Do People Really Think Taylor Swift Beat Apple?

Pop musician Taylor Swift has been in the spotlight –a lot- recently. After famously cold-shouldering Spotify due to its ridiculously low royalty payments, the artist now wrote an open letter to Apple Inc. AAPL, criticizing its new music streaming service. Swift alleges that the company's decision to offer a three-month free trial period should not impact on artists’ royalties, as it would in the first place.

Related Link: Taylor Swift Stands Up To Apple

Long story short, Apple seems to have changed its mind following the pop-star’s open message. On late-Sunday, senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, posted a series of Tweets saying that Apple now intends to pay royalties during the free trial period as well.

Related Link: Apple To Taylor Swift: Shake It Off, We'll Pay The Royalties

Now, it seems quite impressive that a 25 year-old could strong-arm the world’s biggest company. However, it looks like she did. Or did she?

Let’s take a look at what people on Twitter Inc TWTR are saying about this:

“Respect” is a word that’s been circulating a lot: