Urls can be too long to be memorable and useful on a audio medium like radio or podcasts. So if you can give them a domain they know and a keyword or phrase it becomes extremely useful.
Podcasts are almost exclusively mp3. There is no need for lossless fidelity on those. And when you are subscribed to 200 podcasts like I am a small file size matters. And when listening at 2.5x speed lossless is a complete waste.
I'm with you on this. If Google didn't change it then they were risking lawsuits. Big difference between milking customers for more with less vs caving to avoid lose.
The responses so far are not specific examples of individual companies, brands features etc. They suffer the same problem as the article. Please be specific.
For example when you say subscriptions on cars maybe mention BMW trying to put a subscription on heated seats.
A vehicle for grift.
Buy shares in a company.
Convince the government to buy it.
Get paid.
Remember when Republicans wanted to privatize everything because government is slow, bloated and inefficient? Now they are endorsing government takeovers of companies.
When you follow a party it creates a shortcut in the brain that stops you from questioning if an action of theirs is consistent with its beliefs. Next thing you know the party has changed all its positions and the followers don't even realize that it changed but they still follow it.
People voted for Trump because they thought he would ban all abortions. But he changed the official party platform to only want to ban late term abortion. When you show them the text they refuse to believe it even when you have them read it out loud. The platform changed. The platform changed and those single issue voters didn't care because they believed it didn't change.
We now have meme restoration specialists.
I guess the dream job path is to get hired by the meme archivists at Know Your Meme. Then get a big gallery exclusive for niche collections like Advice Animal and Unpopular Opinion Meme Counter Culture.
Good work. I look forward to your lifetime achievement award in 40 years.
I'm also on boost. I didn't go back because it was completely empty.