[majormajor]

> then bought the most popular iOS third-party client as a starting point

If you're ever in a situation where this happens, consider it you're big flashing warning sign about trying to run a competing offering!

(Mac users of a certain age will remember Apple buying SoundJam MP.)

[plorkyeran]

Alien Blue was bought out nearly 9 years ago, so that wasn't actually a sign that bad things were coming soon for other third-party clients.

[alasarmas]

I remember SoundJam MP very well, I still have the box somewhere. The box that I bought from some store in a strip mall on Route 1, maybe CompUSA? Circuit City? The Wiz?

It came with a stereo RCA to 1/8th inch adapter cable, for digitizing audio files straight from your record player / cassette player.

I also remember being bummed that iTunes never properly supported aliases [0] when running under Mac OS 9. And I remember Audion [1]. Heady days indeed!

0. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/La...

1. https://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/

[garbagecoder]

Mac users of a certain age will remember this happening several times and it almost always ended up being better when it was just built in. Reddit's app is garbo.