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Who asked for this? What’s better about it than just sending it via text?
This feels like a desperation move. Like the early 2010's when every company was trying to be the next MySpace or FaceBook by integration social features.
I mean they are in a good, maybe even monopolistic position. So not sure if it is really desperate. But all of big tech has been hiring and spending absurd sums with nothing to show for the last years. 2005 to 2015 was a huge leap tech wise. But 2015 to 2025? Stagnation at best. But in most cases even worse user experiences. How can they justify the spend?
more data for spotify, and more lock in
instead of a sharing id in the link that doesn't withstand secondary sharing, removing, etc, they now get who sent you the link, whether you opened a link sent to you, how long, etc. also encourages people to actually use the follow feature
instead of your friends sending you spotify links in whatever platform that you can go look up on a different music service, you have to use spotify to get their messages
I just miss the friend activity panel. that's as far as the social features should go. maybe it'll get some love with this
Lock in. They seem to worry that people are unhappy with them.