I already transferred to Qobuz, but feels weird that they threaten people leaving with losing their libraries.
This would suck for people who only wish to temporarily cancel.
I already transferred to Qobuz, but feels weird that they threaten people leaving with losing their libraries.
This would suck for people who only wish to temporarily cancel.
No worries, I get it and understand it is not ‘my music’ but I can’t imagine that the database of songs I liked is much burden on their server. Either way, the point was the threathening messaging they use.
Its silly
Should instead encourage you to come back later by saying your playlists and such will be saved for whenever youre ready to come back
See this is what I don’t get, like I accept I may be outside the target market or whatever but surely it’s basic psychology that consumers react negatively to this type of “keep paying or loss it all” type shit. Your “no worries, it’ll all be here when you’re ready to resume the subscription” is so much more palatable aka likely to make money, I would have thought.
The visceral reaction to that message by the average person would be “wait, but I don’t want to lose it all!”
You’re right, it’s unhinged. And a lot of people I talk to about this stuff in real life unthinkingly respond along the lines of “You can’t really blame them, it’s good business practice.”
I can and do blame them. They don’t have to be that way, they made a decision and me hating them is not only my right, but an obvious conclusion. I’ll go a step further and hold a grudge against this corporation in the form of a personal boycott. If more people did that maybe they would design for people like us and not the ones willing to shrug off any slight and open their wallets wider.
Tech companies have zero respect towards their users and they are so self absorbed they don’t even realise it themselves how blatend it is. And more and more these kind of messages are going to be ai generated also.
You complying is the norm. Same thing with microsoft putting ads in your existing start menu and uploading your files to the cloud. The fact that people actually rely on their digital services to live is not a responsibility but a market advantage.