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Re:How Spotify builds products [pdf] by secstate on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:16PM (#6972652)
I would also add that, sadly, rdio has not kept up with Spotify's library. It also seems built less around the user's interest and more to get new music in front of people. Probably great for the artist's reps, but when Drake and 7 Days of Funk shows up under Heavy Rotation and I've never listened to anything resembling either, they've already failed.

And while I applaud their attempts at a native wrapper around HTML5, you can hardly claim that Rdio has "nailed it" with regards to their native app. It's a whole different product.

Re:How Spotify builds products [pdf] by brajkovic on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:25PM (#6972693)
I'm not sure who you're replying to or if I'm reading your post right, but Rdio's mobile app is not a native wrapper around HTML5, it's built on top of Xamarin's stack, which provides API wrappers around the native platform.
Re:How Spotify builds products [pdf] by secstate on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:45PM (#6972768)
I was supporting thenmar's conclusion that there are still things to recommend Spotify over Rdio.

The HTML5 bit was my aside, given that one of the comments to thenmar was with regards to it's user-interface. And I suppose I should have been more specific and referenced the Mac desktop app, not the mobile client.