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What I always find so disappointing in these scenarios is when companies are too chicken-shit to just give a reasonable honest explanation to requests like open sourcing this to avoid them all turning into e-waste.

It feels like adding insult to injury for everyone who put faith in the product/company.

I've been a long-time premium subscriber of Spotify, but I've already decided I will never buy a hardware device from them (even before Car Thing came out) or do something like pay annually for their services, because I don't trust their commitment to anything for more than 30 days at a time at this point.



The honest explanation is that they lost so much money on the idea that they grimace at spending even another hour of developer time on them.

They don't care about waste, they don't care about the consumers, all decisions boil down to profit.


I agree. It’s so obvious that they’re trying way too hard to _not_ be the thing that I’m paying them for (music streaming).




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