I am quite curious about what people hat so much about Spotify. I made some excursions the last few years to competitors like Tidal and Apple Music but I just found myself coming back because the Spotify mobile app experience (and desktop) was just plain better.
replyI wonder what gripes people have.
The website, desktop app, and mobile apps all have different feature sets, for one. There are things that you can only do in one of them, but it is a different one of them for each thing. There is no one feature set. It feels so cobbled together, with each platform doing their own thing.
replyAlso, the website is slow and buggy, and the Electron “desktop” app is even worse. Both gobble up way too many resources and soft-crash constantly. The app does not lock up, but simply stops working. Often it even shows an error like “Spotify cannot play this song right now.”.
It's cool to hate on Spotify now I guess. But I agree with you, Spotify works really well for me.
replyThe article is about Shopify, not Spotify.
replyI wonder how many of the 100k+ enginners at Google work on that "simple" text box that shows you relevant websites to the input text.
replyI'm guessing that maybe 4 of them maintain that in their "20% time", while the 99,996 other engineers are:
reply"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." -Jeff Hammerbacher
It’s not that much about scalling software, as scalling software on highly concentered nodes. Distribution downstream can be its own hell, admittedly, but otherwise having fully independent copy of software copies that run in local terminal is a no-brainer if all that matter is running software at scale.
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