The interwebs are a scurryin’ tonight over rumors that Apple is eying a potential Spotify take over/acquisition. One one hand, it makes me giddy — Spotify could finally make it stateside. But then the cold, harsh reality sets in. The last streaming-based company Apple bough (Lala) was closed down. And even many months after the fact, we have yet to see anything new from Apple using Lala services. So an acquisition is almost a death sentence.
Further hampering the party spirit is the whole thing with major record labels. Put simply — They’re greed bastards who are destroying their own business from the inside out. But that doesn’t matter. They’ll continue strangling innovative start ups and other music services people actually care about just to turn a small dime. So, another nail in Spotify’s future if Apple picks them up.
It also doesn’t help that the rumored Google buyout from earlier in the year was botched because — you guessed it — greed from major music labels and their unwillingness to grandfather current Spotify pricing schemes into a new buyout deal. In the end, we the consumer lose.
But let’s not get too ahead of ourselves. This whole Apple + Spotify love fest is nothing more than a rumor from an anonymous TechCrunch source. Dream away…
Source: TechCrunch
Via: TUAW
