TIME MAGAZINE GOING IN ON TIDAL

[Maximus Rex]

wow tidal looks so unique and user friendly compared to spotify

 

[King Kreole]

Learn how to read fakkit instead of just going for the laughs smfh. I put celebrity endorsements and popularity are you saying apple ain't popular now even if not without celebrity endorsements? Are you also saying apple has never had celebrity's in their commercial or anything also? Like I said before learn how to fukking read and stop going for stupid smilie use nikka.

Learn how to read? Learn how to write.

Lay of the drugs the examples you used are mainly popular because of celebrity endorsements and popularity instead of tech.

So your claim is that apart from celebrity endorsements, tech companies are popular because of...popularity?

I did you a favor by discarding that nonsense and addressing the only sensical thing you wrote. Of course Apple is popular, but the reason they're popular is because of their product and the lifestyle brand they've built around it, not because of nonexistent endorsements. In fact, Apple is renowned in the media world for their advertising and marketing because they don't need to use celebrities. You think people are going "Oh shyt, Kanye has a macbook? Lemme get one of those" or "Madonna uses an iPad? I need that"?

This is Apple's most famous commercial (and one of the most famous in advertising history):



Here is Apple's Youtube account, where they store their commercials: https://www.youtube.com/user/Apple/videos

Sift through that and show me all the celebrities in their commercials. What you'll find is that Apple's advertising is in fact filled with regular people doing extraordinary things through the power of their Apple product. That's Apple's marketing angle. Not LeBron James or Taylor Swift looking cool with their iPod or MacBook.

And it's not just Apple. The titans of tech (Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Spotify, etc) don't usually use celebrity endorsements for their branding because it's based around being accessible to the average person.

Now suck rocks and beat it. You're dismissed.

 

[dutchie]

Last time i copped music was a bootleg It was written cassete tape back in 96

 

[Tobias]

yeah, they were influential at one point, probably the pre eminent news magazine, but the magazine industry, just like the music industry, got destroyed by the internet and now they basically just like any other desperate for clicks thinkpiece outlet.

these are all valid criticisms and i dont think anyone itt is arguing that time is some bastion of journalism

we're all laughing at the ignorance to have never heard of time magazine. it is like having never heard of espn or something like that.

dude is either straight up lying or just a moron who thinks never having heard of a huge entity like time is something to brag about.

 

[Zero]

i know the source and king never heard of time

why are ya'll falling for this

 

[No1]

That's why I don't think as is that its a sound long term business model.. The concept of record labels whether brick and mortar or digital is regressive..

I think its telling of the companies shareholders are in their late 30s, 40s and 50s...

My daughter and her 14 year old friends have never lived in a world where music wasn't free.

That's a whole generation that needs to be convinced a dinosaur model is in their best interest.. I feel like Pandoras Box has been open and its too late.. It's almost like bringing back prohibition after 20 years of a good party with free liquor..


The fact that this was framed as a history making revolution for ALL was pretty naive and silly..

You ain't gotta lie to kick it my n1gga

I don't know if that's a constant though. People in the 20 to 35 age range are the ones on spotify, and we were the ones doing all that napster, kazaa and limewire shyt. Things like these are geared towards people with disposal income. If the tide is shifting towards people streaming TV and everything else, I don't see how music cannot be a part of that. We can get TV shows and sports links for free too, but while people are canceling cable, they are not necessarily refusing to pay for any of the content on cable. Though I do agree with record labels as a model failing. I think spending a bunch of money on music is a dying model, unless you're Taylor Swift and you can appeal to young girls and their parents, but I don't think spending money at all is dead. The new iTunes streaming service is only aiming to get 10% of people who download music from the apple store to use their streaming service. Another thing, we have no idea what Tidal will do fully. If you read the Q and A, they mentioned concert discounts (concerts are booming) and a student discount like spotify. It's too premature for me to criticize anything but the roll out which was poorly though out from people so good at planning out everything. We'll see.

 

[Kings County]

Of course they are an African owns it.

nah this aint about race the shyt is just trash

 

[AnotherRoute]

Tidal offers me nothing that I can't already get. Music does not hold the same I need it now value to me as movies and shows. As a New Yorker I spend mad time on the subway , I am not getting any internet connection unless at certain station. Also I have kept my music library stock since napster kaaza limewire and soulseek can't forget morphus and the music I bought from Amazon mp3 and CDs I have ripped.

 

[mozichrome]

i see no reason to try tidal at all
hell if spotify wasnt on my ps4 for free i wouldnt be using that shiit
i probably will never pay for music in my life
maybe a concert or something but an album or mixtape.....shiit like that, hell no

 

[NobodyReally]

Of course they are an African owns it.

Did you read the article? Do you have a counter argument against the points being made?

So where is the backlash when Jimmy Iovine sells 300 dollar 50 dollar headphones with Dre pushing them???? Where is the backlash wit Apple and their expensive ass products. You are getting good quality sounding music not available anywhere and why all the fuss??? People complained about netflix jumping what 3 dollars.


Shut up

Are there free alternatives to Dre's headphones or Apple products? The Time article makes a good point; Tidal has not offered a compelling argument for the average joe to start paying for something they're currently getting for free.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

All of these posts, and NOT one of you fakkits who are in favor of Tidal can even construct a legitimate/factual argument of why Tidal is a superior service to Spotify,Pandora,Rhapsody,Google Play All Access etc.

It's not a coincidence that Sprint/Softbank ( who backs Tidal), is running a promotion to lure customers away from Verizon and ATT and match your data

NOTE: Verizon does not offer unlimited data, Neither does ATT

So when you're streaming your Lossless thinking you're fukking above the rest of the streaming world.... your data plan is gonna get ate up in a matter of hours.


And chances are, you can't afford a data plan that's suitable for daily streaming of this higher quality music.

 

[flea]

thread reminded me of this scene in entourage

2:00 mark
cracks me up everytime

 

[mson]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-stars-aren-t-very-good-at-launching-startups

Jay Z's 99 Problems: Music Stars Aren't Very Good at Launching Startups


One of the greatest struggles for any entrepreneur starting a new company is getting noticed. Not if you're Jay Z, who can simply call up a dozen or so of his closest friends, such as Kanye West, Madonna, and Deadmau5, to join him onstage. Problem solved.

But music fans thinking about throwing their legs on the table and signing up for Tidal may want to hang on to Spotify or Beats Music a little longer. Famous musicians don't usually make very good technology executives. Launching a successful music career does require a certain amount of business acumen, but the skills don't always translate to the fast-evolving world of tech. And Jay Z's pitch on Monday asking people to pay double the price of competing services in exchange for higher-fidelity tracks and extra cash for artists isn't a lock.

Pop idols such as Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber are becoming prolific tech investors, and Bono has been particularly effective with his venture capital firm, Elevation Partners. As for managing tech companies, Dr. Dre proved it can be done. The list of crossovers from music star to tech business savant falls off from there.


Here are four celebrities who gave the tech thing a shot but haven't turned out to be the next Steve Jobs.

Fitty decided to get into tech. In 2011, he bought a majority stake in a rival headphone maker, renamed the company SMS Audio, and installed himself as chief executive officer. Despite the celebrity endorsement, SMS Audio is an afterthought in high-end headphones. Research firm NPD Group told CNBC last year that 50 Cent's company had less than 1 percent of the high-end headphones market by revenue. SMS is working on new hardwarewith Intel that includes biometric sensors to keep the company's heart beating.

 

[philmonroe]

did i say somthing that caused your ire, friend???

You should ask yourself the same question. I was stating that part of your post was stupid if you didn't know nothing more nothing less.

Learn how to read? Learn how to write.



So your claim is that apart from celebrity endorsements, tech companies are popular because of...popularity?

I did you a favor by discarding that nonsense and addressing the only sensical thing you wrote. Of course Apple is popular, but the reason they're popular is because of their product and the lifestyle brand they've built around it, not because of nonexistent endorsements. In fact, Apple is renowned in the media world for their advertising and marketing because they don't need to use celebrities. You think people are going "Oh shyt, Kanye has a macbook? Lemme get one of those" or "Madonna uses an iPad? I need that"?

This is Apple's most famous commercial (and one of the most famous in advertising history):



Here is Apple's Youtube account, where they store their commercials: https://www.youtube.com/user/Apple/videos

Sift through that and show me all the celebrities in their commercials. What you'll find is that Apple's advertising is in fact filled with regular people doing extraordinary things through the power of their Apple product. That's Apple's marketing angle. Not LeBron James or Taylor Swift looking cool with their iPod or MacBook.

And it's not just Apple. The titans of tech (Facebook, Uber, Twitter, Spotify, etc) don't usually use celebrity endorsements for their branding because it's based around being accessible to the average person.

Now suck rocks and beat it. You're dismissed.

Ill give you I could have wrote it better but unless you are saying you can't understand shyt at all unless its 100% clear FOH. A lot of people think apple stuff is junk and hype not the top of the line tech stuff so again try again. Hell you can goto the Arcadia for that but you wanna be obtuse about what I wrote cause you bored so continue to do so. You still didn't answer the question fakkit are celebrities not in any apple promotions ever? Stop being an online dikkhead and trying to be right when your wrong as shyt. Dismiss that stupid.

 

[Big Woadie]

Such depressing thread.

You fakkits tryin to turn this into race shyt. LOL. Jay sold you dreams again. He don't own shyt. He puppet c00n for the Yiddish money and all you broke desperate fukks living vicariously thru his image and money are beyond pathetic, broke ass chumps.

I hope tidal fails. Pathetic cringe conference. fukk jay z and everything he puts his name on.