I just don't see Facebook's alternate services really going anywhere. They're trying to get into the news world, music world, video world, virtual reality world?... I think they should just stick to working on the social networking side of it and stay away from media. Personally, I'm turned off by Facebook-branded services, and I know others are too, because of the concerns with privacy.
I'm sticking to Spotify, even though the Windows Phone support is lackluster.
I'll also be sticking with Spotify. After making my initial comment on this thread I was thinking to myself about Windows support of Spotify and I thought it would be really awesome if windows just bought Spotify out and integrated it into the operating system. Now THAT would be something.
That would be pretty nice, but I doubt it'd happen. The entertainment team is focusing pretty hard on Groove Music (previously Xbox Music) and that is a direct Spotify competitor. I think if they can introduce better features and better integration to Groove Music, they can steal some of Spotify's market share. Not much reason for buying Spotify in that event.
Microsoft does a GREAT many things right but music has never really been one of them. Groove may completely have me doing a 360 on my opinion (I have yet to use it.) but I think this might be one problem that Microsoft could just solve with an acquisition to be honest.
I think so too. I really loved the Zune system and it was so ahead of its time, but they discontinued it. I feel like if MS had put time and money into improving Zune (both hardware and software) and the Zune Pass model, it could be one of the top competing services today. (Hey, I still use my Zune HD!) Instead, they phased it out and made the functional yet feature-lacking Xbox Music, that basically no one uses because Spotify has taken over the industry.
Here's to hoping MS makes some better decisions on the entertainment side of things soon.
I just don't see Facebook's alternate services really going anywhere. They're trying to get into the news world, music world, video world, virtual reality world?... I think they should just stick to working on the social networking side of it and stay away from media. Personally, I'm turned off by Facebook-branded services, and I know others are too, because of the concerns with privacy.
I'm sticking to Spotify, even though the Windows Phone support is lackluster.
I'll also be sticking with Spotify. After making my initial comment on this thread I was thinking to myself about Windows support of Spotify and I thought it would be really awesome if windows just bought Spotify out and integrated it into the operating system. Now THAT would be something.
That would be pretty nice, but I doubt it'd happen. The entertainment team is focusing pretty hard on Groove Music (previously Xbox Music) and that is a direct Spotify competitor. I think if they can introduce better features and better integration to Groove Music, they can steal some of Spotify's market share. Not much reason for buying Spotify in that event.
But that would definitely be something.
Microsoft does a GREAT many things right but music has never really been one of them. Groove may completely have me doing a 360 on my opinion (I have yet to use it.) but I think this might be one problem that Microsoft could just solve with an acquisition to be honest.
I think so too. I really loved the Zune system and it was so ahead of its time, but they discontinued it. I feel like if MS had put time and money into improving Zune (both hardware and software) and the Zune Pass model, it could be one of the top competing services today. (Hey, I still use my Zune HD!) Instead, they phased it out and made the functional yet feature-lacking Xbox Music, that basically no one uses because Spotify has taken over the industry.
Here's to hoping MS makes some better decisions on the entertainment side of things soon.