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google home happily plays Spotify tho. it doesn't work any better or worse with YouTube music. is it really bringing additional revenue to their other services?

• echelon 4y ago
  > google home happily plays Spotify [...] is it really bringing additional revenue to their other services? It will once Google removes Spotify and all other third party alternatives to their own services. I'm typically against monopolistic practices that favor massive platforms, but this actually seems fully justified given that these voice control devices are losing so much money. I think it's fair for both Amazon Alexa and Google Home to be made incompatible with third party services. I'd rather them do this than see the devices wither on the vine. Just tell the regulators that the services and their associated hardware are losing money and that they'll be forced to shut down unless the companies can promote their own platforms exclusively. If Google and Amazon make this move to drop third party support at the same time, they won't have to worry about losing customers to the other home automation product. (Just make sure that it isn't collusion!)
• rippercushions 4y ago
  Google takes a hefty cut when you subscribe to Spotify through the Play Store.
  • FeistySkink 4y ago
    But you can subscribe outside of Google. How's that relevant?
    • rippercushions 4y ago
      It's relevant because Google still makes money off Spotify users that way. And Spotify is hosted on GCP to boot.