Apple Music wish list

Apple Music has 36 million subscribers compared with 70 million Spotify listeners around the globe.

Arecent report in the Wall Street Journal ( go.macworld.com/twsj) claimed that Apple Music was on pace to surpass Spotify in subscribers. That sounds amazing! But it’s not quite so simple. The calculation was made by looking at Apple Music’s current number of paying subscribers (about 36 million), comparing it to Spotify’s paid subscribers (about 70 million), and noting that with Apple Music’s current 5 percent growth rate it will overtake Spotify, which has a 2 percent growth rate, this summer.

There are a couple of important