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It must be nice to live in a world so isolated that smartphones just completely passed you by. Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for

by hbex5 9y ago

It must be nice to live in a world so isolated that smartphones just completely passed you by. Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone.

coldtea 9y ago
>Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone It could be worst, they could be rocking the Dell Ditty. (Yeah, someone in 2015 thought this could be answer to the iPod: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-dj-ditty-512mb/review/ https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-dj-ditty-512mb/review/ )
bananicorn 9y ago
The article states some of the reasons one might have for still owning a zune: > The thing is, with your phone, if you download an app like Spotify, they're asking for access to data on your phone, it's connected to the internet, and they track your location, which they sell to third-party vendors. But the Zune isn't connected to the internet at all, and what I like about the Zune is the privacy element.
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- ant6n 9y ago
  I use an app that plays mp3 files off the storage.
  - bananicorn 9y ago
    That's pretty neat, actually - what do you use? (And for which device?)
    - StavrosK 9y ago
      I rounded up a few apps a while ago, Phonograph was the best for me (for Android).
    - ant6n 9y ago
      I use music folder player on android, since I like to arrange my music in folders (many apps organize by id3 tags, and I don't feel like fixing them on my mp3s, plus it limits the organization).
- zimpenfish 9y ago
  > and they track your location Having just checked, Spotify has no location permissions on iOS.
  - skocznymroczny 9y ago
    And do you trust them to respect those permissions?
    - zimpenfish 9y ago
      No, I mean they don't have any permissions at all - not that they're turned off. Also I'm reasonably confident in iOS's privacy settings when it comes to apps.
    - gatesphere 9y ago
      Short of kernel bugs, there aren't really reliable ways of getting a user's location without having the permissions.

by hbex5 9y ago

coldtea 9y ago

>Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone It could be worst, they could be rocking the Dell Ditty. (Yeah, someone in 2015 thought this could be answer to the iPod: https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-dj-ditty-512mb/review/ https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-dj-ditty-512mb/review/ )

bananicorn 9y ago

The article states some of the reasons one might have for still owning a zune: > The thing is, with your phone, if you download an app like Spotify, they're asking for access to data on your phone, it's connected to the internet, and they track your location, which they sell to third-party vendors. But the Zune isn't connected to the internet at all, and what I like about the Zune is the privacy element.

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ant6n 9y ago
I use an app that plays mp3 files off the storage.
- bananicorn 9y ago
  That's pretty neat, actually - what do you use? (And for which device?)
  - StavrosK 9y ago
    I rounded up a few apps a while ago, Phonograph was the best for me (for Android).
  - ant6n 9y ago
    I use music folder player on android, since I like to arrange my music in folders (many apps organize by id3 tags, and I don't feel like fixing them on my mp3s, plus it limits the organization).
zimpenfish 9y ago
> and they track your location Having just checked, Spotify has no location permissions on iOS.
- skocznymroczny 9y ago
  And do you trust them to respect those permissions?
  - zimpenfish 9y ago
    No, I mean they don't have any permissions at all - not that they're turned off. Also I'm reasonably confident in iOS's privacy settings when it comes to apps.
  - gatesphere 9y ago
    Short of kernel bugs, there aren't really reliable ways of getting a user's location without having the permissions.