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All the pointless redesigns was a pretty clear sign that they had excess engineering headcount.
by scarab92 3y ago
All the pointless redesigns was a pretty clear sign that they had excess engineering headcount.
- fullshark 3y agoI saw it as a sign that they needed to find ways to get people to spend time listening to anything that is proprietary (podcasts, unique recommendation algorithms) to avoid just being the middle man for music streaming and getting squeezed by the publishers for all their revenue. Edit: By proprietary I mean - owned by Spotify.
- rightbyte 3y agoThe music is propertiary. Even recordings of Mozart is unless the recording is older than an ever increasing limit of a bazillion years.
- fullshark 3y agoYeah but it's not owned by Spotify, at least the most popular music isn't. I mean: they want you to listen to things they own, not things they license.
- apwell23 3y agoIt wasn't pointless. Spotify's whole existence depends on moving from background listening to active foreground use. It would be pointless for them to stay an passive background app. Might as well shutdown the company and cut the losses.