Paying more and getting less in return? Why yes, I would love more of the Spotify Experience™. 🤡
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Spotify Launches Cheaper $10.99/Month Premium Plan Without Audiobooks
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Their selection of free audiobooks is poo.
Congrats, that landed about as smoothly as a lead balloon.
Why do people use Spotify? I’ve never understood the appeal over Apple Music or other alternatives.
This is an edge case but I use Spotify because of it’s API. I’ve been scrobbling to last.fm for almost 20 years, and Spotify does this perfectly. Neither Apple music or YouTube support this natively, the “solutions” usually involve listening to music in a browser or attempting to sync play counts on a schedule.
I would 100% switch to Apple Music if it could sync with last.fm, and there are hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people in the same boat. Not enough for Apple to care about.
But you will never see the EU complain. They only complain about US companies.
Apple Watch - yes. Works great, except for the low sound quality of all Apple Watch apps. I just use a headset and Apple Watch when I'm out running, and I use both Apple Watch and Spotify.
Just like when Google and Facebook ask for your phone number "for your own security". Yeah, right.
Good to know. But still prefer to use Apple Music.
Youtube Music is Youtube Premium. All functionality required for YT music is enabled by YT premium. There’s no way around it without limiting premium in some significant way.
Oh I wouldn’t mind this but they have not raised the price here yet anyway.
I have no attention span for audio books. My brain drifts off after 5 minutes and half an hour later I am like wait, what did I even listen to? 😅
I have no attention span for audio books. My brain drifts off after 5 minutes and half an hour later I am like wait, what did I even listen to? 😅
well, YouTube counters the blocker these days. Don't work as good as it did before
OMG this so hard! This forever!
And to this I’ll add Apple One Family really needs to have 2TB if it’s meant for families. 200GB is nothing in 2024, much less enough for up to 6 people to share. And Premiere should be 4TB standard.
I read that youtube has started to cancel subscribers who use VPN
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That’s a great idea. Next they should do a cheaper plan without podcasts. I’m not interested in paying for Joe Rogan’s bloated salary
Everyone does, including Apple. Just because they pay more than Spotify does not mean they are paying artists fairly.
I cancelled when they made the deal, switched to Tidal and never looked back
They probably saw too many leaving, so they added this price tier.
Spotify has far the largest subscription base, so they should afford to pay and lead the industry in paying artists!
Even 11.99 is a ripoff. I am paying 2$ for full Family Subscription via Turkey. No problems so far. People paying the full price for subscriptions imho have 0 brain cells and cant help themselves.
The largest non-paying subscriber base also. Apple offers nothing free, so they could still pay more just as Spotify could. Besides, like all other investors, I own Spotify shares for the exact same reason I own Apple shares. They both squeeze their suppliers to pay as little as they can and charge their customers as much as they can for as much profit as they get.
Genuine question - what makes you hold shares in a company that hasn’t posted a profit ever?
I bought for $138, currently around $315. Profit isn't everything from a buy perspective.
Thanks. I will never understand the market.
We have had this tier in the UK for a while now. But we pay $1 = £1, which is complete rip off too.