This could work, if Siri was usable. But as it stands now, this is 90 million more reasons for Siri to mess things up.
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Apple Music Voice Plan: Everything You Need to Know
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Amazon has free music streaming included in Amazon Prime membership. It also has a pay streaming service with a more expansive library.
And, in addition, they train better their voice recognition system. Win/win.
And people already using Apple Music, like me, who only engages AM via Siri for multiple HomePod use.
I'd much rather pay $5/month than $10/month.
Wait - what? Right there, in the very first sentence of the article, it indicates that this no more than "a new low-price subscription tier for Apple Music." Said another way: if you are a Music subscriber, there is nothing at all to see here. Move along. Continue using Music as you always have.
Regardless, it's all prep for a point in the [very] near future (I'm looking at you, AR/VR) where voice becomes the default (and preferred?) way to interface with your hardware/software. Inevitable.
Aside from CSAM scanning this has to be the most stupidly thought out thing Apple have ever done. The fact they’ve made these things so close together in time suggests the people making the decisions about these things need replacing.
Oh yeah... I still have such a hands-on relationship with my music that I didn't even know to think of that potential. Makes sense/cents. 😜
Apple needs to get back to personifying technology. When I saw that image in the article, I immediately imagined the AirPods peeking out of the case and looking around. Remember the old iMac commercial where it followed the window shopper's movements?
I wouldn’t use Siri even if they paid me. Or Alexa. It’s all over-engineered. I don’t need a computer to tell me when to take a cr@p or “suggest“ music or movies or anything else. It all just gets in the way. Remember how computers on the Boeing 737 Max “suggested” that the pilot go into a steep nose dive? Give humans control of their machines.
If Siri is telling you when to take a bowel movement, you might not be talking to Siri
It's a direct answer to Amazon's plan where you pay $4/mo to get music streaming on one Echo. For a casual listener with (perhaps just) a HomePod mini, its a cheap(er) way to stream music. They released it going into a holiday season where some people will likely be getting HomePod minis as gifts. It makes perfect sense.
If they paid me $5, I wouldn’t use Siri - the dumbest personal assistant and an embarrassment to Apple.
At least things with little initial value that only depreciate, like digital music.
I have two HomePods. But there are times I want to play something that Siri doesn’t comprehend or my dog barks while I’m trying to talk to Siri and she says “sorry I can’t find Franklin shut up on Apple Music” and idk how you’d get by without being able to search manually.
The thing that would stop me from ever purchasing this “plan” (besides Siri being completely useless) is the thought of ever having to use this on public transport. Bus, train, plane etc. Shouting out what you want to listen to (most likely multiple times due to Siri) is not ideal.
You need to reread the article. You don’t seem to understand the subject matter. Your comment makes no sense.
