Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider:
Apple now has a customer base of more than 250 million paid subscriptions across its Services offerings of Apple Music, iCloud and App Store continuing payments. Viewed against Amazon’s recent announcement of 100 million Prime members, that figure is substantial. But Apple is also adding around 30 million new subscriptions every quarter.
Fascinating perspective comparing Apple and Amazon subscription numbers. As I’ve said many times, it’s all about the ecosystem. HomePod brings Apple Music subscribers, enough to justify the development cost. iOS devices bring iCloud subscriptions. There’s a steady contribution of subscription money flowing in from HBO, Hulu, Netflix, etc. It all contributes to the services bottom line.
The look at Amazon is very narrow as it only looks at Prime. Amazon has a music subscriptions, Audible subscriptions and Kindle subscriptions. Those are in addition to the Prime subscriptions. One could even make the case for including subscribe and save subscriptions.
Look at how many countries Apple is present in, and compare that to the number of countries that have Amazon Prime.
I hate it when headlines change the unit for comparisons. Why not 250 million instead of quarter billion?
It impressed *me*. 🙂
I mean, yes and no.
Prime and “$.99/mo for a few extra gigs of iCloud because Apple sucks*” aren’t really comparable, eh?
I’d love to see a more detailed breakdown of that “250 million”.
(* I kid because I love. But the default iCloud limit does suck.)