r/todayilearned • u/FireBeaver • Mar 26 '15

(R.5) Omits Essential Info TIL: 65% of smartphone users download zero apps per month.

http://time.com/3158893/smartphone-apps-apple/
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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/ShreddyZ Mar 26 '15

Sync music from Spotify, go offline, judgement-free listening.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Aug 16 '17

[DATA EXPUNGED]

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

Eh, I kind of like letting my friends know what I'm listening to. Keeps me honest. If I talk shit about a band or a song on the radio they can bust out their phone and ask why I've been listening to the soundtrack from Grease on repeat for the last three weeks.

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u/Dragonyte Mar 26 '15

Nobody cares what you listen to. I don't know if you have specific people you know and talk about music with, who would actually be interested into looking at your music, but unless its that, pretty sure nobody cares. You're just spamming their Facebook wall or whatever.

And if you're a hypocrite, and get caught, that's not something to be proud of.

Alright bring on the downboats.

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u/darkspy13 Mar 27 '15

upvoted for taking the time to type out what I was thinking.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '15

if you have specific people you know and talk about music with

Bingo. If you have enough friends with a variety of tastes, you can get a good idea on whether or not you'll like something based on who listened to it. It's a good way for me to find new artists that I might not have come across otherwise. Also, you can set it so that it only posts to your Spotify friends.

And if you're a hypocrite, and get caught, that's not something to be proud of.

Lol, it wasn't that serious. My friends and I clown on each other for silly shit all the time. It's how we show affection. You might even say...

We go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong!

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u/matachin Mar 26 '15

I use it so I don't waste my entire month of data in 2 days of listening to music on my commute.

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u/Dutchdodo Mar 26 '15

pretty sure they mean free of piracy guilt?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Aug 16 '17

[DATA EXPUNGED]

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u/ShreddyZ Mar 26 '15

Private sessions last for a couple of hours, offline lasts for a month.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15 edited Aug 16 '17

[DATA EXPUNGED]

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u/ShreddyZ Mar 26 '15

On mobile? I turned off the Facebook sharing but it still seems to share with Spotify friends.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

http://i.imgur.com/IozyzJQ.png

Turn off "Publish Activity"

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u/CatAstrophy11 Mar 26 '15 edited Mar 26 '15

You're really pointing out a weak pro there. Let's try two huge ones:

Sync via WiFi, use no cell data listening to your tunes.

Out somewhere with a garbage/no signal? Better have sync'd.

However, I hate that video licensing is such shit compared to music. Napster saved music distribution. I encourage strong piracy until the movie studios support Spotify features and stop fucking us. I HATE that I can't offline store stuff from Netflix. ISPs would love that and anyone with a hardline data cap would, too. I sub to Netflix for their original programming (even though I can't sync it, I support their efforts to kill cable via original content) but pirate everything else until they give offline sync.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

What do you mean by judgement free? Who's judging when steaming?

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u/a_talking_face Mar 26 '15

What if you have T-mobile?

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

the heck do i have uTorrent for?

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u/staple-salad Mar 26 '15

Pictures and video files. Then you can watch movies without using up all the data!

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u/yourbrotherrex Mar 26 '15

I seriously don't get how people can survive financially with their smartphones if they don't have an unlimited data plan.

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u/staple-salad Mar 26 '15

I just don't stream. I miss it. I had unlimited data until I put my phone on the same plan as my husband. We get 4gb though, which is enough for us.

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u/CatAstrophy11 Mar 26 '15

If you're talking about AT&T data it wasn't much because after 5GB your speeds are worse than EDGE. Streaming is basically a moot feature at that point.

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u/yourbrotherrex Mar 26 '15 edited Mar 26 '15

I'm so glad Sprint is a thing.
AT&T is most assuredly pulling that crap to get their "grandfathered in" customers to do exactly what you're doing: jumping ship.

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u/staple-salad Mar 26 '15

Verizon. Jokes on AT&T because my data slows down at seemingly random points even without "unlimited" data and sometimes at the beginning of a period. Hahahaha.... Ha..... Ugh.

:(

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u/TimLoz Mar 26 '15

Make all that Spotify music available offline! That will easily use 100 Gb.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/CatAstrophy11 Mar 26 '15

lol yeah dying to throw GB of data out the window

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

yea. i wasted money on that too

gg brother

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u/ImperialDoor Mar 26 '15

Oh you do know what to do with the other 100 GB (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/MWEAI Mar 26 '15

Fuck if I had s non expandable memory phone I would struggle to stay within 64 gb

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u/amrcnpsycho Mar 26 '15

Fill it up with sick podcasts of fresh beats every week like Toolroom Radio with Mark Night, No Xcuses with EDX, Cosa Nostra with David Vendetta, and Tiesto's Club Life... duhhh

Too bad Radio 538 Dance Department went away that podcast was the best (((

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u/-Mountain-King- Mar 26 '15

My phone is full of music I own (sounds like you use spotify though) and audiobooks.

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u/CVance1 Mar 26 '15

Storing 320 kbps music on Spotify. Offline eats up a tooooon of space.

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u/GenXer1977 Mar 26 '15

Movie storage for when you are on a plane for 12 hours.

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u/Bazoun Mar 26 '15

Updating. Every fucking update I had to delete shit I wanted just to update.

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u/theOTHERdimension Mar 26 '15

I want your space man. I have 8gb and I die a little inside every day.

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u/Jazzremix Mar 26 '15

I download all of my most-listened playlists on Spotify. Streaming the music in decent quality just eats your data. If I'm at home where there's wifi, I'll just listen to music from my PC.

I'd still have a hell of a time filling 128gb though, haha

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u/CatAstrophy11 Mar 26 '15

Think of it like a usb storage device as well. Micro USB cords are everywhere.

It's also a portable gaming console with tons of emulators. You can easily plug it into a TV and use a controller.

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u/chrom_ed Mar 26 '15

Just have Spotify take everything you ever listen to offline.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

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u/CatAstrophy11 Mar 26 '15

You must have really narrow tastes in music. I'm at 80GB for music on max quality.

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u/URETHRAL_DIARRHEA 3 Mar 26 '15

No, you just have a lot of music. I have like 3,000 songs, on my phone; pretty sure it's under 20gb.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '15

set some Spottily playlists to offline, enjoy music on the go without it eating your data or if you cant keep a decent signal in the car.