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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • On handling downloaded songs and offline playback, my personal (but informed) opinion is that there is:

    • some licensing reasons for it to be more complicated than strictly necessary
    • lack of interest of supporting an app feature that doesn’t drive numbers immediately up (sure, I agree that a better offline experience would improve the product and help user retention, but it isn’t easy/quick to measure its impact), and
    • lack of ownership with many teams having to support a functionality (keep the app working offline) within all the various app features they own.

    So, just as a dog with multiple owners, it goes neglected and starves.


  • I’d say that they’re “cooking the books” as in: making it look like they’re in better shape than they are by cutting costs, but causing irreparable damage to themselves that will manifest in the long run.

    I’ve survived 3 layoffs at Spotify last year alone. Once I started working there It didn’t take long to be proud and feel happy about it. Now, although people still find it cool when I tell them and I still do the same job (no workload increase), I know it is just like any other greedy corpo and I feel compelled to care less and less.

    https://c.im/@matdevdug/111828583287417134