Streams and roundabouts: Apple Music just fixed one long-running issue, while Spotify added a different one
- Apple changes playlists to give you more control over your library
- Spotify bans free listeners from hearing new music, for three days
- One's good, one's bad. Guess which!
A few years ago, a word was coined to refer to companies' attempts to make their products worse to increase profit margins — it's a profanity so I can't use it here, but some call it platform delay — and two fresh pieces of music streaming service news reinforce, and subvert, it.
Spotify and Apple Music are both making some moves, it seems. One is making a slight improvement, and the other is doing something that, depending on where you live, is plain annoying. You've read the headline, and even if you hadn't, you probably know it'd be Spotify making the contentious decision.
Let's start there, then. Listeners on Spotify's free, ad-supported tier have posted to Redditwith a new problem: they...
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