It has long been known that Apple has to aspire to a much higher standard. So what is considered successful for other companies becomes a miserable failure when Apple gets involved. Even when high sales are reported, they are often not high enough. Consider the news that 13 million iPhones were sold the first weekend […]

Within 30 days after Apple Music debuted, Apple touted 11 million signups. But since they were for 90-day free trials, it meant, obviously, that had actually paid for the service. With contradictory surveys showing how many planned to actually keep their subscriptions active when it came due, the potential for success remained a huge question mark. It […]

There are surveys and there are surveys. Depending on the methodology, and the accuracy of the sampling, you can get all sorts of results, and some might even be accurate to a degree. If the market research company has an ax to grind, numbers can be appropriately manipulated too, but the survey that forms the basis […]

In addition to music library scrambling, a major complaint about Apple Music is that it’s not simple enough. There are too many features, and too much stuff is put in your face when you check the different music repositories, particularly New. And perhaps there’s not enough support, yet, for less-popular music genres. This means if […]