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Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle::Spotify reported a mix of good news and bad in its latest quarterly earnings report. The good news was that...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I must be the only person on Lemmy who actually likes Spotify. You youngings don't remember the time before spotify where the best option was Apple's shit-of-a-service that charges flat 2$ per song (no matter where you are in the world lol) or spending evenings in p2p music sharing channels and music forums organizing your playlists.

Spotify has objectively changes music for the better and I'd be very sad if it goes away because all alternatives are significantly worse still.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

This is me as well. I haven’t downloaded music since I got Spotify. I just wish the movie industry had similar options. No I will not sign up for 15 different streaming platforms. There are much easier ways to solve that problem.

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