Both Spotify and Apple Music have been averaging about 2 million new subscribers per month. Cupertino hopes to shift the dynamic with a new executive at the helm.
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The music streaming service has actually stepped up its pace in subscriber gains with 10 million additions made from every 6 months to 5 months.
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The music streaming service has actually stepped up its pace in subscriber gains with 10 million additions made from every 6 months to 5 months.
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It's the first recorded loss in subscriber base for Big Red. Bills remain high, even as Verizon takes reform to task in its consumer offerings.
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Yes, it’s that time of year again. The time Apple recaps all its great progresses and amazing feats of the past 12 months across many different (and not-so-different) areas of the tech industry, trying hard to downplay any commercial failures, growth stalls or outright stagnations making analysts and investors anxious.
Underwhelming iPhone and especially Apple Watch sales scores? You just wait for the holiday season tally. Slow Apple Pay adoption? Why not focus on the respectable number of US retailers that already support the iOS-enabled digital wallet service? Spotify still outgrowing Apple Music? Perhaps, but there’s room for everyone.
Besides, we all know Cupertino likes hefty profit margins more than rapid expansion to the masses, and as long as rumored Apple Music subscription price cuts don’t materialize, recent growth rates will do. There are now apparently over 20 million paying users, up from 17 mil back in September, which by no means signals doom and gloom.
Then again, Spotify did jump from 28 to 40 million subscribers in around nine months, and that’s arguably a superior hike pace.
Meanwhile, Apple Pay has officially spread the contactless love from a measly 4 to 35 percent of all US retailers in two years, heading for clothing giant Gap sometime in 2017 to further boost a partner portfolio covering 4 million physical stores nationwide. Not too shabby, but let’s not forget arch-rival Samsung Pay works at magnetic-only terminals in addition to NFC-based points of sale.
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According to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, the streaming music service seems to have notched another paid subscriber milestone milestone.Just before we turned the page to spring, the Swedish company claimed 30 million paid users. Competing service Apple Music, not even a year old at that point, had 13 million subscribers.In the intervening half-year or so,
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In addition to widening the subscriber count gap between the nation’s third and fourth largest wireless communications service providers, T-Mobile continues to close in on “Dumb and Dumber”, which is how its CEO likes to refer to the market’s overall leader and silver medalist.Of course, even 13 consecutive quarters of over 1 million customer gains aren’t enough for the “Uncarrier” to actually breathe down Verizon and AT&T’s necks. Big Red still dominates the charts, with 113.2 mil “retail connections”
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