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Apple's Bozoma Saint John on Apple Music: 'We're Developing Something Very Special'
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I'd rather Apple Music succeeded with content than YouTube Red. 10 years ago, people were saying "YouTube is the future of TV" but Google saw what Facebook had built and tried to turn it into that.
Now they see what Netflix have built, what Amazon are building and what Apple are looking to compete in, and are trying to invest in YouTube Red... You could have been 10 years ahead of the competition, Google.
Now they see what Netflix have built, what Amazon are building and what Apple are looking to compete in, and are trying to invest in YouTube Red... You could have been 10 years ahead of the competition, Google.
I have a very large personal music library and I don't pay for enough monthly data on my cellular plan to stream music as much as I listen.
I want to know what Apple, Spotify, Pandora, and anyone else has to offer an offline listener like me.
The fact is, none of these services offer me a damn thing. Great, I can listen to any album in the iTunes library. Oh wait... I'm mobile and can't use the data... I want a curated list.... oh that's only for streamers...
Video program says add absolutely nothing to Apple Music or the Beats 1 programming. I can't afford the data to stream the music, how am I going to stream video?
Also; Beats 1 is for a specific audience. Like all other FM radio stations, it's made for the popular music fan. If you don't like what's on the radio, you're not likely to enjoy Beats 1.
Until data limits are more affordable, offline options need to be included. And that's my reason for not being on Apple Music. It's a waste of money for me right now and I buy plenty of music that I actually enjoy.
Where can Apple Music fill in the gaps for me? Cause I'm not seeing a single benefit.
I want to know what Apple, Spotify, Pandora, and anyone else has to offer an offline listener like me.
The fact is, none of these services offer me a damn thing. Great, I can listen to any album in the iTunes library. Oh wait... I'm mobile and can't use the data... I want a curated list.... oh that's only for streamers...
Video program says add absolutely nothing to Apple Music or the Beats 1 programming. I can't afford the data to stream the music, how am I going to stream video?
Also; Beats 1 is for a specific audience. Like all other FM radio stations, it's made for the popular music fan. If you don't like what's on the radio, you're not likely to enjoy Beats 1.
Until data limits are more affordable, offline options need to be included. And that's my reason for not being on Apple Music. It's a waste of money for me right now and I buy plenty of music that I actually enjoy.
Where can Apple Music fill in the gaps for me? Cause I'm not seeing a single benefit.
They've made it so much more of a PITA to listen to my own music that I hope they're doing something great. I had to buy a third-party app (Cesium) just to bring my music out of the "Library" ghetto; the rest of the nav tabs in the Music app are useless to me.
That's entirely up to Apple. If the recent rumors about their content offerings are true... yeah, I don't see much success going down that road.
Millennial here as well, I also am ashamed of the mumbling rap artists we've made famous
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I do love Apple music, before I never paid for music and downloaded it from torrents and YouTube converters and some songs would have terrible quality and it was a PITA to deal with. Now I have since doubled my music collection and I don't feel guilty about the multiple thousands of songs I have 
I don't think adding TV shows is the way to go with this, Netflix is the king right now I believe.
I don't think adding TV shows is the way to go with this, Netflix is the king right now I believe.
Its called Applespeak. When youre part of the cult you surround yourself with those who fit in bu sounding and looking alike. Apple calls it culture but fail to realize cult is part of culture. Meaning follow blindly.
You must be aware that you can download content to your phone and not stream it?
Honestly, I'm in a similar position - if I stream all my music that's my data gone pretty fast. So when the New Music Match playlist arrives I can download it via WiFi at home, and then it'll play on my commute without using any data. Same with all the songs I've added to my library.
Plus there are a few places on my commute with no signal, and this means my music isn't interrupted.
I would have thought they'd discontinue it (like Ping or Connect) if it hadn't been successful. Clearly there are enough listeners.
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Hopefully they won't be making shows like Ex on the Beach which make me lose all faith in humanity, and instead make good video we want to watch, like Netflix does.
please elaborate on this. Because from what I've seen..... Apple is doing just fine. Asking Apple..... or anyone to catch up to Netflix is a very tall order. Seeing as Netflix practically created, defined, and redefined the market. Legitimate TV offering is something Apple's success with iTunes has going against them.
the ENTIRE movie/TV market saw what happened to the music business after Apple took over. They have made it their mission NEVER to allow any one company to do that to them.
Completely agree. They need to focus on the products they produce, not culture in my opinion. Ping and connect were both a "sigh" and to try to go against Netflix, Hulu and Amazon in the original content space will most likely fall flat, kinda like project titan-which left nothing but blocks in this magical "pipeline".
What makes the original content space so ripe at the moment is the stories being told, and many creators, producers, and directors being able to have much more control over 'their' stories, without network/corporate interference. Apple can't allow a loose hand on their brand offerings-and will most likely not find any significant success in this space.
Apple has lost favor with the youth (as many consumer surveys report) and are neglecting their base con/prosumers that they have had for decades or more. A current MTV (opposed to when they actually played music) isn't gonna change the youth (read future prime consumer) opinion of Apple.
Someone is really asleep at the wheel.
So instead of a "pipeline" we have "horizon"… maybe Tim put a ™ on his own use of "pipeline".
That picture BTW, talk about some serious manspreading. Geesus guys, learn to sit properly.
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And agree with this comment 100%
That picture BTW, talk about some serious manspreading. Geesus guys, learn to sit properly.
Edit:
And agree with this comment 100%
'We're Developing Something Very Special'
Please, just bring back the good ol' music app from iOS 7 (preferably though the one from iOS 6) as I have no interest in streaming music; let those that want that have their own app for that. Allow those of us that want to listen to our own music (from importing our cd's into iTunes) to have some app exclusively for that.
Please, just bring back the good ol' music app from iOS 7 (preferably though the one from iOS 6) as I have no interest in streaming music; let those that want that have their own app for that. Allow those of us that want to listen to our own music (from importing our cd's into iTunes) to have some app exclusively for that.
Ahhhhh ha ha ha ha! COMPLEX! ha ha ha ha...that says it all. Oh Apple.....COMPLEX...really? I guess Tim has decided to put a new face on the "pipeline". Maybe the urban market will respond better to the pipeline.
Well she will never reach her goal as I am NOT going to engage with Apple Music...EVER. These three look like a fashion miscommunication. She got all dressed up and professional (even though she looks like she should be selling Apple II's...not saying its a bad thing...just very 70's/80's), the guy on the left looks like a punk/thug/idiot, and the guy on the right looks pretty casual and possibly intelligent. She would be better off if she lost the entourage or at least the thug looking dude on the left. The thug isn't even wearing an Apple Watch. It is too bad Apple uses her as a tool. She would probably do a better job than Tim at running the company. She has become Apple's public diversity statement.
Well she will never reach her goal as I am NOT going to engage with Apple Music...EVER. These three look like a fashion miscommunication. She got all dressed up and professional (even though she looks like she should be selling Apple II's...not saying its a bad thing...just very 70's/80's), the guy on the left looks like a punk/thug/idiot, and the guy on the right looks pretty casual and possibly intelligent. She would be better off if she lost the entourage or at least the thug looking dude on the left. The thug isn't even wearing an Apple Watch. It is too bad Apple uses her as a tool. She would probably do a better job than Tim at running the company. She has become Apple's public diversity statement.
Spend all your time on an Apple forum and criticise Apple. Productive.
I've got nothign against the type of music.
But it is one of the reasons I haven't bothered listening to Apple's Beats music. I'm not an R&B fan. I don't listen to pop music. I listen to hard rock and heavy metal. there's literally nothing i have ever heard on beats that makes me interested in it.
And every single person? Apple music has a LONG way to come before it can cater to that. You want to hit a wider audience Apple? Decouple it from iTunes. Create a web UI like GPM and Spotify.
I will NOT use iTunes. end of story. As long as iTunes is a required application to use it on the computer, I will not subscribe.
How about diversity in the music they play and feature? How about more than just top 40 crap and rap and hip hop. There are other genres of music.
Oh boy Apple you're floundering.
Do you know what's wrong with Apple Music? It's slow. At least for me on my iDevices, it's slower to find content and respond to my commands.
Also, when searching, why do I have to search "Apple Music" and "Your Library" separately? I don't care where the song is. Just give me a little marker so I know whether it's something I own or am renting while my subscription lasts.
In short, stop fannying around with platitudes and hyperbole and just fix it.
Do you know what's wrong with Apple Music? It's slow. At least for me on my iDevices, it's slower to find content and respond to my commands.
Also, when searching, why do I have to search "Apple Music" and "Your Library" separately? I don't care where the song is. Just give me a little marker so I know whether it's something I own or am renting while my subscription lasts.
In short, stop fannying around with platitudes and hyperbole and just fix it.
