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I still don’t understand how Spotify doesn’t invest more in its iOS experience. Sure, they don’t have access to Siri, but that’s the only thing outside their co
by mortenjorck 8y ago
I still don’t understand how Spotify doesn’t invest more in its iOS experience. Sure, they don’t have access to Siri, but that’s the only thing outside their control: The Spotify app takes far too long to load for a music player, even on an iPhone XS; the UI takes a one-size-fits-all approach to list views that looks slapdash compared to Apple Music’s nice album view; the now-playing screen is cluttered and still inexplicably hides the status bar on modern, large phones.
And don’t get me started on how they threw away their excellent iPad UI in favor of a blown-up version of the phone UI.
If Spotify is losing to Apple Music, the answer is a better core experience, not bundling Hulu.
- justwalt 8y agoThe things I hate about the Apple app are the fact I can’t swipe from the left to queue a new song, and the fact that if you’re shuffling all songs then you simply can’t use the play next feature at all. That ability did exist at one point, along with play last (it would queue a song at the end of the play next queue, but before the rest of the shuffled songs), but it’s been removed since iOS 9 or 10 now.
- InterimNew 8y agoI'm not sure when you last checked, but you can add songs either next in the queue or at the end of the queue when shuffling songs. I've just tested this on iOS 12.2. While you can't swipe to queue, you can force-touch on a song to bring up the quick menu, and then release over 'play-next'. A different gesture, but still a single gesture/tap.
- justwalt 8y agoYou're right, I just tested as well. Thanks for letting me know!