You Can Now Control Spotify Media Playback Within the Strava App

[Lynxpoint]

I wonder what the number of people that still use a phone to track activites is. To me, this seems like a feature that would have made sense before music supporting sport watches became common.

 

[chewbaka]

Um, use an Apple Watch and you get the same stuff, plus I use the Music Player in 'mini mode', and 'keep on top', and it works perfectly. On the apps I use that feed into Strava there is a lot of dead space on the screen.

Oh, just realized that they are referring to people doing workouts in Strava. Hmm, in all the years I've been a Strava user, I have never ever done that. I didn't even know it was possible, not that I'd ever use it now that I know. You learn something new every day...

It was a joke

 

[technicalFoozle]

And still no media controls in their Watch app. Just copy Apple Fitness and swipe over to Now Playing media.

I suppose this is might be why I switched back to Apple Fitness and canceled my Strava sub. OK, it's not entirely that but it was a big part of it.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

I wonder what the number of people that still use a phone to track activites is. To me, this seems like a feature that would have made sense before music supporting sport watches became common.

And yet I still see people with large phones and those mounts looking like they are trying to fly, using them as a bike computer. I mean, just looking at it from an aerodynamic perspective would eliminate that gigantic flying wing on the front of the bike.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

It was a joke

The original post? But it came from Strava. *shrug*

 

[xDKP]

The CEO and some executives from Strava just resigned. It was announced this week.

They’ve been adding “features” like this that don’t focus on their core users while raising prices and eliminating features from the free tier.

At this point, Strava is going to have an uphill battle to compete with Garmin Connect which does focus on it’s core users’ needs.

Biggest difference here is that Strava has the community to reach both Coros, Garmin, Apple Watch and users of other brands. But they have screwed up a couple of times lately.

And they use energy for crap like this, when people have been screaming on all their posts for years for a dark mode - which shouldn't really be rocket science

 

[philcourage]

I always liked the way Spotify syncs the current playing song across all devices ant lets you pause it. I wish I could do that with the stupid Music app.