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Have you thought about Apple Watch? Sure it lacks the physical buttons, but from my experience it is quite responsive with sweaty fingers.

Nextgrid 4y ago
Edit: I stand corrected, see comment below. --- I don't believe you can download & save Spotify tracks on the watch itself - it still only operates as a companion app to the main iPhone one. So your only option is Apple Music which is a pile of shit.
- elAhmo 4y ago
  It is somewhat of a recent addition, but you can now do that as well: download music and play it from Spotify without having your phone. I think they added it earlier last year, I was using it during summer.
- derwiki 4y ago
  What's the beef with Apple Music? Besides Discovery Weekly on Spotify, they seem about the same to me
  - Nextgrid 4y ago
    Spotify beats Apple Music on performance alone. Search results and playback are instant on Spotify, but have a couple seconds' latency on Apple Music. The Apple Music client feels like an Electron pile of shit, which is ironic because the Spotify Desktop client is actually Electron and manages to be more performant and feel more native despite that.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    Basically, unless you're all in on the Apple ecosystem, most products from Apple suck, compared to the alternatives. Businesses that are active in multiple markets tend to have worse products for each, compared to businesses that focuses on one market. More concretely, Spotify for me has been a lot better than Apple Music for discovering new music, either via just browsing related artists, public playlists that include what I'm listening to or by following specific people I know have a similar taste to me. I also like that Spotify includes a EQ that I've found helpful at times, when I cannot control the output device. Lastly, I frequently change between OSes and devices (iPhone, Android and other hardware) and doing so with Spotify is really easy, it's just the same everyone. Unsurprisingly, it's not as easy with Apple Music. But that use case is probably very low on the priority for Apple, as mentioned before, they prefer to focus on people within their own ecosystem, which makes perfect sense.

Nextgrid 4y ago

Edit: I stand corrected, see comment below. --- I don't believe you can download & save Spotify tracks on the watch itself - it still only operates as a companion app to the main iPhone one. So your only option is Apple Music which is a pile of shit.

elAhmo 4y ago
It is somewhat of a recent addition, but you can now do that as well: download music and play it from Spotify without having your phone. I think they added it earlier last year, I was using it during summer.
derwiki 4y ago
What's the beef with Apple Music? Besides Discovery Weekly on Spotify, they seem about the same to me
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  Spotify beats Apple Music on performance alone. Search results and playback are instant on Spotify, but have a couple seconds' latency on Apple Music. The Apple Music client feels like an Electron pile of shit, which is ironic because the Spotify Desktop client is actually Electron and manages to be more performant and feel more native despite that.
- capableweb 4y ago
  Basically, unless you're all in on the Apple ecosystem, most products from Apple suck, compared to the alternatives. Businesses that are active in multiple markets tend to have worse products for each, compared to businesses that focuses on one market. More concretely, Spotify for me has been a lot better than Apple Music for discovering new music, either via just browsing related artists, public playlists that include what I'm listening to or by following specific people I know have a similar taste to me. I also like that Spotify includes a EQ that I've found helpful at times, when I cannot control the output device. Lastly, I frequently change between OSes and devices (iPhone, Android and other hardware) and doing so with Spotify is really easy, it's just the same everyone. Unsurprisingly, it's not as easy with Apple Music. But that use case is probably very low on the priority for Apple, as mentioned before, they prefer to focus on people within their own ecosystem, which makes perfect sense.