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by Broken_Hippo
1704 days ago
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To be fair, the recommendations are based on what you listened to lately in addition to what you've listened to in the past. A month probably wasn't long enough - it isn't really an immediate satisfaction thing when you have off-center tastes in music. If 70% of folks like popular music, that's the easiest thing to recommend. They might want a bit more control, I don't know, but I very highly doubt fewer customers is the goal. If they wanted fewer, they could just pull the free model completely. I'd guess piracy would increase and they'd get blamed, but I don't know. |
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So each day when my mood changes, I'm suppose start searching for a bunch of tunes and after an hour, I get what I want?
If 70% of folks like popular music, that's the easiest thing to recommend.
"Brilliant AI" ... turns into just top40 radio and victory is proclaimed.
They might want a bit more control, I don't know, but I very highly doubt fewer customers is the goal
This is what I said with a slightly different spin - they're willing to trade control for customers. Whenever companies engage in annoying or abusive policies that drive away customers, it's not that they don't want customers in the abstract, it's that they prefer control and profit margins over customers.