“You’ve done nothing wrong. I miss my friends. I miss my family. No one knows except for one or two people who have seen us that we are seeing each other again.”— Jacqueline Kirkpatrick, thoughtcatalog.com
“Apple connects Spotify to our users. We provide the platform by which users download and update their app. We share critical software development tools to support Spotify’s app building. And we built a secure payment system — no small undertaking — which allows users to have faith in in-app transact…”— Apple, apple.com
“The Spotify style is just one of a number of pop trends that have emerged in the streaming era. As several music journalists have pointed out, today we’re hearing choruses hit earlier, often right at the beginning of a song.”— Liz Pelly, thebaffler.com
“By the time you finish reading this sentence, three new songs will have been uploaded onto Spotify.”— Tim Ingham, rollingstone.com
“I would say that this is definitely the most obsessive thing that I do.”— Grace Spelman, theoutline.com
“In Spotify’s thinking, the cost of production is so low that artists don’t need record labels, whose marketing and distribution support isn’t as important in today’s decentralized model as it used to be.”— Lucas Shaw, bloomberg.com
“The old model favored certain gatekeepers, but today, artists can produce and release their own music.”— Daniel Ek, bloomberg.com
“Spotify is an impressive product and company, and CEO Daniel Ek and team deserve credit for reaching this point. Being a true aggregator, though, means gaining power over supply; Spotify doesn’t have that — the company doesn’t even have control over its marginal costs — and it’s hard to see where th…”— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com
“The Wall Street Journal has obtained industry figures suggesting that Apple Music is growing faster than Spotify in the US, adding 5 percent to its base every month versus 'just' 2 percent for Spotify. If that rate continues, Apple could surpass its rival in the country during the summer. There are…”— Jon Fingas, engadget.com
“RapCaviar reminds me of Hot 97 in the early ’90s. When Hot 97 played ‘Protect Ya Neck’ by the Wu-Tang Clan, that was it. It went all over the country. RapCaviar has that influence right now. A song goes in RapCaviar and everyone pays attention.”— Joie Manda, vulture.com
“It was during a weekly design critique that it became clear we had nothing to align on. Our feedback was nothing more than personal opinions based on some new design fad. This led to frustration for the designer presenting, and left the team with a feeling of uncertainty once the session was over. S…”— Stanley Wood, medium.com