Spotify, ready to beat iTunes in Europe

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The race to be the best digital music service seems to be changing position. Spotify, according to one of their representatives, would be gaining ground in Europe at the expense of the services offered by iTunes.

Spotify has added more than a million active users in the UK for the past four months. This move is part of its attempt to take control and gain ground on iTunes for the service of the European continent's largest digital music. The benefits of Spotify could have exceeded those of iTunes in Europe.

This was stated in a responsible Sportify in Business Insider recently also explains that the service is growing rapidly, much more than expected for your satisfaction. According to reports, downloads sales are declining in large numbers while Spotify is growing greatly throughout Europe and through iTunes, particularly in the UK. In addition, as indicated by the representative, a large part of the new users are also subscribers Spotify premium service.

Kevin Brown, the source of these claims Spotify has indicated that they do not see iTunes as a true competitor. "Actually," he explained, "the real danger is on Youtube." In addition, Brown has not hesitated to criticize the ability to keep out of Spotify to some artists who have had to date iTunes, although this has not been a real disadvantage, he says. These data come on the eve of an expected launch of iTunes Radio in other parts of the world, but do not know if it will be also for Europe and if this will affect this data.

A "low" Apple. Financial results for the Q2 2014.Growth 39,3%

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Apple has made official the financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2014. Apple has 45,600 millions of dollars in revenue. 3,000 million more than analysts predicted. Representing a growth of 39.3% over last year. The net profit was 10,200 million. 

Sales figures fluctuate forecasts 43.7 million iPhones sold (38 million less than expected), 16.35 million iPads (here expected more, 19.7 million), 4.1 million Macs (expected 4.03 million) and 2.76 million iPods sold (2.99 million expected).

If we observe the annual variation aside, we can see that Apple has even grown slightly Having spent a quarter where there has been almost no news:

Let us now look at the Apple data division. Stresses that now the income of the iPod and represent only 1% of total revenue, while the iPhone is eating more and more proportion with 57% of revenues:

And where do all these revenues? America, Europe and China most are performed: