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Apple Music Now Available on Amazon Fire TV
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Use your head. You surely understood the point is that Android phones are the competitor to Apple’s revenue generator, the iPhone, not Android tv boxes.
I think Amazon and Apple can coexist peacefully. I have a HomePod for playing my Apple music. I have Echo Dots to control smart lighting (because not only are there more options, but more affordable options). I have Apple TV 4K so I can watch my iTunes library and Amazon Prime. I live comfortably in both their universes.
I think that’s what we’re seeing here. Amazon and Apple rarely overlap. Their common competitor is Google. Both benefit from working together against Google.
Spotify is available via airplay. Apple has no obligation to cater to 3rd party services
Also, Apple sure has a ton of reason to natively support Spotify on the HomePod - a company that is currently suing them and has bashed them for years...
You can use your smart lights with apple homekit. There's a program called homebridge that makes it work. A pain to setup though. I have my non homekit smart switches and my non homekit nest products all working inside apple homekit. You do have to have it installed on a computer that's on 24/7. Lots of people put it on a cheap raspberry pi. I'm using it on my mac mini that's on 24/7.
10 years and that’s all they got you? LMAO. Guess it wasn’t a Felicity Huffman school.
NOPE!
Unless something changed in the last 10 minutes or so, you cannot.
Not through Alexa voice command.
works for me. You can set apple music as the default music service for alexa. So when you ask to play a song it goes to apple music.
There's also been an apple music skill out that also works. With that you have to specify apple music in your request.
And yet it’s STILL not available in the UK on any Amazon device.....
But it isn't available natively. Apple has no obligation to allow third party services, yes, however it is very clear that they deliberately lack support for services that compete with their own.
I was stating that it's quite hypocritical that they expand their services to other third party platforms, while disallowing third party platforms on their native hardware.
How about actually make Apple Music work better on Echo before expanding it? It doesn't work well at all. Stops in the middle of songs, doesn't support playlists, and some people can't get it to work at all. Certainly does not work as well as Amazon Music does.
I need it to work well because I don't want a separate service for Echo and another for my Apple Watch. Either that or let Amazon Music support offline playback on the Apple Watch!
I need it to work well because I don't want a separate service for Echo and another for my Apple Watch. Either that or let Amazon Music support offline playback on the Apple Watch!
Wish they made an app. This more or less let’s you pull music via Alexa with voice commands. Is there a command to play your library in shuffle mode?
Not a fan of memorizing voice commands from any company. If Apple Music is my only default, why do I have to say Apple Music at the end of each command. Seems like you would only need to do that on none defaulted devices.
Not a fan of memorizing voice commands from any company. If Apple Music is my only default, why do I have to say Apple Music at the end of each command. Seems like you would only need to do that on none defaulted devices.
I get that you're a fan, but I doubt Amazon could make something as efficient and compact as AirPods. Samsung barely can.
Well after 3-4 tries Alexa seems to understand to play songs and its in shuffle mode. I just say play songs on Apple Music and it calls it my own station for some reason. I wonder if shuffling is something I enabled in AM app and Alexa is just replicating it...