“Apple’s new $10-a-month streaming music service has attracted 6.5 million paying subscribers thus far, out of some 11 million who started a free, three-month trial over the summer. And another 8.5 million are still in the free-trial phase,” Aaron Pressman reports for Yahoo News. “That’s a solid start for a product that’s late to the scene and runs on an app that’s gotten pretty poor reviews.”
“Spotify, the market leader, has 20 million paying subscribers among 75 million listeners (the company offers a free-with-ads tier that Apple has thus far avoided),” Pressman reports. “The question remains whether Cook and company can catch Spotify.”
“Apple has yet to roll out a promised Android version of the Apple Music app to tap a market which represents slightly over half of all U.S. smartphone users but about 80% worldwide,” Pressman reports. “Still, the Android market skews lower income and the lack of a free-with-ads offering may hurt Apple even more on Google’s platform.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Anything that costs actual money is going to struggle on Android, the platform of cheapskates and/or the greatly confused.
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