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.
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.
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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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Ok. I'd thought you were comparing usability of equivalent functions.
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All of the above is why it's more "complex" now.
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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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you can do that without the problems of electron apps, and that's what's being lamented here.
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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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