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> By contrast, apps like Headspace are selling themselves like "feeling anxious? Try our app!" and getting corporate sponsorships for employers to give subscrip
by nfoz 5y ago
> By contrast, apps like Headspace are selling themselves like "feeling anxious? Try our app!" and getting corporate sponsorships for employers to give subscriptions to their employees, like a commodity to pacify a stressed out workforce.
These don't sound like complaints about anything the app itself lacks, they sound like complaints that it is successful at marketing.
- salt-thrower 5y agoIt's more a complaint about the commodification of meditation itself, one cause of which is the app's marketing angle.