Apple Music and the Record Labels, Macs in Education – TMO Daily Observations 2017-06-22
Kelly Guimont and John Martellaro join Jeff Gamet Apple working to renegotiate how much money it pays to record labels for Apple Music, plus they dive into the state of Macs in education.
Show Notes
- Apple Wants to Pay Record Labels a Smaller Share of Apple Music Revenue
- A Bold Move for Apple: MacBook Air 2 for Education
- Jeff and Bryan are speaking at Macstock 2017
- On The Road to Macstock (at AltConf) with Jeff Gamet
- MacVoices #17151: Road to Macstock – Bryan Chaffin On Apple's Changing Times
- TMO Daily Observations Twitter feed
Your discussion left out the most important reason that Apple is renegotiating their payment rate. When Apple Music launched, streams during the trial period weren’t going to generate payment for labels and artists. After the Taylor Swift open letter to Apple, they relented and went forward with full payments for all streams. They had agreed to pay higher rates to offset the free trial period, and now that they are paying for everything, they should get a lower rate.