TL;DR Podcaster published on Anchor, moved to another host and back (due to 'wrong download numbers'), in the process got locked out of their own podcast and lost 3k 'followers' on Spotify. If those folks had been subscribed to RSS in a proper app rather than follow through some proprietary system, there would've been much less damage. Lesson: don't tell people to follow on Spotify.
Spotify’s Car Thing has been a convenient way for motorists to control music without their phones. The company recently announced that it is discontinuing the gadget — no refunds, no trade-ins — and users are outraged. Futurism tell us more: https://flip.it/.OZzdA #Tech#Technology#Music#Spotify
@ai6yr maybe they fired the team that worked on the software and they're going to shut down the servers rather than bother to do anything that costs money.
@douglasvb Oh, I KNOW how that works, just saying if you were doing it right you'd not e-waste it all, and you'd make them usable to someone instead. (Of course, if it doesn't make the company money, they won't do it)
"Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold / The dashboard accessory, which went out of production in 2022, will become e-waste at the end of this year. Spotify isn’t crediting or refunding customers."
@hund Making hardware unusable like this and refusing to unlock it should be banned. This company is basically disallowing users from re-purposing hardware, and straight out telling them to trash it -- even though it's perfectly good hardware that has nothing broken. They've simply decided that it can't be used any more.
Ich habe #Spotify ja schon vor geraumer Zeit den Rücken zugewandt.
Ansonsten wäre spätestens jetzt Schluss.
Was für ein rücksichtsloser Mistladen!
Und ich erwarte endlich ein Gesetz, dass für jedes Produkt, welches aus der Unterstützung läuft, eine zwangsweise Überführung der Software in public domain erzwingt.