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Just to echo Pxtl, but much more explicitly, I don't think this had anything to do with caches or scalability, it was because they bought Songza. If you've any
by mattmanser 10y ago
Just to echo Pxtl, but much more explicitly, I don't think this had anything to do with caches or scalability, it was because they bought Songza.
If you've any evidence, please do share and I'm happy to put my hands up and admit I'm wrong, but the announcement was that the change was supposed to be because they now had these amazing hand curated playlists.
- gohrt 10y agoWhy not both? Maybe Sognza's playlists were a caching solution.
- mattmanser 10y agoOccam's razor. dlandis is suggesting a pretty over-complicated, anti-consumer reason as to why google started pushing curated lists. Or you can buy into the incredibly simple "because google bought Sognza to compete with spotify's curated lists".
- dlandis 10y ago> Google looks forward to bringing back those genres/subgenres, and even microgenres, once they've had a chance to improve them and make them more scalable around the world. That is a comment from a top contributor in the product forum. Thread is here https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/play/i9meVyGV2so https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/play/i9meVy...
- CamperBob2 10y agoWow, that thread is angrier than the Maps forum. Pretty impressive achievement on Google's part.
- chipperyman573 10y agoWhat's so bad about the maps forum?