Following the end of the Apple Music trial period, Tim Cook claims the service has 6.5 million paying subscribers.
When Apple first announced they were transforming iTunes into a Spotify-like subscription service, users were skeptical — why fix something that wasn’t broken?
Knowing that it’d be hard to convince Spotify users to switch services, Apple’s bid for subscribers was a three-month free trial period, which many people accepted. Not knowing, as those of us who’ve since cancelled their subscription, that Apple Music would transform their personal music library into a messy, unmanageable nightmare:
The part of Apple Music where you cancel your subscription and it deletes a bunch of your music from Match seems less than magical.
— Startup L. Jackson (@StartupLJackson) October 18, 2015
Of COURSE there's no easy way to remove Apple Music tracks from Music if you cancel. And MP3s and Apple Music tracks are indistinguishable.
— Jeff Chausse (@JeffChausse) October 16, 2015
But despite the heavy backlash Apple Music has received on social media, Apple CEO Tim Cook claims they’ve got a whopping 6.5 million paying subscribers. Surely not all of these people simply forgot to cancel their free trial?!
Appearing at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference, Cook claimed that not only are 6.5 million subscribers paying for Apple Music, but they’ve got another 8.5 million currently using their free trial. This was reported by Variety.
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Cook also revealed that the new and improved Apple TV will be coming next week, available from Monday, Oct. 26.
Now, we’ve scrounged the Internet trying to find happy, paying Apple Music subscribers, without much luck. Are you one such subscriber? Let us know in the comments!
Until then, here’s some poor unfortunate souls who did, in fact, forget to cancel their subscriptions:
Forgot to cancel my Apple Music trial before it automatically charged me
— Ashley (@AESxo) October 15, 2015
forgot to cancel Apple Music and now it's taken a tenner out of my bank account, love that
— meg (@megfeeney_) October 13, 2015
I FORGOT TO CANCEL MY APPLE MUSIC AFTER MY 3 MONTH TRIAL AND IT CHARGED ME $25 IM SO ANGRY
— Sydney Jenner (@SquidneyAnn) October 20, 2015
Argh – forgot about my free apple music trial expiring – had to pay real actual money, I have never used it… emergency cancel!
— PantsOfDeath (@pantsofdeath) October 12, 2015
That annoying point when you were meant to cancel apple music but you forgot urgh! #thatsmylunchmoney
— Faay (@faay_d) October 12, 2015
#TheRealReasontheWorldWillEnd is because it forgot to cancel its Apple Music free trial.
— Neill with 2 Hells (@neillyfabi) October 8, 2015