Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by mrweasel on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:54AM (#23220394)

Sure, but if you could have Spotify as is, or a light weight player, like WinAMP, both with equal access to the Spotify service, which would you pick?

People aren't using Spotify because the player is fantastic, they use it because Spotify has a huge library, is reasonable price and the player is sort of okay.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by marcus_holmes on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:41AM (#23220709)

Totally agree. But the DRM monster rears its head. Everyone is afraid you'll steal their choons if you're allowed to play them on whatever player you like sigh

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by fxtentacle on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:39AM (#23221102)

Still, all iTunes content can be de-DRM-ed in 500 lines of C code, so it's not like "the industry" actually requires it to be secure.

Like everything these days, it's barely good enough. And why bother implementing your DRM as a 1KB C++ library when you can use a 5MB Objective C framework instead?

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