Re:Ask HN: How many of you are using windows phone?
by roryisok on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:34PM
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Perfect opportunity to build your own podcast app. Out of interest, what did you dislike about the built in one and the alternatives?
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are using windows phone?
by ausimian on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:52PM
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1. It took too long to start.
2. Navigating between specific pages of the app was slow.
3. It would sometimes get into a bad state if a podcast failed during streaming, requiring a restart of the app.
4. More generally, the audio stack seemed a little bit flakey. Very occasionally switching between music and podcasts would crash the phone.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are using windows phone?
by roryisok on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:12AM
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Well, number 4 sounds like more of an OS problem really =/ I guess there's no app that could have fixed that for you.
Is it better on the iphone? I tried to switch a while back but didn't do my homework, bought an iphone 4 and though it was a nice little handset it was limited to iOS 7 I think, and most apps wouldn't install. that was my one and only foray into iphones
I'm not a power user, I don't use social media apps, just a few daily texts, a bit of browsing, music and podcasts. I also liked the simplicity of the UI.
Ultimately, I got tired of the crappy inbuilt podcast app and lack of decent alternatives. My wife bought me a second hand apple 5s which arrived yesterday.
I already miss the 'swipey keyboard'.