Assignment #4

Apple vs Spotify

Spotify vs Apple Music, the giants of music streaming. Both offer similar pricing for single, family and student plans with similar accessibility features like text to speech, enhance text, and others.But unlike Apple Music, Spotify has two main streams of revenue its paid users and advertisers, compared to apple musics only main source of revenue, it’s paid users. It seems like Spotify chose the ad route in hopes users would later chose to support it with the premium plans in exchange to ad free music. Apple music’s paid wall might explain why apple Music has more than 50% less paid users compared to Spotify, because unlike spotify they cant try it for free without having to input their personal debit/ credit card. Not to mention that apple music has an advantage on ios,with it being a 1st party app(from apple). This has lead to Spotify being more readily available to 356 million people.