Except how hard is it to learn to code, write a actual app, pay money up front to even get in the exclusive store and have your stuff vetted, versus just record and upload an mp3 to some music service.
The distribution might be much worse in music land than in commercial software repositories.
(Edit: changed "spotify" to "some music service" because apparently it's not so easy to upload to spotify as an independent artist. It was more about the general idea.)
Edit 2: y'all are making a good point about making music not being easy either (I did underrepresent that), but there is no point posting the same reply five times. The subthread where I replied to that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352484
The distribution might be much worse in music land than in commercial software repositories.
(Edit: changed "spotify" to "some music service" because apparently it's not so easy to upload to spotify as an independent artist. It was more about the general idea.)
Edit 2: y'all are making a good point about making music not being easy either (I did underrepresent that), but there is no point posting the same reply five times. The subthread where I replied to that is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25352484