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Shazam is a huge success story!



We'll put Shazam in the Filemaker category of continuing to exist, but not really benefiting from Apple.


It's built in to Siri though. So Apple benefitted from Shazam. I'd say Apple's Weather app has also significantly benefitted (albeit a bit late) from Dark Sky's acquisition


Yes the Weather app has improved but it would have been much better to kill it and start from Dark Sky


Filemaker might as well have been bought when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. It's such an acquisition from another era that it's a fully owned-subsidiary of Apple inc. that is completely separate from the rest of the company. Do you know how many other subsidiaries Apple has?


> but not really benefiting from Apple.

It gives Apple the data/insights which new artists are getting popular. Maybe they can use it to negotiate prices with artists.


Been a while since I needed this. Deezer has search built in, and I don't need to switch apps to play/add to a playlist after finding the song.


Shazam's auto-added music to Apple Music for ages. Maybe Spotify too but it's been years since I used that.


In what way, specifically for android users?



For posterity:

> 4.8 star / 10.5M reviews

> 500M+ Downloads

> No data shared with third parties


It (optionally) integrates with the Apple Music Android app now, and offers to add to your library there whenever you scan a song, so I assume it's a good funnel for them to get people into their service ecosystem.




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