Wednesday, April 10, 2019, T+98, Part 1

Biggest Apple story not reported yesterday? Except over on MacRumors and the WSJ? From The WSJ -- Apple music has overtaken Spotify in US paid subscribers.

Apple Music has surpassed Spotify's paid subscriber count in the United States, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with The Wall Street Journal. The shift reportedly happened earlier in 2019; Apple had more than 28 million U.S. subscribers in February compared to Spotify's 26 million paid U.S. subscribers.

This was reported last summer an industry source, but now months later The WSJis corroborating the report.According to the paper, Apple Music has been adding subscribers "more rapidly" than Spotify, with a monthly growth rate of 2.6 to 3 percent, compared to 1.5 to 2 percent for Spotify. 

That seems pretty straightforward. Now, let's look at the comments over at MacRumors:

• apparently Verizon customers get Apple Music free
• so, if Spotify partnered with AT&T...
• reminds me of when Internet Explorer was the most widely used browser (because it came installed on every PC) -- I did not know you had to pay for Internet Explorer every month

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Texas Taxes

A most regressive tax plan introduced.

Folks are complaining about high property taxes here in Texas, as property values go up and up and up.

Folks are looking for property tax relief.

Suggestion: cut property taxes but increase sales tax.

Sales tax: nothing more regressive than sales tax.