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Any one else feels Apple's GUI lately has been extremely awkward and clunky?

Their apps are really unintuitive to use like iTunes store and others. Something you could not say back when OS X, the original iTunes, and the iLife suite was released.
 
Yeah great meanwhile their computers sit stagnant dwelling on past glory. Over at Samsung they are creating folding phones and iris scanners while this very moment at Apple Tim and crew are talking about Snoopy watch bands, font changes and releasing a iPhone with with multiple speakers... Mentioning the Mac mini or Mac Pro over at Apple headquarters is not allowed....

Samsung is talking about things publicly (just like Google), most gimmicks are not commercial, to boost stock, while Apple develops most of its things it private from the limelight, that's all you say about these things.

Funny how most of the things Samsung and Google has actually released are half baked; you want Apple to do that?
 
Any one else feels Apple's GUI lately has been extremely awkward and clunky?

Their apps are really unintuitive to use like iTunes store and others. Something you could not say back when OS X, the original iTunes, and the iLife suite was released.

Bon Iver is not a fan of Music.

http://pitchfork.com/news/66514-bon-iver-calls-apple-music-literally-a-horrid-platform/

apple went from being innovative, plug + play … the best way to experience music and file management to literally a horrid platform ….

— blobtower (@blobtower) July 1, 2016
they let the commercialization of apple music get in the way of making a product easy, simple, and beautiful to use. #neversyncagain

— blobtower (@blobtower) July 1, 2016

Guy likes to say "literally" apparently.

Anyways I don't think iTunes has ever been user-friendly. Never in all the years I've been using it has it been user-friendly, and yes this includes back when Jobs was at the helm. The problem with it is they've always pushed too much functionality into it. macOS iTunes needs to be split into separate apps (including, yes, Apple Music by itself). For some reason iTunes is also how we interact with our devices when plugged in? It's just too much. Apple Music is not terrible but again it could stand to be streamlined some more.

I also think Spotify only just recently got a usable UI, and it's still not much better than Apple Music if at all.
 



Today marks the one year anniversary of Apple Music, which launched in 110 countries on June 30, 2015. The streaming music service was initially limited to the Mac and iOS devices, and it has since expanded to Apple TV and Android.

Apple's streaming music service, an evolution of the Beats Music service it acquired in 2014, has steadily gained listeners over the past twelve months, reaching over 15 million paying subscribers as of WWDC 2016 earlier this month.

apple_music_adele_desktop.jpg

Spotify still remains the world's most popular streaming music service, with roughly twice as many paying subscribers as Apple Music, but the Swedish rival has been available in Europe for nearly eight years and in the U.S. since 2011.

Assuming that Apple Music maintains its current pace of growth, it is reasonable to assume that it will eventually eclipse Spotify as the top streaming service worldwide, with Apple Music benefiting greatly from its prominent placement within a default app on iOS and a lengthy three-month free trial to get users hooked on the service.


Apple Music has received its share of criticism since launch, partly due to somewhat confusing layouts that can make it difficult to find content and easily manage downloaded or owned content versus streamed content. Apple's "Connect" social feature intended to allow artists to share content with fans also failed to take hold, with many quickly drawing comparisons to the ill-fated "Ping" social network that debuted as part of iTunes in 2010 but was officially canceled just two years later.

With iOS 10, Apple is undertaking a reinvention of the Apple Music experience on its mobile platform, completely revamping the app with new organization and a new design. The new design in particular has been controversial, with bold fonts standing in stark contrast to most of the rest of the operating system. But the new layout makes for a much more logical organization of content and features, with downloaded music receiving its own section and Connect receiving much less prominent placement.

Apple is also pushing forward its relationships with artists for Apple Music, working hard to secure exclusive content as it seeks to follow the model of "MTV in its Eighties and Nineties heyday" in becoming the go-to place for artists and content.

Apple Music is clearly still in its early days, with Apple still evolving its integration of the Beats Music team and their streaming service into iTunes and the stock Apple user experience across all platforms. But with strong subscriber growth and industry trends pointing toward a continued shift toward streaming services, it's clear this is where Apple's content future lies, whether it be the current music service or future video services.

Article Link: Apple Music Turns One Year Old With 15 Million Subscribers on Board and a Redesign on the Way
[doublepost=1467410753][/doublepost]The biggest issue with me is that Apple Music in iOS 10 doesn't have all the albums by artists listed when you go to them. Prime example is Gucci Mane. This dude has tons of albums/mixtapes in iOS 9. It literally lags my iPad Air 2 while scrolling through them. iOS 10 has just a sprinkling of these. I cannot even search for the specific albums in iOS 10, it says not found. However, if I add them to my library in iTunes or in iOS 9 they show up in Apple Music in iOS 10. Hopefully a beta issue? But I thought everything would draw from the same library? Also, what's up with the tiny videos??
 



Today marks the one year anniversary of Apple Music, which launched in 110 countries on June 30, 2015. The streaming music service was initially limited to the Mac and iOS devices, and it has since expanded to Apple TV and Android.

Apple's streaming music service, an evolution of the Beats Music service it acquired in 2014, has steadily gained listeners over the past twelve months, reaching over 15 million paying subscribers as of WWDC 2016 earlier this month.

apple_music_adele_desktop.jpg

Spotify still remains the world's most popular streaming music service, with roughly twice as many paying subscribers as Apple Music, but the Swedish rival has been available in Europe for nearly eight years and in the U.S. since 2011.

Assuming that Apple Music maintains its current pace of growth, it is reasonable to assume that it will eventually eclipse Spotify as the top streaming service worldwide, with Apple Music benefiting greatly from its prominent placement within a default app on iOS and a lengthy three-month free trial to get users hooked on the service.


Apple Music has received its share of criticism since launch, partly due to somewhat confusing layouts that can make it difficult to find content and easily manage downloaded or owned content versus streamed content. Apple's "Connect" social feature intended to allow artists to share content with fans also failed to take hold, with many quickly drawing comparisons to the ill-fated "Ping" social network that debuted as part of iTunes in 2010 but was officially canceled just two years later.

With iOS 10, Apple is undertaking a reinvention of the Apple Music experience on its mobile platform, completely revamping the app with new organization and a new design. The new design in particular has been controversial, with bold fonts standing in stark contrast to most of the rest of the operating system. But the new layout makes for a much more logical organization of content and features, with downloaded music receiving its own section and Connect receiving much less prominent placement.

Apple is also pushing forward its relationships with artists for Apple Music, working hard to secure exclusive content as it seeks to follow the model of "MTV in its Eighties and Nineties heyday" in becoming the go-to place for artists and content.

Apple Music is clearly still in its early days, with Apple still evolving its integration of the Beats Music team and their streaming service into iTunes and the stock Apple user experience across all platforms. But with strong subscriber growth and industry trends pointing toward a continued shift toward streaming services, it's clear this is where Apple's content future lies, whether it be the current music service or future video services.

Article Link: Apple Music Turns One Year Old With 15 Million Subscribers on Board and a Redesign on the Way
[doublepost=1467427889][/doublepost]Can someone make a petition on the apple support forums to change that thick ugly font on apple music for iphones!? Its fine on the iPad and apple tv but it looks like they built the app on the ipad and crammed everything into smaller screens (iphones) which looks awful. Im serious about the petition. Someone link me to it so i can go sign it if there's one out there already
 
I hope they make the search engine smarter. For example if you forget to include "the" in the album name apple music won't find what your looking for. Spotify does...
 
Guy likes to say "literally" apparently.

Anyways I don't think iTunes has ever been user-friendly. Never in all the years I've been using it has it been user-friendly, and yes this includes back when Jobs was at the helm. The problem with it is they've always pushed too much functionality into it. macOS iTunes needs to be split into separate apps (including, yes, Apple Music by itself). For some reason iTunes is also how we interact with our devices when plugged in? It's just too much. Apple Music is not terrible but again it could stand to be streamlined some more.

I also think Spotify only just recently got a usable UI, and it's still not much better than Apple Music if at all.

I don't know how long you have been using iTunes, but back in 2001/2 itunes did almost just 4 things:
-rip cds
-store audio files
-create playlists
-listen to internet radio

that worked and was simple enough to use
 
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