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Agreed. I Fucking hate exclusives. The only exclusive I'll support is a "physical release only" exclusive (haha, as if that were a thing!), because someone would upload that shit anyway, and I could put the cd on my computer and play it through iTunes or whatever.
Yeah, I hate the exclusive movement. But if I had to pick, I'd rather have an iTunes exclusive than a Spotify session or a TIDAL exclusive. iTunes is, after all, an actual STORE that actually sells albums, and allows you to own the album, a digital booklet, etc.
What's Drake said, I think, was that Views from the 6 was going to be a "Apple Music exclusive" which is very different from an iTunes exclusive.
Apple Music is streaming only, just like tidal. You can't purchase albums on Apple Music, you can only purchase a subscription to Apple Music, and listen to the album and let it eat up your data. If you're stuck in the 2000's and don't have data streaming capabilities, then you either need to get a goddamn data plan somewhere, or the album will basically only exist for you if you're sitting at your computer on Wifi.
iTunes lets you buy an album -- or song, movie, tv show, ringtone, book, etc. -- and then once you download it, it's yours and you can listen to it any way you want to.
If Drake's doing a true Apple Music exclusive, then he's just pulling a TLOP version 1.0. And it's going to be frustrating as all hell for his fans, and people will pirate the album and rip it and share it.
It just means Drake is a tool for Apple. At least Kanye is a part-owner of Tidal, and he's only a tool of himself and his community's self-interest. This Apple Music thing is weird. Obviously Drake has a contract with Apple, just like he has with the Raptors, and he's trying to pull consumers in. Which kind of makes him a fuckwad in my opinion.
Lame.
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