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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by JonFish85 on Monday November 16, 2015 @04:57PM (#10577524)
"There's not enough listeners for the number of music services. If your service stumbles, it's easy to move onto something else, so you really only get one or no chances to convince your potential customers."

I agree, and even feel more strongly about it. Even if you don't stumble, it's hard to compete with Google and Apple at this point, because they have their services tightly tied in with their other products. Buy an iPhone (hell, or even a laptop or tablet), and Apple Music is integrated out of the box. Same with Google Music.

Personally I think Spotify is doomed to fail (for various definitions of "fail") for the same reason. There are some people who want their music decoupled from their OS/hardware, but I think there are so many more than want it to "just work", and I think that Apple & Google have a better shot at that than anyone else, at this point.

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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by p0wnd on Monday November 16, 2015 @05:01PM (#10577557)
I won't switch from Spotify though because it meets my needs and furthermore they keep innovating. One thing I can look forward to in getting back to the office on Monday is my new week's playlist that Spotify creates for me. I listen to a wide variety of music and they have helped me discover a lot o f artists and songs I'm really into.
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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by dom96 on Monday November 16, 2015 @06:51PM (#10578213)
Totally agree. Spotify's weekly discover playlists have made me look forward to Mondays.
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Re:Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Wi... by derrickdirge on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:21PM (#10582557)
'Discover Weekly' is the one feature keeping me with Spotify. Their UI annoys me on a daily basis, but I've got a lot of great recommendations from them. Frankly, I wish Apple would mirror this feature, though it goes against their whole 'human curated playlists' philosophy.
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