Spotify’s insulting ‘Basic’ plan completely misses the mark

Perhaps finally sensing that people who use Spotify want music and not podcasts and audiobooks, the streaming service is throwing those folks a bone. Well, sort of. On Friday, Spotify introduced a ‘Basic’ plan for subscribers in the United States, which enables them to avoid an incoming price increase, by dropping their access to audiobooks. In recent times, Spotify has offered 15 hours of audiobook listening per month as part of the Premium membership perks. The company just put

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