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stewart_pk:
--- Quote from: JimH on October 08, 2017, 08:32:47 pm ---Because our customers would like us to provide more streaming options.
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But why not answer that by saying "Apple will not play us and Spotify has licensing issues so it's impossible from the two biggest players." ?
This is the far more important reason is it not?
Because even if it (streaming) didn't struggle, even if it was ridiculously profitable, you still couldn't provide anything anyway.
JimH:
If it were ridiculously profitable, we'd probably do it.
It isn't.
stewart_pk:
--- Quote from: JimH on October 08, 2017, 09:43:08 pm ---If it were ridiculously profitable, we'd probably do it.
It isn't.
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Oh, so you can do it.
OK, but are you really sure Apple Music isn't profitable right now?
Honest question which I don't know the answer of but I'm presuming YES unless proven otherwise.
Do you really think streaming services are going to retract and not grow?
I read a recent article that said that Spotify add on average 20,000 new songs to their catalog daily.
It goes without saying that CD sales are declining and shops are closing and have been for quite some time.
Oh and downloads are looking like old hat: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/26/spotify-music-download-apple-itunes-streaming-vinyl with some suggesting they could die before the CD.
stewart_pk:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-04/streaming-services-boost-revenue-for-australian-musicians/9013974?pfmredir=sm
mwillems:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on October 05, 2017, 05:33:34 pm ---In fact, I would not be surprised if consumer version of Windows 10 become so unusable in future that they lose their whole installed base in home PCs.
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It's humorous because browser tracking stats show linux adoption up significantly this year, and, based on the shift, it looks like it's cannibalizing users from Windows. Not most of them of them, but a percentage point or two which is huge when your market cap was a few percent to begin with. I'm one of them. Windows 10 was the last straw. I literally only keep a windows machine around for JRiver's TV functionality (and superior video rendering, but I would be willing to eat the loss of MadVR to get away from admining Windows). If the linux version of JRiver ever hits 100% feature parity with windows I'd be gone and never look back.
Realistically, I know that most of the change in browser stats is likely chromebooks eating Microsoft's lunch in the education market, but ChromeOS is still a linux distro so I'll take it ;D
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