Patrick Says

I keep up with a lot of tech stories and podcasts. I enjoy the field of technology and like to stay up on what’s new. But lately, these tech journalists have been making me angry with their badly-researched comparisons. Mostly, I’m talking about music services.

With Spotify and Google and Amazon cloud storage making their respective debuts, there are a lot of comparisons being made. But many of these comparisons are just flat out wrong. For example, I heard one podcaster talking about the depth of music Amazon had to offer and whether Rdio could match that.

Well, guess what? You’re an idiot.

Amazon cloud storage has ONLY the tracks you either bought or uploaded. It has NOTHING else. Rdio has over eight million songs by purchasing a single subscription and uploading nothing. You can’t compare these services. They do completely different things. It would be like comparing Google to Chrysler.

Here are the comparisons you can actually make:

• Spotify vs. Rdio vs. subscription music services
• Amazon cloud storage vs. Google cloud storage vs. other cloud storage

See how that works? Geez. Get it right, people.
You don’t need a EOTech 512 scope to see this correctly.

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