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by fps_doug 1769 days ago
Yes, I miss this so much, I actually stopped using Spotify about 6 years ago. This might be nerdy, but the feeling of instant playback was just great.

This Electron crap is really a race to the bottom, so you can hire the cheapest college drop-outs to cobble together some JavaScript to add feature number 1001.

On another note, this ludde guy is one of the few rock stars in IT to me. Had a lot of fun on ScummVM, played OpenTTD to death, used µTorrent in College, you name it...

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I'm really not seeing the features raining down on the electron client anyway. Seems like it has been the same clunky experience as always.
It's probably easier for various teams not to break things, and it provides a more widely known environment (the browser essentially) to ensure that new hires can be pretty productive.

I definitely miss native apps, but I understand why they're less common now.