@thomholwerda

The switching cost is actually quite large as you can't export or import playlists (at least from Spotify).

People spend years building up their playlists for all manner of situations. They become emmotionally and functionally attached to these playlists.

@thomholwerda Agreed, they're all terrible for musicians.

@thomholwerda yandex was the best, but it's Russian and I cannot use it anymore. Amazon and Google are not better, apple isn't working fine/at all on other platforms, then the question of how much music is available on the platform and if it's available in your region.

@thomholwerda Who in the west is going to use Tencent, Netease or Yandex?

Everyone I know uses Spotify. If I was to switch I would lose

1. Shared sessions (multiple ppl controlling player)
2. All my own playlists
3. All the playlists of my friends
4. Playlists by random users that I love
5. Access to culturally relevant playlists, curated by Spotify
6. A feed with all the latest releases from hundreds of artists that I follow
7. Decently trained suggestion algorithm
8. Concert suggestions

@thomholwerda I wouldn’t say that there are no switching costs but otherwise I agree ^^

@thomholwerda I love finding myself in the thinnest wedge of the pie.

@thomholwerda the best replacement for Spotify doesn't exist yet.

One of the many aspects to the project I am working on.

Replacing Spotify with an organization that pays it's artists.

@thomholwerda Is Tidal really less than 2.2% market share? That's wild.