The other day I found out that Taylor Swift changed Apple Music's strategy, the Apple company agreeing to financially compensate the artists during the 3-month period in which users will be able to try the new audio streaming service for free.
Although many were happy to learn that Apple will pay money for the listenings made during this period, although no one will pay for them, today we learn that Apple will not be so generous with the people whose content they will make available to us.
According to some information published during this day, Apple will not pay the full percentage of 71.5% in this period, but will only pay a part of it to the music creators, but for now no one knows exactly what money those from Cupertino are going to offer for users.
Spotify pays a percentage of 35% of the proceeds during the period when its users test the service for amounts of just $1, then paying 70% of the proceeds to the musicians, and Apple could take a similar example to reward its partners Apple Music.
Apple declined to say how much it plans to pay during the trial period, although it said the rate will increase once customers start paying for subscriptions.
It has been said since a few weeks ago that Apple will be more generous with its partners and will pay them 71.5% of the receipts instead of the 70% that all its competitors pay, the difference being thought to compensate for non-payment during the 3 months of free offering the service.
Although the idea of those from Apple is to compensate things, according to the calculation in the image above, the partners would recover their losses from those 3 months only after 8 years and four months of partnership with Apple, but who can be sure that Will Apple Music exist for such a long period?
Although Apple said that it will make sure that its artists are rewarded for their music, it seems that things will not be as good as some imagined.
