Comment by cronix

5 years ago

> Spotify's original client back in 2008 started out as beautifully light, custom rendered native client.

I think time is a large contributing factor. A lot of things start off simple and elegant. Then you have to come up with new features year after year after year (how old is the product?) in order to not appear stagnant and keep customers happy. "Oh, this other app got x feature, I want this in the app I use too!!!"

Here's kind of a video to illustrate the point, where Rick talks about iTunes. How it used to be, and how it evolved and is now. iTunes once ruled the world. It was simple, and elegant.