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Convenience, everybody's favorite little shoulder devil.

• raverbashing 9y ago
  If I had a nickel for every time I heard a stupid idea justified by "convenience" I'd be rich by now On that subject: https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/895881274614665217 https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/895881274614665217
• crispyambulance 9y ago
  Convenience is a big deal and not a "little" shoulder devil. Sonos sounds great, has nice features and "just works".
  • ryandrake 9y ago
    > Sonos sounds great, has nice features and "just works". Perhaps not for long, if you do not accept their take-it-or-leave-it terms. Personally, I don't mind not accepting the TOS and simply leaving my software in the state that it currently is in, forever. My device is currently working acceptably, so I don't see why I need an update. But if they're saying it's going to eventually stop working, that's where any sane person should draw the line.
• rconti 9y ago
  Sometimes it's just fine though. It probably depends on the up-front cost, and what value you derive from it. If Spotify stops working tomorrow, I can stop paying them, and we can all go home friends. I wouldn't consider my subscription fees over the past couple of years "lost". On the other hand, if I had to buy a $1000 device for the privilege of paying them $10/month, my anger level would probably depend on how many years I got utility out of that $1000 device before they shut down.
  • bigiain 9y ago
    I've got a friend whose still bitter and vocal about how his car's stereo no longer "works" because Pandora pulled out of the Australian market. Sure that well-over-$1000-device's main purpose wasn't "playing music from Pandora" and it still has it's primary "get to work" utlilty, but playing music is high on the secondary feature list of a lot of vehicle purchases...