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Title: How Taylor Swift convinced Apple to switch gears on music streaming Post by: HCK on June 23, 2015, 03:00:13 am How Taylor Swift convinced Apple to switch gears on music streaming
<article> <section class="page"> <p> If there was ever any doubt about how powerful superstar Taylor Swift is, let this be a lesson: Hours after Swift admonished Apple for not paying royalties to artists during Apple Music’s free 3-month trial, the company abruptly switched gears.</p><p> “We don’t ask you for free iPhones,” Swift wrote in a Sunday morning blog post. “Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”</p><p> Apple media head Eddy Cue took to Twitter Sunday night after Swift’s open letter (http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/122071902085/to-apple-love-taylor) to the company went viral and announced that Apple will pay artists for songs streamed during the free trial.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2938587/how-taylor-swift-convinced-apple-to-switch-gears-on-music-streaming.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How Taylor Swift convinced Apple to switch gears on music streaming (http://www.macworld.com/article/2938587/how-taylor-swift-convinced-apple-to-switch-gears-on-music-streaming.html#tk.rss_all) |