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by leoedin 1901 days ago
Spotify made much of their work model - completely autonomous teams working on whatever they thought was most important. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the reasons their app sucks is because of that. User interfaces don't really work when designed by committees.
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Downloads gone after every update, downloaded albums in your favourite songs list, Chromecast integration spotty. The list goes on and on. That's what you get for 10-ish $ a month.

Agile-mumbo-jumbo idiots.

Most of their effort now seems to be driven by saving them money, hence the big podcast push. Every time you listen to a podcast instead of music costs them less money so their profit from you goes up.