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In modern capitalism, the larger the company, the more it needs to grow in order to exist. Some, like Apple, manage to continuously expand into new markets. For
by exitb 3y ago
In modern capitalism, the larger the company, the more it needs to grow in order to exist. Some, like Apple, manage to continuously expand into new markets. For now, at least. Others, like Spotify, are not positioned for that - once they reach their potential, they start to franticly juice their market destroying their product along the way.
- toyg 3y agoSpotify is actually trying very hard to expand in different markets - audiobooks and podcasts were big moves. Unfortunately, these markets really don't play well with their core proposition. I honestly don't understand why certain giant companies are obsessed by integration; instead of trying to stuff everything in one UI, why not integrate backends (to leverage economies of scale) while keeping UIs separate? So you can cater for each audience in different ways, and keep everyone happy. It's basically "MVC for businesses", just build a different view for the the models you already have. The savings supposedly obtained by unified UIs are so often offset (or worse) by massive losses of core customers.
- skydhash 3y agoWhen you have engagements as KPI, that's what you get. Everything stuffed inside the same platform and the user have troubles with their workflow. I keep thinking that Winamp had the best music player interface, because it lets you turn off parts of the UI you don't need (I did not use the media library, because my files were barely tagged), and the UI was very informative. I've just setup MPD and NCMPCPP and the experience is miles better than Apple Music.