Apple just unveiled its new music streaming service, Apple Music, and Spotify’s Daniel Ek has this to say:
https://twitter.com/eldsjal/status/607989287989215232
Already, the tweet’s been pulled.
Apple’s new music service competes directly with Spotify’s service and even comes at the same price point: $9.99 a month. Ek’s reaction is understandable, as Apple’s new service rides the music streaming wave that Spotify arguably created.
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For fun, here’s more from Ek’s Twitter timeline.
This isn’t the first time Spotify’s employees have expressed disdain over their competitors; in April a handful of Spotify designers took to Twitter to complain about Tidal’s alarmingly familiar design.
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