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small44@lemmy.world 11 months agoOk, forget about reducing the labels share. I think the other points i made about finding new ways to generate more profits are still valid and better than making the free version almost useless. If spotify wasn’t profiting from free users too they would shut down the free version completely
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Spotify isn't profiting at all; that's the entire problem.
It's banking on the hope that offering a limited free tier will encourage some amount of users to become paid subscribers, while offsetting the cost of operating that at least a little bit by serving ads. It's unfortunate that you can't make sufficient revenue by just operating a free tier that's truly sufficient, but those numbers quite clearly do not work.
I mean, are you saying that you would be complaining less if Spotify simply killed the free tier? I rather doubt that.
small44@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You said that spotify isn’t profiting at all then explained how they profit a bit for it. I’m sure they would make more profits by finding alternative way to make money like artist subscriptions than from pushing people to subscribe by making the free version almost useless and yes I would complain less if Spotify killed the free version. I only use spotify on desktop to support artists by playing a playlist of artists I want to support on repeat with almost inaudible volume. All music I really listen to is locally either from music i bought or pirated music
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Okay, I'm not convinced you understand the difference between profit and revenue, so, with respect, I'm gonna move on here.
small44@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I undersand the difference but how are they going to be profitable if they are not increasing the revenues
olmec@lemm.ee 11 months ago
What a waste or resources. It is doing stuff like this that forces the companies to put restrictions on the users. Please stop playing music you are not listening to, for everyone’s sake.
small44@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not wasting nothing, it running on the background why i do other stuffs