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Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs (www.bbc.com)
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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

The app exists in its current state on purpose. The idea is not to give you a seamless and masterful listening experience. If it was, they wouldn't compress tracks to 192kbps or less. The idea is to keep you trapped in their ecosystem and give you just enough value to not cancel your subscription.