why is Spotify "evil" you may ask? 2 Spotify founders build catalog of intellectual property they had no right to use when they launched; became worth ~$25B on said catalog; *demonitized* (as in, pays literally zero) ~60% of said catalog; funds military hardware startups instead
also: generates giant library of AI created music in order to poach listeners away from actual human artists look, this is an objectively evil company. avoid it at all costs.
I use Deezer. It has more value add to me as a customer
Idk man telling someone to use apple as an alternative to an evil company is kinda laughable
Apple pays on every stream and when it does it pays ~2x what Spotify pays Apple (AFAIK) does not generate AI content in order to poach listeners from artists just those two facts alone make Apple far less evil from the artist's perpective I myself like Tidal and Bandcamp
Yeah apple also has sweatshops, intentionally uses software to slow down their hardware, exploits user info, creates invasive tracking and surveillance software, and still uses generative AI for many other things. Sure one of their apps might be slightly better than spotify. But as a whole? Nah.