032 Mendicant Bias

Past performance does not guarantee future results

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm

I guess teaching people how to drag-and-drop audio files onto their phone and open them with VLC would be a much shorter article.

It would be a consistently worse experience going forwards, which I think is the point. A little effort up front (and fun, probably, if you’re into this sort of thing) for a more convenient user experience (and probably extra satisfaction as well) is the reason people do this sort of thing, is it not? Sure, compared to some things you can do with self hosting, it’s not going to be life-changing. But, worth the effort for some. I’m taking notes from this thread as it’s probably the next thing on my to do list.

Alternatively, shout out to Boost for Lemmy - from the creator of one of the best Reddit 3rd party clients (RIP Boost for Reddit).

The linked article was certainly interesting/alarming, but the original article that seems to have prompted it was a bit questionable to me. Seemed to be a contrived argument from someone knowledgeable to know what all the options meant, complaining that someone who didn’t would get confused - yet in reality, that “normal” user isn’t going to go looking in the extended menu, they would just click the icon, or press the physical button on the laptop.

This doesn’t feel like an answer to the question. Sounds like you’re saying that Android and iOS are both now similar, not that one has been victorious over the other.