Rush obviously does not have good usability testers. The main reason I use his app is to listen to his show on-demand. I suspect a large fraction of his customer base does the same. The usability of his on-demand show playback is HORRIBLE, especially when you are driving in your car. Micro controls that you cannot hit with a finger tip. The scrubbing control doesn’t work unless you skip forward or backward more than 15 minutes. No auto-advance to the next episode. No skip-ahead 30 seconds button. No indication of the date of the episode you are playing.
It’s even far worse with Microsoft Sync in my Ford Expedition. That’s the worst software ever written by any company anywhere at any time.
If you’re accessing 24/7 via the web, it’s a horrid UI. The site is built in WordPress and the player, Akamai Media Player, has near useless controls, especially when scaled to mobile. The site could be so much better with other off-the-shelf WordPress plugins and themes.
Worse, that player doesn’t function in MS Edge (cuts off), so if you’re in the Windows 10 world, forget it, just download the mp3s and play on your own. To listen live, I just go to to iHeart.
Rush thinks his apps are the latest, greatest. The funny thing is that Progressive Web Apps will be taking over soon, and even Apple will have to go that route in order to merge apps across OS’s.