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"What are products you use frequently but still hate/they suck? What are products you use frequently but think they could be done better?"
Does anyone have something to add this year?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715548
But it syncs nicely with my phone, lets me download songs for listening on planes, and has decent little features like discovery playlists.
Spotify. The Mac desktop app often stops being able to play songs until you can restart the app, an issue they've been aware of for months if not a year. The catalogue is an absolute mess and there's no way to report metadata issues, or transparency about which editions records are based on. But it syncs nicely with my phone, lets me download songs for listening on planes, and has decent little features like discover…
Spotify. The Mac desktop app often stops being able to play songs until you can restart the app, an issue they've been aware of for months if not a year. The catalogue is an absolute mess and there's no way to report metadata issues, or transparency about which editions records are based on. But it syncs nicely with my phone, lets me download songs for listening on planes, and has decent little features like discover…
On iOS and macOS, a new session from idling a long time often won't start playing the last track, saying it can't find it.
Another annoyance is when someone edits the playlists or licensing situation may have changed, and songs just drop out of existence, so you never really "own" anything and there's zero permanence.
It's better to have your own collection and use Spot, Last or Panda as discovery mechanisms.
Apple Music.app - gets worse with every release.
If I don't find what I need in the first few results I have to scroll endlessly. No amount of filtering or sorting helps.
The browsing experience is lacking. I think most people have been trained to buy specific items, rather than searching for the product that is good for them.
It has a ton of icons and labels and whatnot that for me provide only clutter. They never completely integrated the 'tasks' or 'notes' or whatever they used to call it either. It's also much slower to load.
Amazon.com If I don't find what I need in the first few results I have to scroll endlessly. No amount of filtering or sorting helps. The browsing experience is lacking. I think most people have been trained to buy specific items, rather than searching for the product that is good for them.
However, I don't think I have used an amazon product where the UX wasn't a mess...