You're designing an iOS audio bookmark feature on a whiteboard, no code. Which questions do you ask first to pin down the vague requirements?
Ask first whether a bookmark is per track or per playback position, whether cross-account sync and offline are needed, who wins when two devices edit the same bookmark, what happens to bookmarks on deleted tracks, and what the success metric is, then write down whatever has no answer as an assumption and proceed.
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