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Spotify has followed the same model as many other companies, like Netflix They are open with data, have good API's etc until they get market dominance then the
by syshum 6y ago
Spotify has followed the same model as many other companies, like Netflix
They are open with data, have good API's etc until they get market dominance then they stop supporting many of those same things.
They have dropped their support for Linux Clients, they closed most of their API's, and various other things
It is a repeating pattern with companies that are disrupting a market
- m-p-3 6y agoYou scared me for a minute, I thought you said Spotify dropped their Linux client https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/ https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/
- dagurp 6y ago> Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support So for all we know they could drop support if an employee or two leave the company.
- syshum 6y agoThey did, from the page "and it is currently not a platform that we actively support." it is a spare project from a few engineers, with no offical support from the company, if the few engineers that support it ever leave it is Dead and it was dead for several years before the engineer got enough support to be able to do it as an unoffical project.