Maybe the Apple event is taking all the bandwidth or they cut a deal to turn off everything else so you have to pay attention ;)
Likely a joke, but I'm sure Apple events are barely a blip in the ocean of other Internet traffic.
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Agree. They don't care about UX at all. Trivial example: the Home button that doesn't reliably take you home. It's some sort of home/back hybrid where you're never quite sure what it's going to do (this is on iOS). Instead have two buttons: one for Home and one for Back. Then we'd all know what to expect when we pressed one of them. Not difficult, is it? More substantive example: poor integration, to the point of bei…
Yeah, he's gonna come back to life and go work for those bozos :/
Indeed. I was particularly grouchy when I wrote that. I don't hate them, but I do find Spotify's leadership deeply frustrating.
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This is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?
To be more generous, there are also many cases where more obscure music will start evaporating from your playlists. Some of us have serious problems with this kind of UX.
Thats why i decided to keep all my music on myspace. It will stay there forever :) https://mashable.com/article/myspace-data-loss
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#154Is there a minor irony that they recently rejected me without an interview for an SRE role, despite matching 1:1 in my experience to the role they had open? I'm not bitter, but something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first.
Perhaps you’re not the only person who applied and they saw someone else first? You can’t take it personal when companies like that get thousands of resumes.
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#155Is there a minor irony that they recently rejected me without an interview for an SRE role, despite matching 1:1 in my experience to the role they had open? I'm not bitter, but something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first.
Perhaps you’re not the only person who applied and they saw someone else first? You can’t take it personal when companies like that get thousands of resumes.
I’m not taking it personal. I’m just shocked that they had so many great applicants when there are so many that are struggling to hire (including my company) that they wouldn't even have a phone screening interview.
This is Sweden too, where the situation is a bit more dire w.r.t. engineers.
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The desktop app is indeed horrible. To start with, a substantial part of the right hand screen real estate is permanently to your social media presence. Don't want to connect anything? Still can't dismiss this entire waste of space. On iOS it's fairly simply to remove songs from the active queue. God help you on desktop. No consistency in design. Please pay more UI/UX staff, and less Rogan.
on MacOS -> View -> Friends Activity... come on man
Ok thanks.