Apple looks to shut down Spotify

Millions of people use Spotify. Spotify is a service that allows you to stream music. You can buy premium and essentially it allows you to download music onto your computer, laptop, phone or electronic device. If you do not use premium, you can choose the songs you download but do not have the choice in which one plays. It also allows ads to play in between songs.

With Apple coming out with a new streaming service, called Beats Music, they are looking to cut out any competitors by any means. Apple has been encouraging labels in the music industry not to renew their licenses with Youtube or Spotify. It appears that Apple wants to get a leg up in the music industry. If Apple succeeds in shutting down and killing Spotify, there will be an overall of 45 million people looking for a new music streaming service. 15 million of those 45 were willing to pay for premium with spotify, and may be willing to pay for another music service which could allow Apple to gain money. This is yet another source of income for Apple.

With Apple already being a well-known name brand for their iphones, Mac laptops, iPods, iPads and new watches, this could very well be a new trend to have Beats Music as your music streaming service.

Jeffrey Camp, a Spotify user who has had it for about a year has decided to quit because of a major bug with the service. After having spent hours downloading thousands of songs onto his device, it erased all of the songs. Due to this happening to him multiple times, he has decided to quit Spotify and go in search of another music streaming service.

Bugs are a big inconvenience, a big possibility is that Apple come out with the Beats Music service, and have a major bug. Such as the one that spotify had with erasing all of your downloaded songs, Apple will have to be careful and watch for any of them. This is another worry that both Apple, Apple users, and potential users could fear.