Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agothey don’t make money because they’re a tech company, they pull in VC funding, and then lose money year after year, they don’t need to make any money because the model is to get everyone on your platform, and then start making money. (which apparently spotify hasn’t figured out yet)
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ahhh yes, future enshitification!
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
i’m still trying to figure out how they’re going to enshittify, because it’s already expensive as shit. And they still make no money, so.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Higher prices, worse quality, intrusive recommendations, ad filled basic tier?
It all depends on how much people are willing to put up with.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
higher prices would be a tough bargain i think, list price is already 15 dollars a month, which i think is pushing it. They already drop songs on the regular, the only way to make it worse would be to have less songs, i.e. even less worth the price. Recommendations are already a thing, but thats a different problem. Ads already exist, and they’ve already been memed on, though that is a free tier, so.
I can’t imagine people putting up with much more, given that for fifteen dollars a month you could buying an entire whole ass album from a band that you like every month.