I built this website. From scratch. Including the servers.
*nods along*
Guys, not to derail here but the comment about automation in Europe gave me a flashback to the Dutch automat restaurant FEBO, where you put coins in the slot to get your bitterballen and kroket. Whenever I had friends visiting I would always round off the party night by bringing them to FEBO.
It's not made by robots, but since there's nobody to take your order, any screwups are simply your own fault. FEBO has expanded to Spain and Turkey too.
It's really interesting that Spotify launched, and was used by practically everyone in Sweden for what seems like years before suddenly musicians pulled out. The first "vanishing" of music from playlists happened when Spotify went pay in Sweden alone. Why?
Well, rumour has it that while they were working out of offices on Jakobsbergsgatan, they simply downloaded all of their music via The Pirate Bay, so that they'd have some music to build the app around. While this makes sense, the rumour also says that they kept the un-authorized music on for far longer than just the demo-era. Like, until May 2011.
mind you, it's just a really persistent rumour.
I'll take your comment as an anecdata example of a market truth: you can not expand the market by diluting the core.
Expanding the market is done by offering complementary products, services, extensions and specifically targeted similar products. For an easy example, see every single variant of Coca Cola where the product range has just been joined by splenda-sweetened "Coca Cola Free" - but the one time they changed the original the market freaked out.
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