank you.
Well, that escalated quickly.
Dear Mr West
Kindly fsck off.
Ever yours
Tim
As an Apple Shareholder I would be supremely disappointed with Tim Cook if he concluded any type of deal with the “management team and shareholders” of Tidal.
Glad the stock price is recovering if I am forced to sell my shares by a deal with those sleazy #@$%#’s.
“Let the kids have the music.”
“Apple give Jay his check for Tidal now and stop trying to act like you Steve.”
I guess that Kanye West forgot to include in his tweets that he is a Tidal shareholder.
If Kanye West is dissing Taylor Swift on social media, then that’s all the more reason NOT to give Tidal a dime! (not to mention all the bashing Tidal backers have giving Apple)
Tidal is dead, there’s nothing here for Apple.
@kanyewest: “Ima gonna letchu finish” Tidal yourself. -Tim
I think he just lowered Tidal’s asking price by a few mil…way to go genius!
Tidal, wave bye bye.
K – POUND SAND – T
Those looking for money don’t run the show, Kanye. But use the word fsck just a little more, that will help.
I actually thought buying Tidal sounded like a really solid strategy that would further push artists to publicly support Apple Music. I also thought it would help Apple get the cool factor associated with Apple Music.
But after this desperate tweet for help, it’s apparent waiting Tidal out will suffice. Kanye West literally just told the world that Tidal wasn’t making any money. If it were, he’d be acting hard and acting like Apple Music better watch out for the up and coming Tidal. Neither are true. Thanks for clearing up the value debate, Kanye. You’re an imbecile.
Wow, I never thought I’d see the MDN comment boards actually agree on something. But it finally happened: EVERYONE hates Kanye West.