| ▲ | AndroTux 7 hours ago | |
This one drives me nuts. Not just on Mac, also on iPhone/iPad. It's 2026, and 5G is the killer feature advertised everywhere. There's no reason to default to downloading gigabytes of audio files if they could be streamed with no issue whatsoever. | ||
| ▲ | jlokier 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
I'm on 5G right now and it just struggled to load the HN front page due to local network congestion. At times of day when it's not congested it reaches 60-90Mbyte/s in the same physical location Spotify just gave up while trying to show me my podcasts. I can't listen to anything not already downloaded right now. Yet at 3am I'll be able to download a 100GB LLM without difficulty onto the same device that can't stream a podcast right now. Unfortunately I don't think 5G is the streaming panacea you have in mind. Maybe one day... | ||
| ▲ | melonpan7 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Only reason I still download from Apple Music to device is for lossless and hi-res lossless, which would otherwise use a lot of cellular data. | ||
| ▲ | frereubu 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
On 5G, it depends. There are still plenty of people around the world who don't have unlimited data plans. | ||