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In my experience web apps are almost always worse than native apps unless the native app is just a wrapper around a web app.
by LPisGood 1y ago
In my experience web apps are almost always worse than native apps unless the native app is just a wrapper around a web app.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoThe native Spotify app is just a wrapper around the web app though.
- sneak 1y agoThis is decidedly untrue.
- bigstrat2003 1y agoEven for apps where that is true, sometimes the wrapper adds some features that it doesn't have running in a browser tab. For example, the Discord electron app can get hotkeys when it's not focused (useful for push to talk/mute when playing a game), but not when you run it in a browser.
- lproven 1y ago> a wrapper around the web app All Electron apps are.
- makeitdouble 1y agoIt is generally true regarding the intent of the platform owner (the app is supposed to be better, they'll put efforts into it). The funny part being, you might still want the web version to apply extensions on it. Youtube for instance is a lot better with the auto-dub features and title translations off, but it won't be possible in the native app as Google is actively forcing those on us. I don't use Spotify, but would advise looking it it.
- umbra07 1y agoSpicetify offers a much better experience than web+extensions. And of course, you can use alternate, lightweight clients based on 'librespot' instead.