palmerj3
palmerj3
Feb 25, 2017 · 1 min read

Nice! One thing you only scratched the surface of here is the fact that there are dozens and dozens of separate apps with separate libraries and not sharing any information between each other. So how could we possibly achieve viable recommendations without enough data? There aren’t many companies (or users) who could afford the licensing costs for the end-all app with everything available so, at the moment, it seems like the industry kind of has it backwards… they are data-driving licensing in order to figure out what to pay for. I don’t see any other way and this is just one dudes opinions but seems to me like licensing and exclusivity is the last breath of a dying industry.

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