[Mindwipe]

The whole point was to move into podcasts for exclusivity so they had something they could put behind a hard paywall to boost revenue - the music service will never be significantly profitable and will probably never be genuinely profitable at all, so they need to move into another area or they will eventually collapse.

[ianwalter]

Yea I understand that, but whats the point of that strategy if users don't want to even subscribe to podcasts in the app because how bad the UI is. It's like they've never used a podcast app before.

[sva_]

I think you can listen to them for free but with ads.

[InCityDreams]

No.

[sva_]

How so? https://www.spotify.com/us/free/