Microsoft groove Music is struggling. The user base is unknown, but small.
Most people haven't even heard of it.
I wouldn't directly say that it was behind on features. Spotify and the like has features groove doesn't, but the same goes the other way around.
But one thing groove is missing - mostly due to the small size. That is smaller/independent artists. Those who upload the music themselves.
To contact each artist and ask for their music is too labor intensive.
Soundcloud is the home of independent music. By buying them out, they would gain access to their catalog - same goes for Spotify.
Both companies are struggling to make money (they are burning through it, at a rate that some argue bankruptcy is a possibility).
One of the costs of both companies - although not the largest, but a large one, is hosting the music, and delivering it to the end user.
Microsoft has a lot of serverpower, that they most likely rent to those same companies. Unless they rent it from somewhere else. Those places make a profit when renting out their servers.
Microsoft would be able to lower those costs, if they owned it.
Those two factors combined would make Microsoft able to make a competitive music streaming service, and not just a "Spotify us not on our platform, so we have to offer something"
What do you think?
Most people haven't even heard of it.
I wouldn't directly say that it was behind on features. Spotify and the like has features groove doesn't, but the same goes the other way around.
But one thing groove is missing - mostly due to the small size. That is smaller/independent artists. Those who upload the music themselves.
To contact each artist and ask for their music is too labor intensive.
Soundcloud is the home of independent music. By buying them out, they would gain access to their catalog - same goes for Spotify.
Both companies are struggling to make money (they are burning through it, at a rate that some argue bankruptcy is a possibility).
One of the costs of both companies - although not the largest, but a large one, is hosting the music, and delivering it to the end user.
Microsoft has a lot of serverpower, that they most likely rent to those same companies. Unless they rent it from somewhere else. Those places make a profit when renting out their servers.
Microsoft would be able to lower those costs, if they owned it.
Those two factors combined would make Microsoft able to make a competitive music streaming service, and not just a "Spotify us not on our platform, so we have to offer something"
What do you think?
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