On Spotify

Spotify is for me the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with the “growth at all costs” mindset applied to a tech product. I’ve been a user for I don’t even remember how long, has to be at least a decade at this point. And over these years I don’t think they added a single feature I find useful. And yet they keep adding all these bizarre new things that I’m always left wondering if I’m a very odd user and other people’s use of Spotify is so much different than mine. Like who watches video podcasts on Spotify? Why is a music app getting into videos? And why does the desktop app need to be restarted every other day? Sometimes I think I should just cancel my subscription and be done with it and the only reason I’m still paying for it is because I’m on a family plan and other people are using it. Who knows, maybe 2025 is the year I jump off the Spotify ship.