jonne

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, they're already doing exclusivity contracts for podcasts (eg. Joe Rogan on Spotify only), it's going to be a small leap to go to artists being exclusively on one service, and before you know the labels will all start their own streaming service, so you have to have different apps for Sony BMG artists, another app for indie artists, etc.

The enshittification is mostly pushed by wall street, who want instant bigger profits, and they're happy to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs in the process. Spotify is not immune to those pressures.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yep, the only thing I still pay for is Spotify, and as soon as they start carving up music into different exclusivity contracts I'll go back to piracy for that as well. I'm willing to pay $10-$20/month for one streaming service, but they want you to spend like $200 on services you don't even end up watching.

It's just greed, the way the streaming executives talked during the writers strike showed that. You could easily find an equilibrium that works for content creators and consumers, but the middlemen just want too much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's crazy how much people on Twitter think Twitter matters. It's absolutely tiny compared to Facebook and Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, getting the licences involves a ton of audits, compliance to a bunch of regulations, etc. All stuff Twitter has no experience with.

It would literally be easier to just start this thing from scratch instead of grafting it onto a social network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess here it applies as well, nobody loves windows or the Xbox itself, they just love the games that are exclusively there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It did have YouTube and maps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Man, I'm still disappointed that canonical bungled their play for an Ubuntu phone. A seemless transition between phone and desktop with their OS would've been amazing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

And the only reason those are successful is because they're just very entrenched in large corporations. They're successful if the users are forced to use their stuff, but nobody loves anything Microsoft makes, so they always fail on the consumer side (Xbox and gaming in general being the exception, I guess).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yep, if you don't even have the stuff the first iPhone came with, your platform isn't going to make it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

They've tried to build their own platform multiple times (Tizen the latest one), but they're still always stuck using Android.

They make a ton of money with their phones and making hardware that goes into the other phones, but that's nothing compared to taking a 30% cut of every digital sale on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, same. Although it looks like whatever it is, the important bits are open source and decentralised, so if it has value it should continue to exist in some form?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't think this is exactly by choice.

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