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.