More importantly, I have a feeling that some of APPLE decision makers even do NOT know what will happen to the artists during these unpaid THREE MONTHS. Maybe some people in APPLE know, because they have strong connections with artists, they should have spoken out loud.
No matter what happened the system might have something wrong: At lease they should have predicted the reactions from artists? If not, it's serious problem. If yes, it's even worse, it means they do NOT care.
Edit: It's understandable to balance the budget, you lose money somewhere, you earn money somewhere else. But not in this SMALL circle. Especially on ARTISTS. This move is SMALL, not what a big company should do, if this company wants to become bigger (I doubt it, is there something bigger than biggest?)
Edit2: Pay the artists in these THREE MONTHS TRIAL, if this is a decision by yourself, take full responsibility. Don't ask ARTISTS to pay the bill.
Edit3: Competing against SPOTIFY is not a easy job, please do something BIGGER, you can win both the FANS and the ARTISTS back from SPOTIFY. I knew you can.
Edit4: The page renewed nearly half hour ago after my edit number 1, let me write this edit number 4, to improve my editing skill

or just for fun: I'm curious about APPLE's decision making system.