PayPal is not pleased with music streaming service Pandora, which last October debuted a new simplified logo with a design aesthetic similar to the digital payments company. In a lawsuit filed last week, PayPal lawyers went out of their way to paint Pandora as a struggling has - been tech company with a terrible business model and waning popularity, according to Gizmodo. The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, says Pandora "has no path to profitability" and "deserted its longstanding logo and latched itself on to the increasingly popular PayPal Logo as part of its efforts to catch up to its competition. "
This particular tech industry beef is so interesting because of the alarmingly deluded self - image PayPal has cooked up for itself. Sure, PayPal is likely much more useful to the general populace as a payments app than Pandora is as a streaming service. That's especially true given Pandora's inability to keep pace with Apple Music, Spotify, and the scores of other competitors that have long since abandoned internet radio as the de facto streaming model. Pandora has since switched its focus to a premium streaming model, with a rather smart focus on the underserved country music community, but PayPal's criticisms still stand, even if they are unusually harsh for a corporate lawsuit.
Source: The Verge
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