Yeah, I would agree the loss of agency was also a meaningful impact. That’s also pretty visible in Apple’s products today—I only ever use the Music app on my iPhone for music I own and synchronize, but it will still give me occasional popups about signing up for the Music subscription.
There are stories about people having specific versions of a song, or even making original music that they stored on Apple devices, and those devices automagically “identified” them, removed them unprompted and replaced them with something else from the cloud.
Personally that’s why I don’t trust services that advertise “just working” and doing everything for you. I want control over what I use.
Yeah, I would agree the loss of agency was also a meaningful impact. That’s also pretty visible in Apple’s products today—I only ever use the Music app on my iPhone for music I own and synchronize, but it will still give me occasional popups about signing up for the Music subscription.
There are stories about people having specific versions of a song, or even making original music that they stored on Apple devices, and those devices automagically “identified” them, removed them unprompted and replaced them with something else from the cloud.
Personally that’s why I don’t trust services that advertise “just working” and doing everything for you. I want control over what I use.