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Kids don't care about corporate ethics or artist respect, they care about where their friends are and where their playlists and memories live. Spotify is the soundtrack of their lives and my own kids love their sort of curated history of music. Moving their playlists isn't going to happen, asking them to switch to my Apple One subscription would be like asking them to rewrite their social identity. My own household would be in open revolt if I asked them to switch to anything else.

It’s ham radio. It’s very probable that they were already on the brink of failing considering what they made and where they made it. The manufacturing probably isn’t profitable and like most things ham, it was a labor of love.

Hardly a departure, the value is substantial for all those but the user.

The friendship limit you speak of has been hypothesized by an anthropologist (Robin Dunbar) as being in direct correlation to neocortex size. More recently, it's been called "the monkeysphere".