Cory Doctorow has some thoughts on Spotify (and reportedly Apple’s) plan to kill podcasting [pluralistic.net]

Scary stuff. #podcasts #podcasting

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@Joe "Growth through acquisition means that companies succeed by having more money, not by having better products or prices. It's a winner-take-all death spiral"

Yup. From where I sit, I find this to be true way more often then not.
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@shawn Especially since the 1980s and the 1990s when monopoly mania was running wild and impacted to this day.
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@Joe scary times indeed. The simple fact that Facebook owns a huge section of all social media scares the poop out of me. I like the cozy little corner filled with nuts
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@shawn By the way, not sure if you read Bloomberg's piece yesterday on Apple wanting in this killing spree as well. [bloomberg.com]
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