Apple Music Expands to Android With New App

[goobot]

Wrong.

 

[joueboy]

I know there's a bias on reviews on android app store. But the Apple Music is not a very good experience on iOS either.

 

[Rigby]

It's like you don't know that the media producers and publishers of those movies, tv shows and books require that DRM. Just like they do on every other platform.

Yet strangely enough, Amazon, Google and Microsoft offer apps to play back content from their stores on other platforms, including Apple's. Only Apple doesn't.

 

[Rigby]

You can use them on iTunes for Windows.

True, but who wants to sit in front of a computer to consume movies and books.

 

[nazaar]

F that.... how about you get Sonos working Apple?!

 

[NightFox]

Hmmm, does this mean I'll be able to access my whole iTunes->Apple Music music library from my Philips TV than runs AndroidTV?

 

[malnar]

So, any mention of Eddy Cue's promised 100,000 song limit upgrade? This is literally ALL I need to hear about at this point.

 

[seanrt]

Where is the Apple TV 3 update?

Exactly, they want it in the hands of as many people as possible except for Apple TV 3 users. Still sucks. It is why I canceled my subscription. AirPlay was to flaky with displaying Now Playing on the screen.

 

[hagar]

Good that the Android community can now experience skipping and stuttering when streaming songs. While Apple Music holds a lot of promise, it's still very unstable on OSX and iOS.

 

[navaira]

Two thousand and late, Apple. I'm not buying a subscription to test your beta software. But congratulations on finally getting it out there, I guess.

 

[cdmoore74]

YouTube red with Google music subscription is a much better deal. I'm using it on my iPhone/iPad/Nexus 7/PC so I can't see a Android user getting to excited. At the same price it's no contest.

 

[samcraig]

I could argue that Apple Music isn't the "best" music app/service around. I could also be amused by both iOS and Android users who are so emotionally involved over this.

 

[MrCrowbar]

Err... please fix it on iOS first. Apple Music is terrible and bloated the music app for everyone. Android users will laugh at us once they try out Apple Music on their stuff.

 

[Haynzee]

I've been using the app on a LG G3 and so far so good, no issues at all. It synced all the music I already had on the iPad. I must say though, I think I actually prefer to UI on the Android app to the iPhone. Being an iPhone 5 user mainly, the UI is so cluttered, that little menu on Android is pretty nice.

 

[Piggie]

So does Apple pay Google 15% of all transactions placed via this app on an Android device?

 

[Mike MA]

They could have tried a redesign here to improve the usability, right?

 

[Gasu E.]

It's like giving a glass of ice water to someone in hell.

That would be the most appreciated glass of water ever.

 

[Gasu E.]

Last I knew, Apple forbids apps from being numbered below 1.0 on their App Stores. Interesting that they don't follow their own App Store rules when posting to App Stores run by other companies.

In Googleland, the rule is: you cannot release anything UNLESS it is in perpetual Beta.

 

[BrentD]

4 pages in and nobody's mentioned that horrible Photoshop job on the story graphic?

 

[rdlink]

Exactly, hence time for new laws, because apparently this isn't gonna fix itself unlike with music for whatever reason.
"But wait, that will just help piracy"
Yes really? torrents, private ftps, usenet, etc... it's all still alive and well and filled with whatever I want to watch, listen to, play or otherwise consume next.
Oh and I get the added benefit of getting an actually better product:
torrented movie: put it on my iPhone, iPad, iMac OR any device not blessed by the divine Gods in Cupertino and Hollywood & Co.
Rip BluRays, music CDs, DVDs, record from TV, ...: Do whatever you want with it, just the same as above.
iTunes purchases: DRM → I get no say.

Glassed Silver:mac

I don't disagree with the gist of your point. That the media producers are the main problem.

Unfortunately, the technical reality of video and book data vs. music data is that music was much easier to pirate for most people. Just pop a CD in the tray and rip it, followed by unfettered sharing of relatively small sized files.

But DVDs are much harder to rip successfully for most people. And storing and sharing the files on servers isn't as easy and cheap as music files were. So the video industry is not bleeding as badly as the music industry was when Jobs brought them to the table and made them realize they really had no choice but to open up a fairly frictionless store. And once the iTunes store was the mega giant in the industry they had the leverage to remove DRM from music.

There is too much at stake for the video production industry to give it up as easily as the music industry had to. Everyone in the pipeline is making a boatload of cash, and nobody wants to lose the goose and his golden egg. So they continue to fight tooth and nail to keep us from having even more reasonable DRM restrictions. For instance, I would be happy if I could rent a movie and watch it for more than 24 hours once click play. A week or two would be much more reasonable, IMO.

But I also don't agree with the attitude that the response to that should be piracy. I think that consumers just have to be willing to educate themselves to the market, and walk away when something is unfair purely for the sake of greed.

Then again, maybe wholesale pirating will pressure the industry to be less greedy and more consumer friendly. I just know that I won't participate in that, because it makes me just as scummy as the studios and other video producers who engage in oppressive, shady and deceptive tactics to increase their bottom line.

 

[jonnysods]

Interesting move, I didn't think that Apple would do anything like this?

 

[appledefenceforce]

Interesting I wonder what Taylor thinks

She doesn't use Android she couldn't care less.

 

[FelixDerKater]

I guess this is good timing. The iPhone 6 and now the 6s are the first iPhones that can compete with the Android offerings, so it's fine now to release an Apple app for their platform.

 

[skinned66]

At least Apple used Android's design. Google on the other hand is insistent on shoving material design down our throats. Whether one prefers that to iOS isn't the point. If you're designing an app for iOS it shouldn't look like Android.

I limited myself to just using YouTube and Chrome (workplace security doesn't like Safari) all of this time but since the latest visual update I use Tubex and now I only have Chrome installed.

 

[QuarterSwede]

The reviews are surprisingly decent at this point (3.3 stars). Looks like iTunes Match works with it as well.