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Lemkin predicts Apple Music will be a miss for Apple and Spotify
“I think that it's gonna be tough to really materially impact Spotify, and it's hard to have a material impact on Apple's bottom line, so no matter what, it's a miss.”
Pakman: Apple Music will reach only 30-50M paid subscribers in 2 years
“I think there'll be a sustainable long-term digital music streaming service, but I don't think they'll get much more than, you know, I'm thinking sort of 30 to fifty million paying subscribers over the next two years, so I think my prediction is that they'll f…”
Apple Music's Sterile Design Gives Reason for Pessimism
“That's actually the exact analogy that I made, and it's sort of, that's one reason to be not so optimistic about Apple Music. As soon as, I mean, it just, that struck me immediately as not at all the way that I think about music, you know, just choosing betwee…”