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Its depressing to see techcrunch's continuous berating of spotify First of all, I don't see this article as berating spotify. The headline (which is inconclusi
by swombat 16y ago
Its depressing to see techcrunch's continuous berating of spotify
First of all, I don't see this article as berating spotify. The headline (which is inconclusive at best, not a clear "berating") aside, the article is quite positive about Spotify's stats and their potential over the next few years.
along with it and the last.fm debacle its hard to think techcrunch dont have an anti euro startup
Secondly, this article is on TechCrunch EU, by Mike Butcher, which afaik had nothing to do with the TechCrunch US, Arrington-led "last.fm debacle" if you want to call it that. For anyone who knows Mike, it's hard to accuse him of having an anti-euro startup stance. Mike is probably one of the most active people in Europe when it comes to trying to convince everyone that Europe is a great place for startups.
TC-EU organises events, gets people together, writes about them, and generally does everything they can to help the european startup scene pick up.
- daleharvey 16y agoTo be fair I didnt check the author of the article, and I do agree that Mike has been a really good job promoting and helping local startups. But I didnt make this comment on the article in isolation, there is a long list of techcrunch articles questioning spotify's viability ever since its inception, its being held to a much higher standard than it should be, and as as far as I can tell the only company really successfully getting any leverage against record labels I think they should be backed at every opportunity.