[doctorpangloss]

I don’t know. Everyone wants the good audience, aka the audience that spends money, aka the iOS audience, but for cheaper.

It used to be that you got to that audience by doing something deplorable for a Hollywood film producer or a newspaper publisher in New York. Now you “just” have to pay a 30% fee. It turns out that deplorable acts scale a lot worse than eCommerce. And in my opinion, the deplorable approach denied us a lot more unique creative output than the 30% model does.

Spotify is right, sure. But these sorts of monopolies on audiences have existed forever.