Is Spotify 10x Better Than Apple Music?

Journey Hayes
6 min readJan 17, 2021

The battle between superior algorithms and first-mover advantage

Credit: Unsplash, Devon Divine

“The true beauty of music is that it connects people.” — Roy Ayers, American funk, soul, and jazz composer

Apple revolutionized the world when it introduced the iPod in 2001 and then iTunes in then 2003. How did things go so horribly wrong from there? Well, Spotify caught just about every “little” detail…

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Journey Hayes

Senior studying Finance at a top ten undergraduate business school. Business, life, productivity, and everything else. Follow me on Twitter! @journey_hayes