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Good grief, that URL. These companies are ridiculous. Leave us out of your corporate drama.
I disagree. This "corporate drama" really does impact users, as well as developers (most of the HN crowd).
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Those podcast recommendations (i.e. advertisements) that appear as image tiles in their apps are annoying but avoidable. Recently they have started inserting random podcast episodes into my "Release Radar" playlists. Not happy with this development to put it lightly.
Ugh. How do these companies so thoroughly not understand their own raison d'être?
It's growth, that's why they exist, searching for growth
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You mean Apple would have to be competitive regarding their own services for once? Actually have it make financial sense and provide a seamless experience for companies so they're encouraged to use it rather than forced? No... that can't be a good thing for consumers.
Are we talking about the same thing here? I am talking about payment services. Most companies will do everything they can to screw over the consumer. Especially once they have you in a subscription. As a consumer I would rather these companies be forced to not do shady practices and have to conform to a uniform way of purchases and subscriptions. I have been in too many meetings about "User Retention", if given the c…
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…
As someone who uses Spotify every day, I hate it. I hate their expanding markets while constantly making the app more bloated, slow, and less intuitive. Really, you're going to fill my recommended page with podcasts you've paid a ton of money for exclusivity instead of showing me recommended music that's relevant to me, like they used to? Audiobooks aren't going to make my music experience any better either. Can't wa…
Yeah the App Store rules suck and that’s all on Apple, but I find it a bit silly for Spotify to repeatedly act surprised about them. It’s the same cycle: Spotify wants go around App Store rules → Apple says no → Spotify fires up the timetoplayfair dot com with slightly tweaked text to fit whatever issue they have this time.
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…
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You mean Apple would have to be competitive regarding their own services for once? Actually have it make financial sense and provide a seamless experience for companies so they're encouraged to use it rather than forced? No... that can't be a good thing for consumers.
Are we talking about the same thing here? I am talking about payment services. Most companies will do everything they can to screw over the consumer. Especially once they have you in a subscription. As a consumer I would rather these companies be forced to not do shady practices and have to conform to a uniform way of purchases and subscriptions. I have been in too many meetings about "User Retention", if given the c…
You're right - you don't have a choice if you support scummy business practices with Apple. When you use an iProduct, Apple demands it. Every dime you spend on the App Store gets taxed by the richest company on Earth.
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Your argument is "they are the rules". I think the point is that the rules are anti-competitive, user-hostile, extractive.
Not GP, but I think the argument was: "IAP is easy and simple and secure and well-known, and should be used." Spotify is acting as if Apple is blocking them in many different ways, but all would be solved if Spotify would use IAP, which is super-simple for users, but doesn't make Spotify as much money.
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.
Paying 30% more for all your subscriptions sounds like an interesting way of dealing with that problem.