“In our case,” Simantob continued, “we use the labels songs till we get a 100 million uniques, by which time we can tell the labels who is listening to their music, where, and then turn around and charge them for the very data we got from them, ensuring that what we pay them in total for streaming is less than what they pay us for data mining. Lets keep this quite [sic] for as long as we can.”
“When we play together were in our own space,” Hólm says. “We zone out from each other completely. Our music is all about the very tiniest, most minute details and they must be played exactly right or it will sound different, wrong.”
“Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.”
“Samsung has come out with products that appeal to all the different form factors and specifications out there,” said T.Z. Wong, a Beijing-based analyst at researcher IDC. “That is a strategy they have executed very well.”
