Swift's letter caused Apple to promptly change its mind and compensate the artists. But last summer when Swift pulled her music from Spotify and voiced concerns about the way Spotify compensated artists, the company largely ignored her.
Swift told Vanity Fair it was "ironic" that Spotify, which isn't profitable, ignored her while Apple listened.
"Apple treated me like I was a voice of a creative community that they actually cared about," she said. "And I found it really ironic that the multibillion-dollar company reacted to criticism with humility, and the startup with no cash flow reacted to criticism like a corporate machine."
Originally posted by Spotify blog post on June 10, 2015
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The fact she's arselicking Apple acting like they as a whole company are all lovely and good and like Spotify are the devil for rightfully ignoring her throwing her toys out the pram. And in addition her having the audacity to call anyone else a corporate machine.
She paints them both with such broad strokes and then completely categorizes them based on how they treat her specifically. Too much.
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Apple were nice to me so they are good, Spotify were not so they must be bad. Is everything about money with her? Spotify isn't making money right now but it was recently valued as worth over eight billion dollars.
