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    1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 24 Nov 2017

      The "every new thing is just rebranded old thing" take drastically undervalues usability. The individuals who do the work of polishing good ideas into usable products are invisible, even to other tech people who should know better.

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    2. zofrex‏ @zofrex 24 Nov 2017
      Replying to @wycats

      It's tech bro usability though. It's more usable for 90% of people, and who cares about the rest that's a lot of volume and our margins are great

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. zofrex‏ @zofrex 24 Nov 2017
      Replying to @zofrex @wycats

      E.g. I agree with a lot of what you said about Electron apps but native toolkits make more accessible apps

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 24 Nov 2017
      Replying to @zofrex

      All music apps today are more usable than Winamp was, popular tweets be damned.

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    5. Phil Wilson‏ @pip 24 Nov 2017
      Replying to @wycats @zofrex

      I am genuinely astonished that anyone who has used Spotify can say that. Winamp's interface is complex but coherent and consistent. Spotify's interface is dissonant and changes unpredictably. Winamp was definitely mystery meat though. Let's talk Sonique ;)

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 24 Nov 2017
      Replying to @pip @zofrex

      Winamp only worked on Windows, to start. And "syncing music" (either via streaming, uploading etc) which is critical for a huge % of today's usage, was basically out of reach for all but the most advanced users back then.

      4:47 PM - 24 Nov 2017
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        1. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 24 Nov 2017
          Replying to @wycats @pip @zofrex

          Never mind that you could only listen to winamp when tethered to a computer and most people couldn't even get mp3s back then. That's to start. Think none of this is relevant to implementation and business complexity? Of course it is.

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        2. Phil Wilson‏ @pip 24 Nov 2017
          Replying to @wycats @zofrex

          Ok. I'd thought you were comparing usability of equivalent functions.

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        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 24 Nov 2017
          Replying to @pip @zofrex

          All of the above is why it's more "complex" now.

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        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 24 Nov 2017
          Replying to @wycats @pip @zofrex

          If you're willing to make people get their own music, don't care about Mac or mobile, and don't have to deliver the music over flaky networks, sure it's easy. And you'll have reached a handful of people. That's what I mean by usability.

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        5. russell‏ @rpjohnst 24 Nov 2017
          Replying to @wycats @pip @zofrex

          you can do that without the problems of electron apps, and that's what's being lamented here.

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        6. russell‏ @rpjohnst 24 Nov 2017
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          it's doesn't have to be an attempt to discredit the work people do on accessibility

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