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Apple Launches New 'Snapshot' Web Page: 'Your Favorites, At a Glance'

turbineseaplane said:
I can't believe we are comparing:

"the iPod & iPhone"

with

"a webpage to learn about celebrities and where their stuff on Apple Services is"
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Taking my comment out of context, as usual.
The point is, the unilateral statement of “nobody asked for this” is just plain BS, Apple has more than a billion customers who all have different needs.
Some Apple offerings might not be for me but serve other people’s needs, what’s so hard to understand about this.
We’re in the mid 2020s, Apple is not a HW focused only company anymore
 
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jz0309 said:
Taking my comment out of context, as usual.
The point is, the unilateral statement of “nobody asked for this” is just plain BS, Apple has more than a billion customers who all have different needs.
Some Apple offerings might not be for me but serve other people’s needs, what’s so hard to understand about this.
We’re in the mid 2020s, Apple is not a HW focused only company anymore
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They aren't a services focussed one either. Apple's problem is they think this kind of nonsense is what people want from services.

Apple TV+ is a bit of a bomb, Apple Music growth has flatlined at about 150 million subscribers behind Spotify and was last seen losing share in Apple's biggest market but yeah wait until that Cate Blanchett page goes live..

They should get way more heat for the state of their services, if it wasn't for the Google cash and icloud their services revenue would be much smaller.
 
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jz0309 said:
“Nobody asks for” - you really believe that?
Did anybody ask for an iPod, an iPhone?

The few news sites that I visit all have some section where “celebrities” or “influencers” are featured with some whatever, it seems to be a trend and it appears to me that Apple is following that trend.
Again, I don’t care about this but certainly some people do…
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lol effing YES to BOTH.
People asked for the storage capacity of the Creative Jukebox in the form factor of the Diamond Rio, so Apple gave us the iPod.
People asked for a phone that played music with better access to the web. Apple gave us the iPhone.

What is this revisionist history nonsense argument?

PS. NO ONE but their publicists are asking for a new way to track celebrities. We already have social media for that, and frankly wish we didn’t.
 
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MacRumors said:
A tipster alerted us to the page's existence today, and we can confirm that snapshot.apple.com is a new address. Unfortunately, the page currently has a very basic design, with no search functionality. Apple has yet to officially announce the page, and it is unclear how or where the company plans to promote it.
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And yet the headline and story both use the word "launch" to describe the site. I mean, sure, I guess technically since the site is live, it's "launched," but words have connotations beyond their denotations and it's weird to use "launch" -- with all its attendant implications -- for something that Apple hasn't announced.
 
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wow, so much criticism for an artist promo page.

Took someone at apple probably a few hours to make.

Didn't cost any time on design, development, or testing.

If Apple only stuck to "innovating" :rolleyes:, or whatever else some people here consider "important stuff" (?), they would have been the HP of the last decade.

Fair criticism is fine, but all this serial, compulsive complaining about every trivial thing Apple does, from people who have never run a multi-trillion dollar company, just makes you look ridiculous.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple today launched a new page that highlights content from popular music artists, actors, and athletes across three of its biggest services.

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The new "Snapshot on Apple" page has a scrolling carousel of celebrities, including Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Ariana Grande, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Brie Larson, Shohei Ohtani, Lionel Messi, Stephen Curry, Serena Williams, and many others. There are also pages for the bands Coldplay and BTS.

Each page includes some basic details about the person or band, and showcases their related content across the Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Podcasts apps. For example, Billie Eilish's page highlights her songs in Apple Music, her Apple TV+ documentary from 2021, and her appearances on a variety of podcasts.

"Your favorites, at a glance," the page says. "Discover more about the artists, actors, and athletes you love across Apple."

A tipster alerted us to the page's existence today, and we can confirm that snapshot.apple.com is a new address. Unfortunately, the page currently has a very basic design, with no search functionality. Apple has yet to officially announce the page, and it is unclear how or where the company plans to promote it.

Article Link: Apple Launches New 'Snapshot' Web Page: 'Your Favorites, At a Glance'
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Any word on when the Apple Music Mac app will show song queue and history when playing a station? Or will sync playback across devices ala Spotify Connect? So many half-finished products and services that feel more important than this.
 
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TechWhisperer said:
Apple keeps making services nobody asks for just to keep you trapped in their ecosystem. Look at their track record, they hype up features that barely anyone ends up using. Remember those awkward "Slofies"? Apple acted like slow-motion selfies would change our lives, but they disappeared because literally nobody needed them.
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Slofies was just a tongue-in-cheek name for promoting the introduction of the slomo feature for the front facing camera. And you still remember it. So it did work quite well, don’t you think?

And it hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s still there.
 
lotones said:
Took someone at apple probably a few hours to make.

Didn't cost any time on design, development, or testing.
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You just said it took a few hours and then immediately said it didn’t cost any time
😵‍💫

Also, I’d wager it took more than a few hours….
Everything at Apple takes longer than one would think.
 
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Why do so many big tech companies think emulating People Magazine and other grocery store magazines is innovative, advanced, contributing, needed, savvy, etc? The Web was in part all about independent media, DIY, p2p culture... now big corps have made the Internet more like what was so bad about lowest common denominator commercial culture.

What happened to Think Different from the normal basic culture?
 
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Listing Taylor Swift after belly eyelash is disrespectful. belly looks like she shops at the goodwill that Shaq donates to
 
iToph said:
There still are Apple Music users??? 😆 don’t sink so
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People that value audio quality and curating their own libraries and playlists love Apple Music. The app is far better designed than Spotify, a jumbled impaired mess with podcasts and audiobooks thrown into it. Terrible library management. Terrible audio quality AND it's more expensive than Apple Music.
 
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Gengar said:
People that value audio quality and curating their own libraries and playlists love Apple Music. The app is far better designed than Spotify, a jumbled impaired mess with podcasts and audiobooks thrown into it. Terrible library management. Terrible audio quality AND it's more expensive than Apple Music.
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"their own libraries"

hmm...
 
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Apple Celebrity Bus Simulator 2025

If you miss the celebrity you were thinking about clicking, don’t worry, they’ll come around again in a little while!
 
Oh good, I needed to learn more about popular people I don't care about. Maybe instead of learning more about Swift or Lamar, Apple could highlight lesser known artists who could use a notoriety boost?
 
Apple: Publishes a single simple page on their website

MR: Freaks out and declares the end of the company

MacRumors, I hope you never change.

Hey, remember when Apple under Steve Jobs released a whole product designed around celebrity branding?

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At first I thought this would be tapping into what Apple knows about TV, movies and music I watch and listen to. That could be kind of vaguely interesting, I guess?

But, no, it seems to be just some really vague general cloud of artists. Seriously useless, from what I can tell.
 
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