Napster criticises Apple Music and Spotify

Napster may not have the same number of subscribers as Spotify or Apple Music, but that hasn’t stopped the music streaming service from criticising how the other two are going about their business.

It called Spotify’s free tier subscription into question. “In terms of Spotify, there is no evidence that their ’freemium’ business model is sustainable, as their numbers for the last two years show.”

The Napster spokesperson was explaining to TechRadar why their site doesn’t have a free tier. Napster’s focus, according to the spokesperson, "is exclusively on music: we’re not trying to sell ads or hardware."