App from 90s – HEOS Review

I have an AVR-X3400, and the reason I bought it was my past experience with an AVR-1909, which sounded awesome with movies + music. No complaints with X3400 as well, in terms of sound quality, since I’m still using wired speakers. When I saw the advertised app in the manuals, I thought it would be wonderful to give it a try for Spotify and Tidal. Spotify has Spotify Connect, which does not the device vendor to interfere (which is obviously great after the Heos app experience), but when we look into Tidal, I can see that Heos tried to implement music navigation and the look and feel of the app as if the app was built for iOS version 4. (Try to touch the playlist icon when in “Now playing” card, and experience the flip of list or album cover, which is from the days of iOS) We’re not asking you to curate playlists, or copy the whole vendor app into HEOS app, but you’re trying to compete with Sonos! Wake up! This is a connected, app-tified world, and you’re already behind! The only major update to the app is “added support for 2018 series, added support for 2019 series...”. Seriously? You’ll face the inevitable end of a device manufacturer like Blackberry.
Review by amusey on HEOS.