The ‘TikTokification’ Of Everything Needs to Stop
Spotify is the latest company to copy TikTok — but at what cost?
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If you can’t beat them, join them.
This phrase appropriately describes the tech industry over the last five years. Innovation has been drying up, replaced by frenzied copying and maniac desperation to implement the current trend into a product, regardless of whether it makes sense to do so.
The king of copying has been Meta, with its Co…