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Peter Kafka
@reckless wait on the deets. but maybe Apple decided its argument was pointless?
Not even a press release, or even a wait-for-it joint statement. Just complete walkback. What happened behind the scenes here?
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@pkafka But why decide tonight and not, say, tomorrow? Or next week with a Swift quote in the PR? - View other replies
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@reckless I want to believe Eddie Cue is just drunk tweeting. -
@reckless bet someone just told Iovine "don't be a dick" -
@reckless probably something really rational, boring. unless this is a movie script… -
@reckless if apple was really threatening to remove resistant musicians' music from the store, avoiding attention makes perfect sense -
@reckless It’s just impossible that a single post on Tumblr was enough to make this kind of shift. A LOT of shit is going on. -
@reckless this was their statement -
@reckless when her post went out earlier today, I'm sure there was an emergency executive meeting. The numbers were worked out and -
@reckless notice Cue called Swift direct, not Iovine. -
@reckless I find this kind of ridiculous. I'm not speaking about the 'paying artists out' part. Taylor Swift can influence an industry
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@reckless get ahead of the narrative. Taylor is the most powerful voice in pop culture, bow down or face the wrath -
@reckless Apple decided not to be Spotify. -
@reckless Taylor Swift perhaps (magically) influencing an entire LABEL to threaten pulling their stuff from Apple Music if no policy change?
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