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They don't care pre-emptively, but it only takes getting burned once after sinking hundreds or thousands into a dead platform that they start to get skeptical.
I'm sure any customers of Walmart Music are reluctant to fall for this again. http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/wal-mart-latest...
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RE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5479848 I'd love to think that software innovations would trickle down into larger markets, across borders, and into lower brackets of economic prosperity, but things like this just really frustrate me. Canada is often treated like shit in terms of access to marketplaces and entertainment services online, and it needs to stop soon. USA, we are your closest partner, and we want…
Is there any chance that Canada is also responsible in this? I ask because of the very strict CRTC regulations which dictate how much foreign content can be served to Canadians.
We're in the situation of being a big enough, lucrative enough market that they want to maximize revenues here, yet paradoxically we're small enough that they're usually in no rush to do so.
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Do you have a basis for this statement?
The profit margins are too slim. Their revenue barely covers the operating costs and onerous licensing fees.
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I've tried both and have stuck with Rdio. The social aspect is superior. I love being able to see playlists and recommendations from random people beyond my Facebook friends. Spotify's desktop app is definitely faster, though I find Rdio to be better designed.
Completely agree. The UX of Rdio is far superior, IMHO.
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None of the streaming music companies are sustainable in the long term.
Do you have a basis for this statement?
I hope this means Rdio is going to be a more sustainable long-term business, and not that Rdio is pivoting away from music; Rdio seems to be the best of a shaky lot when it comes to subscription music services, and I'd hate for it to get worse.
Its pretty hard to beat Spotify unless you have some specific taste in music they dont cover well. But overall I have a hard time seing a better service than theirs. It just works, is fast and has a large db of content.
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I've tried both and have stuck with Rdio. The social aspect is superior. I love being able to see playlists and recommendations from random people beyond my Facebook friends. Spotify's desktop app is definitely faster, though I find Rdio to be better designed.
But there is a BIG difference here if we're talking about the free services of both. Spotify is always free, and rdio is only free for 6 months. Yes it's probably a good thing to pay for a service that you like (I do), but some people don't, and that's going to be where they prefer Spotify. http://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/How-... http://help.rdio.com/customer/portal/articles/187730-rdio-fo...
"only available [...] in the US and UK" Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later? Because as some not in the "chosen countries" I always feel that those services either a) never arrive, b) get beaten to the punch by local competitors or c) have to spend a shitload of money to conquer that market, sometimes by buying the aforementioned competitors. Also, unless…
"Can anybody think of any geo-tarded service that successfully rolled out in other countries later?" As someone living in the US, I can only imagine the frustration people must feel not having access to content in their home countries. It would drive me nuts as well. But as someone working at a company who also tries very, very hard to make services available to people around the world (the goal is 100% coverage) I a…
Rant ahead... Am I the only one dissatisfied with the way media delivery has played out the past couple of years? We started with a rapidly developing delivery system (the internet) and content makers who couldn't see the value in capitalizing on this sales channel by making movies, TV shows, and songs available to consumers at reasonable prices (read: less than physical media costs), which led to piracy, global diss…
I'm tired of this crap. This is the internet, why does my country f* matter? I pay in dollars like everyone else.
You need to weave better partnerships with your content providers, or you lose me to The Pirate Bay.