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It’s interesting that Apple split out music from iTunes, and has somewhat walled apps for music, podcasts, audiobooks while Spotify consolidated
by nytesky 2y ago
It’s interesting that Apple split out music from iTunes, and has somewhat walled apps for music, podcasts, audiobooks while Spotify consolidated
- colecut 2y agoApple owns the operating system, so they can keep their full collection of apps front and center without even a download
- 015a 2y agoSpotify would probably argue that Apple has control of the OS, so they can surface all of their apps, pre-install them, whereas Spotify has more pressure to leverage their existing install base by bundling everything into one. I would bet every dollar of my net worth that they are critically wrong on this; its such a beautiful little package that some VP can sell a higher-up to explain away why something they're responsible for isn't performing as expected. I've heard dozens of people complain about how crowded the Spotify app is becoming. I don't know anyone who actively and regularly uses Spotify as a podcast platform; when Joe Rogan was exclusive to Spotify for a bit, I heard a couple people complain about that, which means they were (begrudgingly) using it; but that isn't the situation anymore. How these complaints convert into behavior changes, subscription cancellations, etc; I don't know.