Spotify blows Apple Music out of the water, horrible over-complicated and slow UI on desktop and mobile. Horribly static homepage and crap playlists. I love you, Apple, but Apple Music blows as it is now.
Can anyone tell me if it has substantially improved since it launched ?
Haven't tried it since the free trial.
If Spotify was part of default music app, it would have 100 million users by now.
I had Spotify for about a year or two and then Apple Music launched. Signed up for the trial and didn't use either service much. Decided to keep Apple Music and ditch Spotify for a couple of reasons.
Apple has some work to do on the service/interface for sure but it's a decent start and I am happy with it. I listen to music every so often but not enough to be hard core. I also enjoy having any song I want at my finger tips at any time. I also was never big on music purchasing either. Just casual all around.
- I grew very tired of the black and green color scheme.
- Being able to say "Hey Siri - play whatever song I want/album/genre" is excellent!
- Integration
I saw a tweet from someone who has contacts in the business and said Apple Music was developed by the Beats team in LA not in Cupertino. On John Gruber's most recent podcast he relayed a rumor he heard about a meeting where Jimmy Iovine argued that music shouldn't be an app, it should just appear whenever you turn on your phone. Purchasing Beats was a mistake IMO. Just because Jimmy Iovine is a big shot in the music industry doesn't mean he's the right person to create a streaming music service. I agree with Gruber. Last years WWDC was Apple's worst keynote in a long time all because of the stupid 40 minute Apple Music section. It certainly didn't deserve the "one more thing" tag.Spotify blows Apple Music out of the water, horrible over-complicated and slow UI on desktop and mobile. Horribly static homepage and crap playlists. I love you, Apple, but Apple Music blows as it is now.
I think you're confusing play next with add to up next. I haven't experienced any of the above.
Apple Music has: Play Next, Add to Up Next. This is simpler and makes more sense to me. I don't even know what "replace queue" means.
Half of them don't even know they're subscribed.
Subscribers means paid. That means 10 million are paying for Apple Music up from 6.5 in October. And 20 million pay for Spotify. Whatever your thoughts that's a very solid accomplishment for only being around for half a year. At this rate they'll surpass Spotify before the end of this year. It's only gonna get better. Apple Music was very glitchy in the beginning and while not perfect it's much better now. Not to mention Spotify isn't exactly easy to use either. Offering all this to users is very complex for any company to do. Both services have their strengths and weaknesses.Just because they made 10 million users doesn't mean it's any good. That's just the power of default music app, which the first thing any iOS user will see is "Try Apple Music for free".
If Spotify was part of default music app, it would have 100 million users by now.
I think it is doubtful that Apple Music will ever top Spotify. It just isn't different enough to warrant people switching to it (that is where the users will come from).
I think it is doubtful that Apple Music will ever top Spotify. It just isn't different enough to warrant people switching to it (that is where the users will come from).
While I agree with much of what you are saying, I'm not sure the march of technological progress is stoppable.Do you want efficiency? get a cassette tape and a walkman. Take the tape, drop it in and that is it. Apple made technology clumsy and useless. I mean, when you start to add features not because they are needed but because you need to keep your employees working and show some sort of progress for the monthly board meeting....
I have this predictions that this year tech companies like Apple will start to lose value because people are just fine with what they have. Technology need to evolve based on needs and for the last 3 years we have been getting features tat are just leisure. I mean, now days is a matter of chose and taste, no need.
I have a 42: Samsung HD TV, I do not need a 4K, why? if cable companies still offering a super compress bad resolution HD signal, they are the ones who need to upgrade, not me. My iPhone 5 runs just fine, no need for a new one. The computer I am typing is a 2008 Mac pro with the 30" Apple cinema display, and guess what? I am a manager ata multi channel network. There is no need for a new mac pro unless you are into 3D or who knows what.
So, in the big picture there is no need for new technology at least in the direction things are taking.
Actually, in December I noticed something very bad, I was at Disney and I took the ride of Tomorrowland, and all the things expose to give you a look into the future were just black. I went to Epcot and the same things I saw early 90's. I saw the CES reviews... is like Hollywood... re dos, re makes. That is a convention that you need to go each 10 years and all what they are showing was showed back at Sigraph in 2007.
Any way... my worry is that we may have some sort of crisis and that will affect the economy badly in a few months, usually by Summer you will see some red alarms going off.
I think I'll just stick with my diet Pepsi.
I still have an untouched 3 month trial. It's going to stay that way for a very long time.
For me too.Although its far from perfect, I'm enjoying Apple Music. No Spotify here, I guess ignorance is bliss.
Yes, besides a couple annoying glitches it's pretty solid and Siri integration is priceless when you need it like in the car.Can anyone tell me if it has substantially improved since it launched ?
Haven't tried it since the free trial.