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I was a long time user until yesterday. Due to working at MSFT, I had been on the 7/8 windows phone train for a few years with a few devices, latterly a 925. I
by ausimian 9y ago
I was a long time user until yesterday. Due to working at MSFT, I had been on the 7/8 windows phone train for a few years with a few devices, latterly a 925.
I'm not a power user, I don't use social media apps, just a few daily texts, a bit of browsing, music and podcasts. I also liked the simplicity of the UI.
Ultimately, I got tired of the crappy inbuilt podcast app and lack of decent alternatives. My wife bought me a second hand apple 5s which arrived yesterday.
I already miss the 'swipey keyboard'.
- roryisok 9y agoPerfect opportunity to build your own podcast app. Out of interest, what did you dislike about the built in one and the alternatives?
- ausimian 9y ago1. It took too long to start. 2. Navigating between specific pages of the app was slow. 3. It would sometimes get into a bad state if a podcast failed during streaming, requiring a restart of the app. 4. More generally, the audio stack seemed a little bit flakey. Very occasionally switching between music and podcasts would crash the phone.
- roryisok 9y agoWell, number 4 sounds like more of an OS problem really =/ I guess there's no app that could have fixed that for you. Is it better on the iphone? I tried to switch a while back but didn't do my homework, bought an iphone 4 and though it was a nice little handset it was limited to iOS 7 I think, and most apps wouldn't install. that was my one and only foray into iphones