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My theory is that they don't have the incentive. Apple Genius was ridiculously good at music discovery, too. I shudder to think how much I spent on iTunes songs via genius over its run. But now that apple/spotify/etc get my monthly dollars either way, there's no huge incentive for them to create the discovery systems.


The incentive (for Spotify) is to make you consume the least amount of media, since every stream requires CDN and Bandwidth costs, plus royalties.




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