Daniel Ek: 'Amazon, Apple and Google have music as a hobby'

Murray Stassen

Spotify's CEO Daniel Ek said that Amazon, Google and Apple "have music as a hobby", when asked how he plans to compete with the companies in a Q&A session with Quora users this week.

There are also "millions" of people listening to Spotify as they sleep at night, he said.

Ek was asked: "How will you compete as Amazon, Google (incl. YouTube), Apple, etc. strengthen and expand the scope of their respective lock-in?"

He replied that music is "a very ...

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