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Wait you have to “buy” the audio book in addition to the monthly fee? hmmm no thanks. Just my take but I don’t want click to purchase stuff coming to Spotify. In my opinion this a fail. I already purchase a family plan for 15$ a month .. last thing I need is tap and click add on purchases.
I think Apple is being abusively extractive here. I also believe that Spotify's audiobook play will be bad for consumers and worse for artists.
Neither of these leviathans are interested in making that happen.
There have to be dozens of posts here along the lines of "I don't like xyz about spotify[...]". Whether anyone of us likes Spotify has zero relevance when it comes to the fact if they should be subject to extractive rents, literally none.
The EU or any other regulator finally needs to draw a line in the sand and make clear that manufacturing hardware doesn't entitle you to dictate people how they conduct financial transactions. How Spotify, its users and producers interact with each other is their business, and the idea that Apple has any right to insert themselves into the business transactions of third parties is absurd.
Imagine every time you made any payment on a Windows machine, you had to pay Microsoft a 10% tax. Every game, every piece of audio, every paypal transcaction, for no reason at all merely because you happen to be on a windows computer you pay them a fee. We'd be rioting in the streets probably. We brought the hammer down on Microsoft for shipping a browser by default, how is Apple getting away with literally acting like a landlord on its devices?
Does anyone else take issue with Spotify branching out into other arenas (e.g., Podcasts, TV, Audiobooks, etc.)? I'm honestly kinda tired of all of these services trying to gobble up any slightly related industry. I subscribe to Spotify to listen to music, not podcasts. My podcasts arrive using a different app with the backing of the RSS standard, not Spotify's internal standard. I don't want to get a subscription co…
I am a paying customer and for some reason they show me an popup ad every time I open the app... It's extremely annoying.
Wait you have to “buy” the audio book in addition to the monthly fee? hmmm no thanks. Just my take but I don’t want click to purchase stuff coming to Spotify. In my opinion this a fail. I already purchase a family plan for 15$ a month .. last thing I need is tap and click add on purchases.
It's incredibly frustrating and only exists to trick readers into overspending on books.
As a consumer, I’ve actually come to prefer in app purchases. I love when a subscription is available on IAP because for something like a newspaper, I know that I can cancel it with a couple of taps instead of having to fill out some long retention form or call someone.
This is 100% how I feel. Too many of these companies have dark patterns for canceling your subscription (or hoping you forget you have one) that I actively stay away from most services that I can't just use an IAP with. This is largely thanks to all of this being consolidated in a single UI where with just a couple clicks (without ever needing to open the app and dealing with their marketing or 20 questions) I can ca…
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This is 100% how I feel. Too many of these companies have dark patterns for canceling your subscription (or hoping you forget you have one) that I actively stay away from most services that I can't just use an IAP with. This is largely thanks to all of this being consolidated in a single UI where with just a couple clicks (without ever needing to open the app and dealing with their marketing or 20 questions) I can ca…
This so much, specially when I think of my parents and older love ones, 30% is nothing compared to being in the wild west of dark patterns. Reputation have a price, Apple may not be perfect but I can trust that they aren't going to deceive my parents or make their life more difficult when trying to use technology. At least personally, I would much rather pay a bit more than opening the door to cheaper prices at cost…
Wait you have to “buy” the audio book in addition to the monthly fee? hmmm no thanks. Just my take but I don’t want click to purchase stuff coming to Spotify. In my opinion this a fail. I already purchase a family plan for 15$ a month .. last thing I need is tap and click add on purchases.
Digital Audiobooks are becoming more and more of a racket. Amazon recently removed the ability to buy an audio book for a $ amount. You can only buy a credit and exchange that for a book. This means that you might be buying a new $30 book for 1 credit or a $3.25 book for 1 credit. It's incredibly frustrating and only exists to trick readers into overspending on books.
Usually they'd redirect you to audible.com to avoid any google fees but apparently they stopped that?
I do not have the premium audible subscription though, only plus. Maybe that's why?
Does anyone else take issue with Spotify branching out into other arenas (e.g., Podcasts, TV, Audiobooks, etc.)? I'm honestly kinda tired of all of these services trying to gobble up any slightly related industry. I subscribe to Spotify to listen to music, not podcasts. My podcasts arrive using a different app with the backing of the RSS standard, not Spotify's internal standard. I don't want to get a subscription co…
I have no issue with it business-wise -- if they don't, they'll eventually die because a podcast/audiobook app expands into music. I just have a major issue with it UX-wise. I wish podcasts and audiobooks were their own separate apps. I've totally given up even trying to understand Spotify's UX anymore. I always eventually manage to play what I want through some combo of scroll/filter/search/history but I just feel l…
As a consumer, I’ve actually come to prefer in app purchases. I love when a subscription is available on IAP because for something like a newspaper, I know that I can cancel it with a couple of taps instead of having to fill out some long retention form or call someone.