This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Stephen Witt interviewed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Steve Boom about Amazon Music, the music industry, and the Echo’s roll in the future: If you’re asking people to pay for streaming music in a world where there are a lot of free alternatives, then you need to build a service that they want to use every day. And that’s one of the beauties of this device. What we are seeing is that people are listening to more music than ever: we see from data, and we hear anecdotally from customers. Since I have the Echo in my kitchen, my living room, my bedroom, the kids’ room, we’re listening to more music than we were listening to in the past Expand - View Original
The only streaming service I pay for is the $4-per-month Echo-only Amazon Music deal. I haven't been using my Echo too often lately, though. It was super exciting at first, but now it's just kinda...over there.