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> When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time. This is somewhat tangential, bu
by SleekoNiko 4y ago
> When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time.
This is somewhat tangential, but I feel like this happens often, as internal power and culture shifts away from being developer-driven to consumer- or manager-driven.
This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.
- rjzzleep 4y ago> This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully. It happened to Twitter didn't it?
- elefanten 4y agoSeems quite related to the standard 'company lifecycle' And, to your point, not every company follows one. But most do.
- Jensson 4y agoWhat big company didn't end up manager driven after a couple of decades? Even Google ultimately went down that path.
- conductr 4y agoThe average user at scale is nothing like the average early adopter user. Developers tend to be early adopters of tech products.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoA lot of music streaming providers get to pay less for radio plays than for user-directed plays, which in turn drives a lot of that behavior.