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The Vergecast
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Spotify and Disney have everything-app dreams
1 hour 17 minutes Posted Nov 15, 2023 at 10:00 am.
The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Spotify’s co-president and chief product officer Gustav Söderström about recommendations, audiobooks, app design, what Spotify wants to be, and whether it’s possible to do it all well. Spotify - The Verge44:08 - Alex Cranz joins the show to discuss a bunch of recent streaming news, including the plan to combine Disney Plus and Hulu. Streaming - The Verge1:10:28 - Chris Welch joins the show to help answer this week’s Vergecast Hotline question about mp3 players.
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Today on the flagship podcast of machine learning-based recommendation systems:03:31 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Spotify’s co-president and chief product officer Gustav Söderström about recommendations, audiobooks, app design, what Spotify wants to be, and whether it’s possible to do it all well. Spotify - The Verge44:08 - Alex Cranz joins the show to discuss a bunch of recent streaming news, including the plan to combine Disney Plus and Hulu. Streaming - The Verge1:10:28 - Chris Welch joins the show to help answer this week’s Vergecast Hotline question about mp3 players. 
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