News just in – a recently brokered deal with Taobao will see Xiami migrate all user accounts to Taobao’s platform. Xiami’s core music service will remain, but the user accounts themselves will be dispensed with.
Users are pretty incensed given they have no say in the matter. Wooozy.cn just pushed the story on Weibo, with one reader summing up quite succinctly:
“Taobao sells fake products, Xiami sells unlicensed music, they are indeed a match in heaven “.
Taobao stands to gain credit card information and other data assets associated with each user account. Xiami of course becomes further legitimised…
