Kids don't care about corporate ethics or artist respect, they care about where their friends are and where their playlists and memories live. Spotify is the soundtrack of their lives and my own kids love their sort of curated history of music. Moving their playlists isn't going to happen, asking them to switch to my Apple One subscription would be like asking them to rewrite their social identity. My own household would be in open revolt if I asked them to switch to anything else.
Do your kids pay for Spotify themselves? If I had a family Apple One subscription I wouldn't be very inclined to pay for an essentially redundant music streaming service.
Disinclined, but I would like to publicly thank my parents for a CD Budget that was far too high for a teenager. I was probably averaging 1-3 CDs/month in the 90s, that's a ton of money!
We're talking about a likely inconsequential amount of money for a thing that might be of high importance to a member of the household. What are you talking about?
I’m talking about training kids early that life is about choices and budgeting so when they are grown and operating on a limited budget they aren’t paying for unnecessary subscriptions.
It’s ham radio. It’s very probable that they were already on the brink of failing considering what they made and where they made it. The manufacturing probably isn’t profitable and like most things ham, it was a labor of love.
Hardly a departure, the value is substantial for all those but the user.
The friendship limit you speak of has been hypothesized by an anthropologist (Robin Dunbar) as being in direct correlation to neocortex size. More recently, it's been called "the monkeysphere".
