They got me again. I can't believe I let them get me again. I was subscribed to Play Music, then Youtube Red appears and okay, I get that in addition, now they're closing Play Music and forcing me into Youtube?
These motherfuckers.
I’d rather have ads on Music and nothing else. Seems like a strange anti embrace of the creator community.
I can only assume they would rather make money off of ads (because they make more money than YouTube red?) and this needed a way to sell the popular YouTube Music (including the background play feature) and have a way to get more people watching ads that were casual users that mostly only cared about music (instead of having ad free YouTube thrown in).
Can’t see another reason to have structured it this way. YouTube Music is obviously an important business requirement to otherwise keep all the labels uploading their music videos onto the otherwise free site.
But more seriously, since the rollout has been extremely limited, I have the feeling that Google is not really interested in offering it worldwide.
Luckily I’m in Australia where we have it already and I’ve been paying since it launched.
It's just like the history of cable TV. I'm very pessimistic that it will just keep repeating.
