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Ever hear of the Napster audio app? Not the p2p thing, the paid subscription app? It was just like Spotify, way before Spotify? Oh really, no, you hadn't? Could
by johnfn 10y ago
Ever hear of the Napster audio app? Not the p2p thing, the paid subscription app? It was just like Spotify, way before Spotify? Oh really, no, you hadn't? Could it be because the UI was terrible? Hm.
What about rdio? Back in the day, I remember noticing they had a much better music archive than Spotify in some areas like prog. Still, I never made the switch. (The way they organized music was terrible.) Apparently, neither did anyone else.
I could go on. All these Spotify competitors, all with decent libraries. How did Spotify end up winning?
I'm not saying that songs are unimportant, but if you have trash ux people are going to find an alternative.
- gkya 10y agoSo not electron = trash UX? (edit: I'm an amateur musician, I do know quite a bit about the online music sphere, and I've been a paid user of both Deezer and Spotify in the past. You usually don't know who you're talking to on the internet, so better don't assume things.)
- johnfn 10y agoDid I make assumptions? My bad. Well, I guess I made the assumption that you were unfamiliar with the napster app, so my bad. Other that that I dunno. (I happen to be an amateur musician as well. Fun coincidence.) Anyways, what I'm saying is that using electron is not really correlated to "bad app" and not using electron is not correlated to "good app".