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Re:Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021 by msbarnett on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:16PM (#30015154)
> So what exactly is the rationale to pay for Apple Music?

For $20 my wife and I both get Apple Music, Apple TV+ (several shows we enjoy on there), 200GB Cloud Storage, and subscription access to a bunch of video games.

2 subscriptions to YouTube Music by itself would cost us the same $20, with none of the other benefits (and it has a muuuuch lousier selection of stuff I like, at least – plus a lot of the user-uploaded content has audio quality on par with some 96khz mp3 I'd have gotten off of napster two decades ago, whereas Apple's increasingly streaming lossless)

Re:Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021 by deadmutex on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:23PM (#30015250)
> 2 subscriptions to YouTube Music by itself would cost us the same $20

FYI: There's a family plan... ~$18 for 5 people in the household. And no ads on YT!

Re:Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021 by Steltek on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:22PM (#30015239)
Youtube Music has a family plan for $15/m for 5 users and all users also get YT Premium (nee Red). It's a way better deal.
Re:Music subscriber market shares Q2 2021 by msbarnett on Thursday January 20, 2022 @04:29PM (#30015330)
Ehhhhh there's just the 2 of us, so with none of the other benefits, which to me are worth $5, it's not an interesting deal. Plus neither of us spend any time on YouTube so that whole "Premium" ad-free thing is just meaningless access to absolute junk content.