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This is clearly a pretty lame thing for Spotify to do. The context of this particular article, however, is that John Gruber is obliquely attempting to use Spoti
by bww 6y ago
This is clearly a pretty lame thing for Spotify to do. The context of this particular article, however, is that John Gruber is obliquely attempting to use Spotify’s bad behavior to excuse Apple doing the same or worse on a much larger, much more significant scale.
This is one in a long series of recent posts dedicated to pointing out the hypocrisy of companies (Epic, Spotify, Microsoft, etc) that have been agitating for Apple to loosen its stranglehold on the iOS ecosystem.
The gist seems to be: “See? Everyone else is doing the same thing with their own platforms, too!” As if the self-interested actions of a bunch of huge companies is what sets the moral baseline we expect them all to adhere to.
I wish Gruber would spend a little more time thinking and writing about how these companies _should_ manage their platforms and a little less time trying to undercut the entirely legitimate criticisms that developers large and small have with how Apple, the world’s most valuable company, deals with them.
- SllX 6y agoI can see how you get that impression only reading his website, but listening to him on both The Talk Show and Dithering in addition to reading his site, the impression I walk away from is that Gruber is calling Balls and Strikes as he sees them. Mind I’m also the type of person that listens to his podcasts so feel free to take what I say with as much salt as you like on this topic, but more generally, I get very different impressions of the same people reading their blogs versus listening to their podcasts and I’ve started to give the latter more credence in forming my impressions over the last three or so years. Not arguing with you by the way, just trying to offer up an alternative take to you and other passers by in this thread.
- aeontech 6y agoIt appears that the service under discussion is still supporting Apple Music just fine, both for import and for export?
- Rebelgecko 6y agoI've migrated playlists to/from Apple Music almost seamlessly not too long ago. Did they remove that capability recently? I was actually thinking of migrating from Apple Music back to Spotify at some point, although this douchebaggery may end up changing my mind.