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That's some pretty amazing numbers for one week! I wonder how it affected Apple Music with cancellations.

It is interesting that Spotify is $1.68 in India.

This includes both free and paid tiers. I am not sure if there's a strong reason to celebrate. I would speculate that most of these users are in the free tier. Spotify's catalogue for India is severely limited with the feud they are having with WMG, which makes it—despite being the best music streaming app—quite an unattractive option.

Actually it's not too bad. I was able to find most of my favorite Kannada and Telugu Songs.

I was more than happy to cancel my Apple Music Account as soon as I was able to install Spotify in India. I primariy use an Android Device and use an iPhone as a bakup device. Apple mucic app on Android sucks.

I am on an iPhone and an Apple Music user. Got Spotify premium the very first day hoping to find good curated playlists. To my shock, I couldn't find a lot of mainstream Indian and International tracks, very limited playlists, and ever more limited regional and classical music curation. Cancelled my subscription just yesterday and got the refund. Apple Music still remains the go-to music platform in India despite so many competitors.

I’ve used for a few months before jumping to AM. The reason I moved was due to lack of indian songs library on Spotify. Although, initially AM sucked with their collection, at least it have some of the regional indian songs I wanted. I’m so glad I stuck with it, because lots and lots of indian albums have been added and continues to do so.

You'd be more interested in knowing that Apple Music's family offering (for 6 users) is for $2.54/mo in India. Yes that's correct, $2.54 for 6 users!!!

It's not shocking without comparing spending powers though.

What's the price of roughly equivalent street foods in Mumbai vs. New York, for example.

I'd wager the multiple's not far off that between 6 user Spotify in the two countries.

Yup, I agree, and that's a smart move by these international cos.

The average Indian street food in Mumbai for 1 person is half a dollar.

Apple users in India are negligible. There are just 10M iphones in India compared to 300M android users. Of course that number is just 1/3rd of Canada's 30M iphone users.

Apple Music is available on Android.

I had a bad experience with their app on Android. The collection is not great either.

30M iPhone users on a 36M population? I strongly doubt that.

Maybe 30M Iphone sales in Canada?

I have no idea how reliable statista [1] is, but they seem to agree. It seems kinda insane though so I'm hesistant to believe it...

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/274772/forecast-of-mobil...

That's phone users, not Apple iPhone specifically.

You are totally right. My bad - searched for iPhone, clicked and was too tired to check properly.

Actually It is something like 25M total mobile phone users. But 30M is a reasonably good upper bound.

I use Apple Music on Android, in India. (The list of Indian titles available in Apple Music has been impressive, so I am inferring from that there's enough demand to keep the catalogue updated.)

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