[thegranderson]

Where do you think Spotify's mobile app falls in this landscape? I would argue it is a great balance between new user needs (the Home and Discover areas), with most power user needs in the playlist/search/playback portions.

It isn't perfect, but it actually feels like an app designed to be used to play back music. Apple Music feels like a big, clunky, advertisement.

[on_and_off]

I would say it is pretty standard.

There is usually some degree of uniformity in streaming apps :

- all the services tend to get the same deals from the majors. Let's say service x gets terms A, service y will push to have the same A.

- they all solve the same problem .

Personally, I am not a big fan of spotify's UI :

- I despise Blur, it is the autotune of design and Spotify uses it a lot.

- As much as I like an app that is easier on my eyes without all these white areas everywhere, spotify is way too dark for my taste .

- it is surprisingly unpolished for such a big mobile team. To be fair a lot of the complexity is self imposed and comes from the fact that the UI is rendered based on the configuration sent by the server (display 3 columns of artists, etc)

Spotify does shine on the playback tech though. ogg vorbis, loudness equalization, etc they are on top of their game here.

[gnud]

The really big thing missing in the spotify mobile client, is being able to see the whole title of songs/albums when looking through a playlist.

[KozmoNau7]

Another thing that's missing from the Spotify app is the ability to play a whole playlist folder, not just individual playlists.