Apple music shake up

Taylor Swift is peeved at Apple and perhaps rightfully so, I can see it from her perspective. She reckons that many artists are too scared to speak out against the giant as a result of their clout, this time it is as a result of a three month free service for people using Apple streaming. Swift does not want her album there, she obviously can afford to be picky I guess, she hardly had a ghetto upbringing. That is not fair, you know what I mean though. So here is the letter: To Apple, Love Taylor. As she says, she is just doing this for the new artist, who cannot look out for themselves yet. She just reckons that Apple should start charging people from the beginning. I guess that might well be right, as she points out, she did not get a free iPhone, why should people get free music?

Apple caved. Eddie Cue, a big deal at Apple tweeted a series of tweets to confirm that artists will be paid for the three free months, read tweets from the bottom up of course:



No Apple "stakeholders" (I don't really like that term), rather shareholders will pay Apple Music streaming artists for three months. Bravo Taylor and bravo Apple for sorting this out so quickly.