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Spotify would be vastly improved going native. That thing has ridiculous lag when loading the app, trying to play a song. I have an older iPhone, so it's much
by SyneRyder 9y ago
Spotify would be vastly improved going native. That thing has ridiculous lag when loading the app, trying to play a song. I have an older iPhone, so it's much more noticeable, but then when you use the built-in music app and see how fast it is, it's inexcusable. I've started buying music again instead of using Spotify because of it.
It's not just my ancient iPhone though - the Mac Spotify client regularly sticks for at least 30 seconds on the Browse screen, or if I try to search for an item. I could literally type my search, go make a coffee, and by the time I return it will almost be ready to display the result.
As for Slack, I deleted it because it was so slow and a resource hog. Pushover is faster and less resource intensive for my purposes.
>Don't we promote MVPs around here as well?
That's to get it out the door and evaluate whether it has business potential. That's not meant to be your final product. If your product is just an MVP you don't have much of a competitive moat - you also want it to be difficult for competitors to match what you have.
- seanwilson 9y ago> the Mac Spotify client regularly sticks for at least 30 seconds on the Browse screen, or if I try to search for an item. Works great for me. I could understand not liking it if it did that on my machine though.
- SyneRyder 9y agoI wonder if it's struggling with the size of some of my playlists. I've got a 70 hour coding music playlist, that's the only thing I can think would slow it down during startup. My machine has 16GB RAM. Helpful to know I might be an isolated case, though.
- mercurysmessage 9y agoHmm, 70H and downloaded? Because I have a 63H playlist in my 'Playlists' that I didn't make but have, and I have no lag like you describe on my Windows 10 machine.
- SyneRyder 9y agoThe 70hrs isn't downloaded on my Mac desktop, just streaming. I've timed Spotify ("native" Mac app) at 25 seconds from launch to UI - but even at that point, the Browse UI still doesn't appear for a long time. Guess I'm just unlucky on this one. Thanks for the additional info though.