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Anthropic can prevent people from using their models with the subscription plan outside Claude Code, why couldn't Spotify?

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Because millions of Spotify-compatible speakers are sold with firmware that will never be upgraded, so they can't ever change the Spotify connect protocol without breaking those devices.

... and no company ever broke backwards-compatible support.

I'd say it's a good thing they are not (?)

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