As I recall it. This was mostly a money scam that targeted private users with ads like "make sure to claim to your .name domain so no one else does it and use it to impersonate you". It was stupid from the beginning and never took off.
I am a user since the beginning and had premium for almost as long. The state of the app is bad. Crash fest. They pretty much brags about that they slop code it. But was it better before? Let me give you a hall of fame of historical bugs/features.
1. Impossible to purge the play queue. Had to delete every track one by one.
2. Completely broke liked songs years after the feature was launched.
3. They broke offline mode like a billion times. Just download everything again. Especially annoying back in the days when mobile data was expensive. Still does not work like half of the time.
4. Changed to a yellow typeface! I am not even kidding.
5. Included some bittorrent like file sharing in the background.
It is like a running joke that Norway can buy anything. The oil fund makes more money than the oil for the state btw. So don't underestimate their financial skills.
> Det har siden kl. 01 mandag 3. august pågått et tjenestenektangrep (DDoS) som rammer ID-porten som driftes hos Digdirs driftspartner Vivicta.
> Since 0100 hours Monday August 31st there's been an ongoing DDoS attack which affects the ID-Portal which is run/hosted by DepDig's (Department of digital services') service provider Vivicta.
(My translation)
Ed: just realized Vivicta is TietoEvery with a haircut and new shoes:
China is not winning if there even is a winning outside of politics. China is still clearly copying stuff as always. The mote will never be about doing simple things. It is about swimming at the deep end of the pool. The simple stuff will be running on any device in future. Complicated stuff will be using more tokens than one can imagine today.
