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Apple Music, Beats 1, iTunes and App Store Experiencing Issues During VMA Nominee Announcements

bbeagle said:
In the old days, it didn't matter how many people were listening/watching a broadcast, the radio or television station broadcast the SAME signal, and if 100 people or 100,000 people had radios or TVs with antennas, it didn't matter. Now, Apple (or any company) must ramp up their server load to serve more people. I understand for custom web content, but for streaming content, which is the same for everyone, there's got to be a better way.
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Put back up the antenna. Cut the middlemen (Apple included) out... even cut the Internet itself out. Or insist on streaming everything and trust that the middlemen can deliver (and not exploit the dependency on them). Audio & Video signals are still buzzing around through the air for free if we want to access them. They even work in harsh storms, when broadband is down, whether you have a cell plan or not, etc.
 
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As I work professionally within the IaaS, PaaS and whatnot space, I've coined a new acronym for Apple's cloud services: AaaS (pronounced "ass" or, if you're British, "arse").

Apple As A Service. AaaS.

Apple Music has been a complete pain in the AaaS for me, so to speak. And don't speak to me about the Photos iCloud service. Oh boy.
 
It's 8:03 am here in CA and the App Atore, etc. are still down. Is the result of that North Korean whack job or China hackers because they know Apple is releasing their financials today after the market close? Hah!
 
0815 said:
In my perfect world it would have been great if Google and Apple would have played well together with Apple providing the OS and the hardware and Google providing all the service related things.
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Umm, yeah. The government should nationalize them both and then we can all live in communes and create a socialist paradise. :rolleyes:
 
chukronos said:
Apple music is a dumpster fire. It isn't worth the headache. Spotify works really well, so I am using that most of the time anyway. Oh well. I may revisit once they get everything working properly in a year or so.
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Maybe a dumpster fire that brought in more people than expected.
Apple may have underestimated their Apple Music footprint, similar to what happen to the streaming of the 2014 WWDC. It was nightmare to connect, and many of us ended up listening to the Chinese audio.

After this problem, some people will get fired, others hired, and soon enough the service will be capable of handling the higher demand.
 
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When you launch something of this scale, there are bound to be problems but Apple chose the wrong slogan to launch Beats 1 with. "Always On" is a claim that is only embarrassing Apple.
 
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ipedro said:
When you launch something of this scale, there are bound to be problems but Apple chose the wrong slogan to launch Beats 1 with. "Always On" is a claim that is only embarrassing Apple.
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Apart from curated playlists and the radio stations, everything else (individual album and track streaming, offline mode) feels very much like an afterthought. A kludge. Trying to cram something like Spotify into iTunes, but as iTunes has always been a storefront tacked onto a music "mis"-management system, it works very differently to something that was designed right from the start to be a streaming service. Apple Music on the whole thing doesn't feel as integrated or as well thought out as it should be.

When - I repeat when - I can access Apple Music, I've found that Apple Music tends to split entire albums, principally compilations, into other albums linking to the same artist; which is not what I was expecting nor wanted. It does not integrate purchased music into Apple Music albums very well at all. If you've bought a few tracks from an album, then use Apple Music to add the rest of the tracks - the only way I can get the whole album to appear together is if delete my own music. iTunes does not recognise individual tracks that forms part of an album.

But the real kick to the teeth is Apple's inability to scale their services in a timely manner. They can do it. They've got the resources and the moolah, but apparently not the skills.
 
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This is why I say renting music is a bad idea. Not only do you have to put up with artists pulling their music or outright not being on the service, you have to deal with outages. I hope no one was planning to throw a party using Apple Music.
 
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Oh Apple, why have you forsaken me?

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Seriously been trying to log on to App Store since half an hour and was wondering if something is wrong with my iPhone.
 
movielad said:
Apple Music has been a complete pain in the AaaS for me, so to speak. And don't speak to me about the Photos iCloud service. Oh boy.
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Yup. This past year has been the first time in my 25 years of using macs that I have deliberately avoided installing updates and using specific services because, after giving them a more than fair try, they just don't work as advertised. iCloud music library and iCloud Photo Library being the two worst offenders.
 
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Has Apple ever launched a service or software that hasn't been completely messed up in the last few years? The answer is: no.

iCloud, Maps, Pro Software, iWork, Photos, Apple Music, iCloud Photo Library, iOS 8. It never ends.

This company's focus on the bottom line is hurting them. It's clear they are taking shortcuts to increase profits.
 
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