Add it to the fact that, quoting from the aa’s blogpost,

≥70% of songs are ones almost no one ever listens to (stream count < 1000).

The vast majority of the artists are to be “stiffed” of like $3 or less per track during the nearest eternity iff every single one of their listeners is to download the archive and only listen to locally saved copies. Which, given spotify tries to do it themselves by recommending (and, likely, creating) ai slop, tells us more about their predatory practices than of anything else

Does it matter, tho? To me it looks like all phones are ultimately the same for quite a while now. Pixels used to be better mostly due to providing the ability to effortlessly unlock the bootloader while being the de facto aosp testing target, but as of lately they’ve decided to fix that, not to mention their moves to enshitify away the option to side load the apps. Samsung’s always been a wannabe crapple, and crapple is crapple.