Then what does this new, extra subscription service offer over the basic plan?You are mistaken:
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Then what does this new, extra subscription service offer over the basic plan?You are mistaken:
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Apples and horseshoes. Satellite radio audio quality is absolutely atrocious with crazy limited bandwidth. And you have no control over what you are listening to outside the century-old concept of stations. I'm not saying you're an idiot for enjoying Sirius — if it works for you it works for you — but these aren't remotely comparable things.Wow, much unleash! I guess I’ll stick to my $70/year subscription to SiriusXM then.
World domination whilst letting us eat cake, I suppose.But… why?
Literally nothing. It’s not an add-on, it’s a smaller plan than the standard with fewer features for people who are happy to only use Siri to access Apple Music.Then what does this new, extra subscription service offer over the basic plan?
Should have been free! And yes, Siri is really not as powerful as the other voice assistants out there.Siri is absolutely awful and this should’ve been priced at 99 cents.
Yeah, I thought of that was what they mean when I first read “Voice Plan”. But after reading it, what a f-up name. Sorry, that feature to be sold separately is stupid. They should just include it with subscription to Apple Music.They managed to give it an interesting name, though.
I saw it and thought "Oh, is Apple getting into the phone plan business now?" I certainly wouldn't mind switching to an Apple cellular plan that's only $5/month.
Yeah, my household never got used to using Siri. About the only time we use it is when we goof around. Other than that, nope. We even rarely use voice dictation, but we do once in a while when we can’t input by hand but Siri often gets the message wrong and we just don’t bother sending the message until we are actually able to interact by hand.I only used Siri ten years ago frequently, now I barely use it lolol
Ah I see. That begins to make a little more sense.Literally nothing. It’s not an add-on, it’s a smaller plan than the standard with fewer features for people who are happy to only use Siri to access Apple Music.
Basically if all someone wants to do is play music over their HomePod, this is the plan for them.
This Voice Plan is just a watered-down Apple Music at half price.Ah I see. That begins to make a little more sense.
But…does that mean currently you can’t play your own music over HomePod using Siri voice? I don’t have a HomePod so I don’t know.
I see. This is a very helpful explanation. Thank you!This Voice Plan is just a watered-down Apple Music at half price.
You can already use Siri to control your Apple Music OR you can search with the Music App. With Voice you basically ONLY control via voice but do get to FF or RW a track or Like a track via a pop-up app screen.
currently I use Spotify on Mac (free) and Pandora on iPhone or Apple TV (free) and don’t really get much control. And I would have limited skips on Pandora.
With the plan I get the entire catalog from Apple Music. Can choose exactly what song I want. And skip unlimited tracks if I wanted. I’ve thought about getting a HomePod mini for thread support for Homekit devices. So this could get me to try Apple Music at a decent price point. I can still use Pandora on the HomePod Mini natively or even use Spotify via AirPlay basing it off my iPhone.
Also you can use Apple Music on other streaming smart speakers BUT you CANNOT use Voice plan on Non-Apple devices. You can use Voice on ANY (Siri-enabled) Apple device.
You cannot navigate the catalog. All this plan does is allow you to ask Siri to play music from the Apple Music catalog.I see. This is a very helpful explanation. Thank you!
With a voice-only UI, how does one navigate the catalog? I guess you don’t? I guess you must know what song or album you want and request it to play. No browsing then, I suppose. That’s a bit bizarre….