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Offline music is really about fitness users, if you’re not a runner I can see how it looks useless. Anyone who wants it has switched off of Spotify by now, so a
by wlesieutre 5y ago
Offline music is really about fitness users, if you’re not a runner I can see how it looks useless. Anyone who wants it has switched off of Spotify by now, so at this point it probably doesn't matter if they ever get around to it.
- whywhywhywhy 5y ago>Offline music is really about fitness users Isn’t the entire concept of the device about fitness users? Seen as it failed to carve out any other niche.
- wlesieutre 5y agoMore or less, I should have said runners. No need for offline music if you're weightlifting or sitting on an exercise bike. So it's a subset of the fitness userbase. But a big enough one that Spotify did eventually get this done. But I sorta wonder if their main motivation was that it was a bad look to continue complaining about Apple not letting them make a watch app on their "Apple is cheating" timeline, while also choosing to not make a watch app. If they actually cared about doing it, why take so long?
- Thrymr 5y agoOffline music is also useful for travel: airplanes, car trips with imperfect cell coverage, train tunnels, etc. Not a small use case at all.
- wlesieutre 5y agoAh that's true, I just tend to use podcasts for all that. Which I suppose is also a Spotify issue now, what with them turning into a podcast company.