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.
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Apple Music Now Has Over 10 Million Subscribers After Just 6 Months
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ya it has. but there still issues with it replacing album art at times..
you reckon ? It's still an Apple device though...
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Wait, so MacRumors is comparing Apple Music's subscribers to Spotify's "paying" subscribers? I shouldn't have expected better.
"some work" to do is an understatement. It sucks, and Spotify blows it away. Expand on "Integration". My BMW works perfectly with Spotify on my iPhone, but not Apple Music. Do you even know what you're talking about?
"some work" to do is an understatement. It sucks, and Spotify blows it away. Expand on "Integration". My BMW works perfectly with Spotify on my iPhone, but not Apple Music. Do you even know what you're talking about?
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.
This is not news. Anyone that knows anything knows that Apple's a mass market consumer electronics company that specializes in a high volume mass produced product. They would also know Apple specializes in tooting it's own horn.
I just love all the negative comments here. Good to know that MR doesn't make up the majority of Apple's customers...or the ones that really matter. Apple certainly didn't reach 10million users by most people here. Nice to know MR's members have little to zero control on the matter. For the rest of us that don't necessarily have a problem with everything Apple does.....
That's some good numbers right there.
I've decided to stay with Deezer but it was a very close call and I'm sure Apple Music will get better and better. Key differences for me were.
1 - I really like the Deezer flow function (makes great choices)
2 - FLAC files (yes I know)
3 - Free football (soccer) commentary
4 - Really like the Deezer curated playlists
5 - I can copy a playlist into iTunes for girlfriends Nano
I'll check out Apple Music again in a few months.
I've decided to stay with Deezer but it was a very close call and I'm sure Apple Music will get better and better. Key differences for me were.
1 - I really like the Deezer flow function (makes great choices)
2 - FLAC files (yes I know)
3 - Free football (soccer) commentary
4 - Really like the Deezer curated playlists
5 - I can copy a playlist into iTunes for girlfriends Nano
I'll check out Apple Music again in a few months.
If they reduced the price by 50% i might think about subscribing. They also need to fix the broken software
Does anyone else have a problem with the Apple Music app and bluetooth headphones? My headphones disconnect sometimes when I try to move through songs (forwards or backwards).
Overall I like Apple Music but I would like for them to tighten up the app. It seems bloated or buggy to me.
Overall I like Apple Music but I would like for them to tighten up the app. It seems bloated or buggy to me.
Half of them don't even know they're subscribed.
Apple Music got me to sign up for Spotify for three months. Doubt I will keep it running after three months, but Spotify UI is so much better than Apple Music .
Seriously? 'Add to up next' makes perfect sense and 'replace queue' confuses you? Okay, faced with that kind of stonewalling I'll call it an evening.
If they don't then that's their own fault, considering that Apple sends out reminder emails every month.
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.
Spotify "fastest ever growth". No duh. If it were even a fraction of a percent faster it would be fastest ever. No way they got 10mm more subscribers.
The fact that Apple went from 0 to half Spotify's paying base in 6 months is crazy impressive. It's crazy to think what those numbers would have been like if it had actually worked well right out of the gate. That said, that's the past. Apple Music is default installed in every iPhone and iPad. If Apple can fix the OS X experience, they'll pass up Spotify in paid subs in a year.
The fact that Apple went from 0 to half Spotify's paying base in 6 months is crazy impressive. It's crazy to think what those numbers would have been like if it had actually worked well right out of the gate. That said, that's the past. Apple Music is default installed in every iPhone and iPad. If Apple can fix the OS X experience, they'll pass up Spotify in paid subs in a year.
It actually is quite different, but you have it backwards, if you think anyone would swap from Spotify to Apple Music. Spotify is far superior to Apple Music.
Whereas Apple is screwing around with Beats One and trying to force people to conform and all listen to the same songs - that is, taking us back to the days of radio - Spotify is bringing us the future with Spotify Discover. They have algorithms that are able to pull crazy obscure stuff out of their collection that is perfectly tailored for you, with uncanny accuracy.
Plus the synchronized lyrics built into Spotify on the desktop are amazing. I hope they bring it to mobile eventually.
Omg Can you and almost EVERYBODY else get their head out of their ***** and *realize* Apple Music is NOT marketing itself to Spotify users? Get off that already. Geezus.
Earth to whoever is honestly *listening*. STREAMING IS NEW TO NEARLY THE ENTIRE PLANET FOR GOD SAKE!!!!!!!!!!
I'd guess that ONLY 100 million people GLOBALLY PAY for music streaming of some kind - maybe more but it's still such a TINY niche that Apple itself by default will help the whole industry to GROW.
Please people try your hardest to STOP the SPOTIFY vs APPLE MUSIC talk. It's so tired already.
There are tons of fish in the sea!
While I agree with much of what you are saying, I'm not sure the march of technological progress is stoppable.
Admittedly, the materialistic merry-go-round most of us seem to willingly go along with (to varying degrees) is a double-edged sword that on the one hand keeps the economy churning, people employed, the Fed collecting revenue, and stock holders happy while at the same time keeping most of us in the relative poorhouse.
In a much wider picture however, stagnation is an unnatural state that will doom us as a species, while progress (on all levels) will allow us to thrive.
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Yeah, same here. Have zero plans to ever switch from Spotify. I would have considered it if Beats was not an acquisition. I don't support rap, rappers or any group that incites race or hate to achieve "success".
Apple lost me as a music customer because of that acquisition. And I'm quite aware that they don't care. This is a mutual feeling.
For me too.
I found some rare gems on it, and now I can play these whenever I want. Also, I listen to at least one new album per week so I find it cheap.
People here complaining about it talk like they spend their entire day in Apple Music.
I don't really care much for Apple Music, will never use it.
But there's one thing about it that irritates the hell out of me.
That is the fact it's integrated into the standard music app on iOS, and into the music library of iTunes.
I do not want this rubbish compromising my user experience.
I will never use paid streaming services, and seeing the garbage interface elements in spots where I can accidentally activate them is extremely frustrating.
The ideal scenario would be to have it as a seperate app, so those that don't want anything to do with it don't have to see it, and don't have to go searching for ways to disable it.
But there's one thing about it that irritates the hell out of me.
That is the fact it's integrated into the standard music app on iOS, and into the music library of iTunes.
I do not want this rubbish compromising my user experience.
I will never use paid streaming services, and seeing the garbage interface elements in spots where I can accidentally activate them is extremely frustrating.
The ideal scenario would be to have it as a seperate app, so those that don't want anything to do with it don't have to see it, and don't have to go searching for ways to disable it.
Yes, besides a couple annoying glitches it's pretty solid and Siri integration is priceless when you need it like in the car.