TheCodingArt

I fail to see why I should use Overcast over the stock podcast app. I've tried quite a few and the stock one is still king for me. Especially with it syncing across all of my apple products.

Do they realize that their software sucks?

dachar said:

I wonder if there is really such a big deal? How many people listen to music without images on their TV anyway? 

This is actually a primary way for me.... Personally, I have a Sonos setup... and the Sonos interface is pretty bad. I prefer streaming directly from a native app. The only real problem is that the new Apple TV doesn't have an optical port, which was an idiotic decision on Apple's side.

Another reason for me to stick with Apple Music....

mr o said:

This is significant.

This is not simply about HTML5, is it? It is about progressive web apps: They look and act exactly the same as a native app on your iDevice. The difference is that they don't need an App store. You simply download them from the web and use them offline. They're written in simple HTML5, CSS and vanilla JavaScript. 

Progressive web apps are the future of the web on mobile. I hope Apple recognizes this, and turn the iPhone into a true Internet Communicator.

Have a look at this video here.  It is a Mozilla talk Chris Wilson did a couple of weeks ago:

Anything that uses a parser vs compiler as a baseline technology is already inherently inferior. That's ignoring broken standards and largely fragmented toolsets alongside performance and security. The web world with it's current technology stack is leaps and bounds inferior to native application development. There's a reason a first class application is typically native. You are beyond wrong on this. The future will hopefully be distributable and fragmentable binaries that compile natively rather get parsed.