On: Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

[coolspot]

Likely a condition from IP holders to make sure the play is counted and paid for.

[kevincox → coolspot]

Pennywise pound foolish and harming UX at the same time. They could just require that Spotify logs the plays and uploads them on the next connection. Resulting in more plays and more money. But instead they block it for the 0.1% of the time that the watch is lost, destroyed or reinstalled before that sync happens.

And people wonder why piracy happens.

[creddit → kevincox]

> Pennywise pound foolish and harming UX at the same time. They could just require that Spotify logs the plays and uploads them on the next connection. Resulting in more plays and more money. But instead they block it for the 0.1% of the time that the watch is lost, destroyed or reinstalled before that sync happens.

Why are you just blindly accepting their vapid evidenceless postulation lol

[crwll → coolspot]

Garmin watches can start Spotify playback offline just fine. You need to have synced your playlist within last 30 days, IIRC, and that's it.

[doctorpangloss → coolspot]

Authentic user activity is Apple’s greatest asset to its partners.

[golergka → coolspot]

Spotify has offline mode in their iPhone app