Steve Troughton-SmithJul 18, 2024

This is like a bully sitting on your chest controlling your arms going ‘don't punch your face!’. You preinstall Apple Music on a billion+ devices, undercut your competitors on a subsidized price they can never match, boost yourself with illegal anticompetitive features and entitlements and systemwide ad spots, regularly stall them from submitting updates, and then complain they don't innovate enough??

I'm seriously about ready for this company to burn to the ground
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@stroughtonsmith Won’t dispute that Apple has been problematic, but Spotify also isn’t exactly the paragon of customer choice that they like to position themselves as. They proved that years ago when they pulled the plug on officially supported third party clients for paying users, as well as with pushing the Spotify Connect ecosystem and not offering a way to turn off the extraneous bits (podcasts, etc) in their app.

Maybe it’s just time to give up on streaming and go back to local libraries.

Jul 18, 2024 at 2:33pmIvory for iOS