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. Alex Cranz joins the show to discuss a bunch of recent streaming news, including the plan to combine Disney Plus and Hulu. Chris Welch joins the show to help answer this week’s Vergecast Hotline question about mp3 players. Spotify news: https://www.theverge.com/spotify Streaming news: https://www.theverge.com/streaming-wars https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/12/15958430/mighty-spotify-ipod-shuffle-preview https://bemighty.com/ The Vergecast Podcast: https://pod.link/430333725 Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv