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Apple Music Integration Possibly Coming to Google Home Devices [Updated]
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It is a breathe of fresh air for people using Android or own many Google Home speakers. No longer bound for HomePod or Siri.
Apple Music may be soon be available as an option on Google Home devices, according to an image that was shared by MacRumors reader Jason.
We were able to track down the Apple Music listing within the Google Home app for iOS devices, but at the current time, it can't be linked to a Google Home device.
Still, the listing suggests that Apple could soon make Apple Music an available option for Google Assistant-powered playback on Google Home devices, much like it did with the Amazon Echo.
Back in December, Apple Music became available on Amazon's range of Echo speakers, allowing Alexa voice commands to be used to control Apple Music playback.
The Apple Music listing appears to be relatively new, and given that it's not working, it suggests an upcoming feature.
Apple Music expanding to Google Home speakers would make Apple's music service more accessible across all of the most popular smart home speakers that are available at the current time, expanding access far beyond just the HomePod.
Many other music services are available on Google Home, including Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, YouTube Music, and Deezer.
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All i want is for homepod to get spotify integration like come on
Will never happen. It's great and everything, but that's like suicidal moves by Apple. LOL
Youre commenting on an article that says apple music will integrate with google home like come on its totally possible
Sure it is possible. But making AM available to Google Home is about expanding Apple Music so more people (even Android users) may subscribe into Apple Music, which means MORE subscriber for Apple's service.
Now making Spotify available on HomePod (or Siri) meaning Apple gives people more reason to NOT switching to Apple Music.
You must be understand that this move is about killing Spotify and expanding Apple Music, totally not a gesture of goodwill.
What would Apple's motivation be, considering they control and license a competing technology?
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Apple is pretty selective with partners. So when a company screws with Apple (like Spotify charging customers more through Apple's platform, and repeatedly breaking the App Store rules by doing direct payments), it is up to Apple to decide when they need you and want to risk partnering with you again. Pretty simple relationship philosophy.
Now that Apple is a competitor, this will almost certainly never happen.
So this will happen as soon as Spotify writes the code for it, using some publicly available HomePod SDK. They likely won't even get special early access.
Tim probably thinks he pulled a fast one on google.
Great job google, embracing all into your ecosystem. Great torjan horse as many Apple fan boys don’t see the other side.
Maybe they will wake up and notice that Tim is an absolute fool
Great job google, embracing all into your ecosystem. Great torjan horse as many Apple fan boys don’t see the other side.
Maybe they will wake up and notice that Tim is an absolute fool
Next Up, AAPL Music on Roku.
Then, AAPL Video Streaming to ALL commodity third-party OTT set-top boxes.
AAPL doesn't report iPhone Unit Sales anymore, so I expect a Flood of, dare I say, (relatively) INEXPENSIVE new iPhones, in the $600-$700 USD range.
NOT Rocket Science, Cook & Co are fighting for their jobs & their reputations.
If AAPL's stock had NOT rebounded somewhat in Jan, Cook would have be Ousted.
I'm 100% sure he knows he MUST deliver some level of turn-around, & soon.
Buffett won't be bailing out AAPL this time ... & by this I mean, won't be providing that (Blind) Faith Militant confidence that many used in CY18 to justify their own AAPL stock purchases.
Nope, this time Timmy is on his own.
Odds are probably less than 50/50 that he survives the year.
AAPL is going to find out the hard way that it is in-deed a competitive world !
Then, AAPL Video Streaming to ALL commodity third-party OTT set-top boxes.
AAPL doesn't report iPhone Unit Sales anymore, so I expect a Flood of, dare I say, (relatively) INEXPENSIVE new iPhones, in the $600-$700 USD range.
NOT Rocket Science, Cook & Co are fighting for their jobs & their reputations.
If AAPL's stock had NOT rebounded somewhat in Jan, Cook would have be Ousted.
I'm 100% sure he knows he MUST deliver some level of turn-around, & soon.
Buffett won't be bailing out AAPL this time ... & by this I mean, won't be providing that (Blind) Faith Militant confidence that many used in CY18 to justify their own AAPL stock purchases.
Nope, this time Timmy is on his own.
Odds are probably less than 50/50 that he survives the year.
AAPL is going to find out the hard way that it is in-deed a competitive world !
Same here, I prefer Apple Music over Amazon music but have predominantly Alexa and sonos round my home.
Apples and Oranges. Making it easier to use Apple Music at the cost of potential HomePod sales is good for the Services narrative. And they really want to push that narrative.
You don’t need iTunes Match to work on android. You can upload all your music to google play for free and stream it for free from google play music.
Privacy, Apples new marketing quote and Mantra. With apples approach nothing will get smart at any time.
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Even m% realizes it’s not suicidal opening for superior services. It makes your own offerings BETTER.
APPLE has just plain wrong old school thinking.
Letting users set their default apps for everything could increase market share by 5 percent ya guess roughly.
Companies would start running FOR apple as instead opposing it like Netflix and Spotify do wow.
But as a twitter guy said to me, he trust more a billionaire than me poor guy! Haha
I agree, I’m still waiting for Apple Music to be available on amazon devices in the uk, I’m probably never walking away from Apple, the dot 3,s are just a handy cheap solution for me to control smart devices about the house, I’ve got stereo paired homepods in the living room that’s enough for me,
Yep. I’m in the US so I’ll to follow Qobuz, thanks for mentioning it as I was unaware. But the sound quality is sooo much better on Tidal, and Spotify is slightly better than Apple Music. If Apple Music had lossless I would go exclusive immediately. I can even tell on Airpods, Homepod, and while driving. Such a difference. You can really tell if you just listen to a bass melody, high hats, or just the vocalist. This is not an “audiophile” thing...
Not true. None of those 3rd party webplayers can acces iCloud Music Library. Since 35 percent of my music is not on Apple Music this is a big issue only apple can solve.
iCloud Music Library is also the only reason i am not on Spotify
Works for me. I’ll take it. Is this good for apple? I don’t really care to be honest.
It just tells me they won’t be doing smart speakers because there’s nothing in it for them. Amazon hopes to sell stuff. Google gets more of what they make money on with their offerings. Apple? Well they’re a hardware company.
Services is fine and dandy to shift into. Problem is Apple doesn’t do these well, has anything too essential, or have any that make much profit. It’s not Apple Music. It won’t be this video thing.
However they have something already if they want to blow services wide open. License macOS. Don’t want a mini. Don’t want an iMac. Kb sucks on mbp.
It just tells me they won’t be doing smart speakers because there’s nothing in it for them. Amazon hopes to sell stuff. Google gets more of what they make money on with their offerings. Apple? Well they’re a hardware company.
Services is fine and dandy to shift into. Problem is Apple doesn’t do these well, has anything too essential, or have any that make much profit. It’s not Apple Music. It won’t be this video thing.
However they have something already if they want to blow services wide open. License macOS. Don’t want a mini. Don’t want an iMac. Kb sucks on mbp.
I prefer the HomePod to Google’s smart speakers... but Google’s screen-based assistants are probably the best out there now.
I don’t see Apple beating Amazon and Google in the “ambient computing” space in the next 2-3 years. Becoming a stronger service on top of those platforms makes sense.
I don’t see Apple beating Amazon and Google in the “ambient computing” space in the next 2-3 years. Becoming a stronger service on top of those platforms makes sense.
I care less about Apple support for services I no longer use on third party devices (Apple music lost me years ago), but rather support for third party streaming and services on Apple devices. The ability to chrome cast stream things, and default to using google assistant is far more useful than Siri IMO.
Awesome, I was about to remove my iTunes Subscription to get the Google version just for that, right timing I guess, my google home and google home mini will be happy 
I'll decide what I need myself.
I don't want a browser/cloud-first service. I want my Mac to be the master copy with a local application managing my library.
That leaves me with iTunes and Plex. I'm already very much considering switching to Plex, still not entirely set as it's a one way road in terms of easy migration and keeping all play counts intact.
Plex is missing a few things I'd need.
I already have an outdated state of my library in Play Music, but I'm not feeling it at all.
No local desktop application is also the reason why I treat Google Photos' cloud as merely a convenience copy of select photos rather than my whole library. (amongst other reasons like renting storage when I might as well just buy one more HDD when necessary)
I like control and non-recurring fees. My interests are basically completely contrary to those of the big tech companies.
Glassed Silver:mac