For me, while Mog has more songs, they lose to Rdio in their UI, their iPhone app, and the social aspect of the service.
When I was comparing them, it was neck and neck between the two, but I couldn't stand Mog's crashy AIR player compared to Rdio's rock-solid AIR player. The Rdio website is much more intuitive and usable, IMO. Also, the new Rdio for Mac app is crazy awesome. The Mog iPhone app used to sign me out all the time, too, which was really irritating.
I've also found a lot more new music through Rdio than I ever did when I was using Mog. The social features are nice because I've been able to find people who like the same type of music and then listen to new music they discover.
It's all a lot of little things, but they added up to make Mog really quite unacceptable for me.
MOG was around way before Rdio. And for me, its all about the music. I could care less about social features and never ran into problems with the AIR client or the phone client.
I'm an Rdio user and I've been trying Spotify today. I'm not thrilled with their music library. There are a bunch of bands that I love that Rdio doesn't have (Arcade Fire, Shins, Ramones, Pink Floyd, older Flogging Molly, newer Eisley, etc.). There are only a few albums that I really want that Rdio doesn't have, by contrast.
I feel like Spotify's UI is just a gray iTunes, whereas Rdio's UI is more in line with how I think about music. The search function in Spotify is really poor compared to Rdio.
Rdio blows away Spotify in terms of the discovery and social aspects. I really like the ability to follow people that have the same tastes as I do. I've found a bunch of new bands that way. With Spotify, you have to find friends on Facebook and Twitter. And no offense to my friends, but I think their taste in music sucks.
It's true that most of the bands you listed were not available a while back, but I believe all of them are available now. We are missing some Pink Floyd though.
I just cancelled my Rdio subscription because of missing artists. There's one really really easy way for you to fix this issue though. Let me manage music that's not in your catalogue so I don't have to pull out iTunes, and so I can mix and match those songs into Rdio playlists.
I'm pretty sure that dstone meant to write that Spotify was missing those bands (e.g. Arcade Fire et al), not Rdio. I've been listening to a good bit of Arcade Fire on Rdio lately, and just confirmed that they aren't available on Spotify.
iTerm 2 has that feature. It's a very good Terminal replacement. The only complaint I've heard about it is that the rendering can be kinda slow if you're drinking from a firehose like dmesg.
Off the top of my head, the big ones are offline reading, keeps your furthest-read position (especially across devices), Kindle integration. I'd pay $5 for any one of those alone.
The new features in 3.0 that Marco seems to think are the differentiating features are the ability to see friends' saved articles and editorial content. The editorial picks are pretty good, but nothing that you couldn't get with Reading List. The social integration works if you know people who have Instapaper.
But those first three are really the nicest bits, in my opinion.
Totally agree. They make setting everything up a snap. They've got presets for most of the services you might use on the web and if you want to customize your DNS records, the editor is very nice.
If that's a solid sheet of microfiber on the inside, then I'm sold. The thing that irritates me most about the Smart Cover is that it leaves streaks on the glass where the indentations are.
Fascinating. I'm going through sort of the same thing myself. I'm writing ASP.NET MVC and C# at work. I like C#. I think ASP.NET MVC is a good framework.
That being said, I've been doing .NET stuff for a good 9 years now (2001, when the first public beta was released). I'm kind of tired of it. I don't feel I'm learning a whole lot of new stuff and it doesn't excite me anymore. I've been dabbling in Ruby and Rails recently and playing with node.js. This stuff is interesting.
Thanks. It's more the case I have the opportunity, as I'm in start-up mode again. However hard I tried to lay out a balanced case on my thought process I still expected a bit of a 'Why does he hate Microsoft?' reactions.
I'm living in a house Microsoft helped pay for, and as others have commented, the tools aren't really everything. I can enjoy ruby or python or anything else as I see the same patterns in them all.
In short, we live in interesting times and it's fun to explore if you get the chance.
As a native english speaker, I paused when I saw that construct too. Looking at the google results, these are examples of the way I would expect those words to be put together:
* "Video games could make violence on the whole seem more 'okay.'"
* "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised to make violence on the basis of sexual orientation a priority for her office."
The only google result that seems similar to the original article is from asianoutlook.com:
"You can make violence on weeds, ideas, and terror, but not war."
In that sense, it's closer to the phrase "make war on", which is much more common. Without knowing any asian languages, I would assume that they use war and violence somewhat interchangeably, which would explain the odd phrasing.
I'm pretty amazed by the recent decisions Microsoft has made with respect to open source projects. The level to which they've been cooperating with the community on Mono, jQuery, and the Iron* languages is something I certainly haven't seen before.
And the fact that they're accepting contributions to the NuGet project is pretty awesome too. .NET has needed something similar to gems for a while now.
I'm friends with the Microsoft BizSpark Evangelist in SV, and there's people working very, very hard to communicate and advocate for open source ideology within Microsoft.
There's a lot of cool stuff coming out of Microsoft, and if we support it and encourage is as a hacker community, hopefully, they'll continue down that road.
Yeah this is surprising as an ex .NET developer. Another packaging project is http://coapp.org/ I believe the coapp project owner is now a Microsoft employee (presumably a good sign even if NuGet wins).
I'm surprised too, but to be frank almost looks to me like some strings were cut in the puppet-mastery of MS executive management, and in the relative power vacuum, more engineering-focused personnel are doing what they think is best for the tech.
For me, while Mog has more songs, they lose to Rdio in their UI, their iPhone app, and the social aspect of the service.
When I was comparing them, it was neck and neck between the two, but I couldn't stand Mog's crashy AIR player compared to Rdio's rock-solid AIR player. The Rdio website is much more intuitive and usable, IMO. Also, the new Rdio for Mac app is crazy awesome. The Mog iPhone app used to sign me out all the time, too, which was really irritating.
I've also found a lot more new music through Rdio than I ever did when I was using Mog. The social features are nice because I've been able to find people who like the same type of music and then listen to new music they discover.
It's all a lot of little things, but they added up to make Mog really quite unacceptable for me.