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Apple Considering Standalone iTunes Radio App for iOS 8

ChrisCW11 said:
Rebrand iTunes. Its ridiculous to go to an online media store to buy and rent movies and videos and have it called iTunes. So, how about re-branding iTunes as a radio/music only product and then come out with a new brand for Apple's walled media garden.
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iTunes is a protected brand no one else can use. It is pretty much impossible to register something so generic as "Online Media Store". Apple even failed to protect the word "AppStore".

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So when Apple rebrands the iTunes Store to Apple MediaStore, nothing will stop the competition from opening their own Amazon Mediastore. Unless you can come up with a very specific name for a store selling unspecific media products, it is better to stay with iTunes. Accurate naming and legal brand protectability don't go together.
 
I really don't want another stand-alone app.

It reminds me of Facebook seporating Messenger... it annoys the heck out of me.
 
I'm all for pulling radio out of the music.app
The music app is bloated right now, it really should just be a simple media player to minimize resource usage. I don't use it as my primary audio app app anymore because Soundcloud is way better at the end of the day for my purposes.

Follow a few DJs and record labels you like and you get new mixes and music everyday, without interruptions and I never accidentally open the iTunes store while working out because of poor button placement. Also, swiping right and left for skipping tracks and no commercials makes me only open iTunes when I can't get reception.
 
dannyyankou said:
Good point. Everyone should also be running the early Mac OS.

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I still like this design language. And Mavericks isn't far off, once you toggle the right settings.

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Lion was the release that did away most of the Aqua design and returned to my beloved gray.

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Lion's new look

Let's ease into things with a tour of Lion's revised user interface graphics. Though Apple still uses the name "Aqua" to refer to Lion's interface, the look is a far cry from the lickable, candy-coated appearance that launched the brand. If you can imagine three dials labeled "color," "contrast," and "contour," Apple has been turning them down slowly for years. Lion accelerates that process. – John Sirracusa Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review

I just wish, iOS would take the same direction.

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Apple, please stop making your phones for teenage girls.
 
NO THANK YOU!!!! I use iTunes Radio all the time and I can tell you I would bE EXTREMELY upset if it had its own app. It's music it belongs in the music app.
 
Deciphered means

we can't work out how to integrate music, podcasts and iTunes Radio into a seamless user experience. so we have said **** it. We couldn't agree on what buttons to leave out and what view to make it so we did something only apple could do. We separated them, left everything in and painted them all white.

Seems about par for course at the moment.
 
atmc said:
Each day iTunes Radio is not available in Europe, Apple gives market to other musing services like Spotify. Releasing iTunes Radio in more countries should be what Apple is considering.
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They obviously are, however they have to renegotiate rights with each country individually. Let them test it out in one market, get the bugs out and nail a final presentation method –*then roll it out to more users once testing shows they got it rolling right. Hopefully by then the rights in more countries will have been sorted out. Just look at what happened with the iTunes music store as foreshadowing for this.

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Bearxor said:
The amount of "bloatware" Apple has been adding to their devices out of the box is starting to become... bothersome.
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Bloatware? It's a feature app! Most people I know would rather not have to download everything they want right away.
 
Gudi said:
I still like this design language. And Mavericks isn't far off, once you toggle the right settings.

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Lion was the release that did away most of the Aqua design and returned to my beloved gray.
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OT, while I like the graphite theme, I hate hate hate the grey sidebars introduced in lion. It makes quickly IDing icons harder. . I have a hack to enable the color versions.

Colors are good and can be useful, but I agree they are too garish in iOS 7. It's the green that really got to me, though they toned it down in 7.1. Now it's more the awful gradients than anything else that I dislike.
 
Gudi said:
I still like this design language. And Mavericks isn't far off, once you toggle the right settings.

Image

Lion was the release that did away most of the Aqua design and returned to my beloved gray.

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Lion's new look

Let's ease into things with a tour of Lion's revised user interface graphics. Though Apple still uses the name "Aqua" to refer to Lion's interface, the look is a far cry from the lickable, candy-coated appearance that launched the brand. If you can imagine three dials labeled "color," "contrast," and "contour," Apple has been turning them down slowly for years. Lion accelerates that process. – John Sirracusa Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review

I just wish, iOS would take the same direction.

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Apple, please stop making your phones for teenage girls.
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What does this have to do with whether iTunes Radio is a standalone app or not? :confused:
 
On the (off) topic of colors: personally I really like iOS 7's look. It's great, when I went back to the states for a week last month I pulled out the iphone 5 still on 6.1.x, it seemed so clunky and old. I hated it. I also love the CC, I use it at least 50 times a days.

But ios 7 is really fresh feeling and stylish.
 
Bearxor said:
The amount of "bloatware" Apple has been adding to their devices out of the box is starting to become... bothersome.
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Hummm… I see this as a bloat reduction. Adding it to the Music app makes it more complex and bloated… making it separate should make it a better App and easier to access and use. I see this as a good move. They are #3 in on-line radio use and this will help them get to #2 easily.
 
Am I the only one that wants to see the return of the "iPod"?

I know it breaks consistency between all devices, so it won't happen, but I liked having my videos with my music.
 
arkmannj said:
I really don't want another stand-alone app.

It reminds me of Facebook seporating Messenger... it annoys the heck out of me.
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Maybe I'm just being too ambitious, but if Apple were to devise a new concept of app "splitting" without making it too complicated for the average user, both developers like Facebook and the user would be happier.

Similar to how you can add a specific website Safari shortcut as its own homescreen icon, create a new "add to home screen" setting in places like Music.app which would let the user essentially place a shortcut to the iTunes Radio section of the app on their home screen.

Now the user gets to pick whether they want one app/icon, or two, eliminating the need for the developer to force which direction all users must take.
 
I hope not. This would be a disaster for iTunes Radio adoption
 
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djtech42 said:
But it makes sense to have it in the music app... I don't want yet another icon on my home screen. I like having it in the music app.
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Agreed. If Apple wants iTunes Radio to be more successful, they should make iTunes available to everyone via the web.
 
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