Totally within Apple's right to do, but goes against their UX philosophy. Honestly, anything that makes Spotify harder to use is a good thing.
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Apple Music is Sometimes Replacing Other Apps in the Dock When Installed From App Store [Updated]
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Tim Sweeney is acting like a conspiracy theorist and crackpot. He’s not alone. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey also play this crackpot game to manipulate weak minded people who are just looking for a reason to jump up and down like sheep.
Billionaires telling people to jump up and down like sheep and they obey. Hahahahahahaa
People who believe in Musk and Sweeney
Billionaires telling people to jump up and down like sheep and they obey. Hahahahahahaa
People who believe in Musk and Sweeney
It’s not because you cancelled, I’ve never subscribed to Apple Music and it turns itself back on all the time. It’s usually after a reboot but I’m pretty sure it’s been doing it even without that just recently. I guess Apple are really desperate to increase subscriptions.
Considering Apple Music app was the default music app since the original iPhone OS 1.0 days, my guess is that someone did not cleared the “showOnDock=true” flag from the install manifest file.
But if Tim Whiney is saying this is rigged, then I bet it is Apple being bad. Bad Apple ?
But if Tim Whiney is saying this is rigged, then I bet it is Apple being bad. Bad Apple ?
Apple Music could be the best streaming app , unfortunately it’s so buggy….recently again it replaced a lot of my songs taken from albums in playlists by other versions from compilations or even different version of the songs….I’d like to use it but each time I try it makes me mad .
Good one Apple, not surprising considering Music's performance, seems like you are worsening all your stock apps in line, god bless consistency!
Ok? As explained in the story, there's no conspiracy here. I know you're talking about iOS and the article is referring to macOS, but it's the same principle. Do you honestly think Apple is purposely trying to move Spotify to try to hide it from you, as if you're just going to magically forget it exists if it gets bumped to a different page on your home screen? LOL!
Exactly. The whole "logic" of these conspiracy theories is so silly.
bring on the antitrust legislation. regulate apple.
iTunes used to be so simple. Before it became a revenue stream for them. Fast forward to now where they have to resort to pathetic bugs to get more people to sign up to another pay-walled garden.
It's interesting how there's apparently an undocumented API call that lets non-stock apps insert themselves onto the dock. How the Apple Music app came to use that API, even if unintentional, strikes me as unusual. Why would there even be such logic in the app?
can confirm yesterday it kicked my Spotify off my bottom dock into a random page lol rather rude
I have two Apple IDs (US & Germany) I already cannot use it for the fact that every time I switch Apple ID for Media, it would wipe my whole offline library. So dumb
Just tested it myself. My dock is:
Phone app
Messages app
Gmail app
Safari
Deleted and reinstalled Apple Music. After installing Apple Music, Safari was kicked out of the dock into the first page of the Home Screen, Apple Music placed itself on the 3rd spot of the dock and pushed the GMail app to the 4th spot.
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Phone app
Messages app
Gmail app
Safari
Deleted and reinstalled Apple Music. After installing Apple Music, Safari was kicked out of the dock into the first page of the Home Screen, Apple Music placed itself on the 3rd spot of the dock and pushed the GMail app to the 4th spot.
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Tim Sweeney is Sometimes Replacing Other Commentators in Articles When There is Any Mention of App Store
Considering how quick the customers of that fruit flavoured company come to defend it anytime something like this happens, I gotta say - your oral footwear polishing comment is just a tad ironic.
I don’t get this. There is a huge difference between saying you don’t like a product because it does not do X and trying to force a product to do X.
You don’t see Apple customers demanding more control over android by Google, and yet android customers regularly demand Apple give up control.
This would straight up be classed as breaking competition laws. It would directly lead to heavy fines. They better fix it. I’ve been using Deezer and have found it’s Flow feature to be pretty good, but also it’s sound in HQ better then Apples lossless quality. Not really committed to any app, had Spotify too.
How? There is no evidence of this behavior on android. It only effects a small group of smartphone users.
Competitors could complain about it and Apple would be taken to court and heavily fined, Microsoft was very nearly ripped apart and was fined heavily by the EU for making I.E. the default browser when you installed Windows, and it didn’t offer any other options. So yeah Apples music app removing its competitors apps from the dock would be an instant breach of competition law.
But as it seems like a bug Apple will have to fix it soon.
This is pretty clearly a bug, it's a noteworthy and embarrassingly thoughtless one, but anyone thinking this is nefarious is kidding themselves.