You can argue that it’s a planned obsolescence scheme, but that’s a negative way to look at it. That’s where newer hardware can compensate.
Spotify mac app search is slow software#
So naturally, the software gets more bloated and “heavier” over time. If you want a clean, light OS, consider Linux, or macOS for a friendlier experience.ĭevelopers write for the demands of the market, and the market wants more and more features as it seems. Unfortunately, there’s not much competition in this market space. That would be very good examples where "old" hardware works still just as quick and relieable as ever. No, you don't need to buy new phones so that you can still connect to cell towers or WiFi networks. What exactly is in there, that old hardware takes longer than before to do the same task? Are you a software engineer and have an example and a description how that is supposed to work?īy the way.
But that doesn't check out if you ask me. You make it sound like it is a natural outcome of new hardware, that new software made for it must run slower on older hardware. Is the solution really to buy a disk so quick, that it can fuck itself up even more, but we don't see it as much because of raw hardware power? How about an OS that doesn't fuck itself up over time? These do exist - Linux for example. It gets slower with every reboot, so to say. Windows fucks itself up more and more over time. The typical Windows boot time and SSD examples are really bad ones. Where is the benefit of newer hardware, if the new software runs exactly as slow on new devices, but even slower on old hardware? That seems to be an overall step back to me. Just wanted to spread the good news for people out there also pulling their hair out due to shitty desktop app performance.
Now I just came across this after months of exhaustive searching, so I apologize if this is a well known fix. Well today, after Spotify refusing to load for about 15 mins, I went ahead and did my typical Google search for new solutions and finally came across a solution that actually works.
Spotify mac app search is slow pro#
I had just given up and figured it was just the way the app worked with traditional hard drives (because the app was as slick running as ever on my personal solid state MacBook Pro at home). I've tried every half assed solution offered up by Spotify and the problem persisted. 10 minute start-ups, blank black app window screens, search never loading, etc. For about half a year, the Spotify desktop app (at work on a hard drive based iMac) has had horrendous performance issues.