I already have the desktop app, what difference should this even make? Pointless gatekeeping by the devs

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    152·
    1 year ago

    It’s easy for the service to know if the user account has listened to the podcast, and equally easy to track listens in a webapp. The line between webapp and app is very thin these days anyway.

    • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      The line between webapp and app is very thin these days anyway.

      While the user experience may be similar (and in many cases is identical) access to device information is different. For instance, a webapp can not determine the devices volume whereas an Android app can. Device APIs can provide much more confidence that an activity has occurred. I doubt this was an arbitrary decision or gate-keeping by the developers.