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Eddy Cue Talks Apple Music Subscriptions as Initial Three-Month Free Trials End
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Apple user evangelists who do sessions at WWDC rail against the hamburger menu but then in Apple Music we get ellipses everywhere. Let's face it there really is no difference between the hamburger menu and ellipses. It almost makes me think a completely different software team developed Apple Music. I don't get it.
I haven't tried Apple Music, but if the UI is anything like what iTunes has become over the last couple years, I'm not interested. I find iTunes more and more frustrating with each release. Among other things, on the desktop version, simply bringing up what's currently playing is maddening. If I'm just being a dunce, maybe someone would enlighten me?
Glad it isn't just me. I never liked that guy. No for any good reason, he just rubbed me the wrong way well before Apple Music. Could very well be an okay guy in real life but has not given me any reason to think so.
Everyone else seems like something in the range of "pretty cool" to "really cool"
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I nixed it as well. Price point, the fact that it appeared to have replaced some of the music I added to my phone via iTunes with cloud versions AND the fact that you cant add your own music w/out turning off Cloud Music (thus erasing any offline tracks) were all deal breakers for me. UI was confusing, too.
It *is* hilarious to see this plenty rich Apple exec worry about roaming charges, but I think he actually does /has to pay attention. To be ignorant of those costs would mean he's being ignorant of costs related to Apple's key product, that Apple's key market can't be ignorant of.
I couldn't agree more. I have had no issues at all. In fact, I question people who say it is "incredibly hard" to find music or an album. A baby could do that on Apple Music. And if you like a song, you tell siri to play more of that and she'll bring up the whole album.
You couldn't have said this better. People will complain about such small problems. Yes the app is not what the previous music app used to be because it's a brand new app written from scratch.
Get used to the new app and you'll love it. The price is one to beat, I'm on the $15 for me and my girlfriend.
I haven't used my free trial yet. Turned off "show apple music."
All I want is that promised increase in iCloud Music Library storage.
All I want is that promised increase in iCloud Music Library storage.
Free with commercials, that's the big difference and something that not all users and artists agree with. I'm not saying it's a dealbreaker, but it's a hinderance do go for an hour long run and have to listen to 4 minutes of commercials half way through. Having limited skips can also be a pain.
Do you have the underperforming numbers? They haven't released these numbers yet. Even if Spotify has 15 million users and Apple Music has 1 million - it is still a success.
According to the users on this board - they are moving on. Most comments remark that the UI is a mess and it is, but noone has any suggestions on making it better nor will they remark what they want. Instead it's "UI is a mess - I'm going (back) to Spotify.
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I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't use any music "service" other than buying iTunes tracks. I built up a large legal music library and and content with that for the most part. I'll buy 5 songs a month maybe?
But I have to say, I had no interest in giving Apple Music a go especially after hearing about the possibility of my own tracks getting replaced with DRM ones. (True or FUD, I don't know. The point is bad PR either way.) I have seen iTunes Match think different versions of one song were the same. That is enough to make me fear any kind of large-scale track replacement.
But I have to say, I had no interest in giving Apple Music a go especially after hearing about the possibility of my own tracks getting replaced with DRM ones. (True or FUD, I don't know. The point is bad PR either way.) I have seen iTunes Match think different versions of one song were the same. That is enough to make me fear any kind of large-scale track replacement.
The 2nd hint is Apple's new phone installment program. Apple is clearly trying to take away as much control from the cell carriers as possible.
To be perfectly honest, I never really used Apple Music during my three month trial. I did however use the Radio service, which I found to be very good. It seems to have suddenly stopped working though, can anyone confirm if you need the subscription to use Radio?
Anyway, my gripes with the entire new Music offering, including the App, is as follows:
1. The App has been butchered, literally. It's a nightmare to navigate and it's totally unintuitive.
2. Searching my library is much harder than before. Why on earth is so much screen space wasted on "Recently Added"? Who cares what I recently added? So incredibly idiotic...
3. The way that Albubs and Songs are stored is again, ridiculous. There appears to be real imbeciles at Apple these days. The Music app was perfect pre-iOS7. Why change things for the worse?
4. If I choose to turn off music in the cloud, why am I forced to look at a bar of text at the top of the screen which tells me that. Again, waste of space, stupid idea.
5. Why can't I edit the buttons along the bottom button pane? I have no need for their stupid Connect service. I'd like to have four buttons - Artists, Songs, Playlists, Radio. Is that so hard? I'm sure we could do this before..
6. The streaming service is disjointed from the store, there is no easy interaction between the two.
I could go on but what's the point. I'm pretty certain it will get even worse in the next release.
Anyway, my gripes with the entire new Music offering, including the App, is as follows:
1. The App has been butchered, literally. It's a nightmare to navigate and it's totally unintuitive.
2. Searching my library is much harder than before. Why on earth is so much screen space wasted on "Recently Added"? Who cares what I recently added? So incredibly idiotic...
3. The way that Albubs and Songs are stored is again, ridiculous. There appears to be real imbeciles at Apple these days. The Music app was perfect pre-iOS7. Why change things for the worse?
4. If I choose to turn off music in the cloud, why am I forced to look at a bar of text at the top of the screen which tells me that. Again, waste of space, stupid idea.
5. Why can't I edit the buttons along the bottom button pane? I have no need for their stupid Connect service. I'd like to have four buttons - Artists, Songs, Playlists, Radio. Is that so hard? I'm sure we could do this before..
6. The streaming service is disjointed from the store, there is no easy interaction between the two.
I could go on but what's the point. I'm pretty certain it will get even worse in the next release.
Apple Music isn't perfect but I think it's better than Spotify... Siri integration and family plan is hard to beat. UI could definitely be simpler but it also does a lot more.
That said, I've made no secret of the fact that I think Eddy Cue should be let go. He wasted $3B of shareholder money because he thought he could hire someone else to create a great music service when Apple already had everything in place to create one much more cheaply... without the distraction of integrating a sizable company with a declining brand.
He has shown time and again that he does not have the vision to lead Apple's services division and he's the weak link in Apple's hardware, software and services strategy.
That said, I've made no secret of the fact that I think Eddy Cue should be let go. He wasted $3B of shareholder money because he thought he could hire someone else to create a great music service when Apple already had everything in place to create one much more cheaply... without the distraction of integrating a sizable company with a declining brand.
He has shown time and again that he does not have the vision to lead Apple's services division and he's the weak link in Apple's hardware, software and services strategy.
I couldn't agree more. It seems like Cue's plate is very full and it would be great if they got some powerhouse person to take charge of all cloud services... it's Apple's weakest link in my opinion, but one where they could really shine if they got the right leadership in there.
I will also be dropping Spotify and sticking with Apple Music. It was a tough decision, and honestly I'd prefer to have both, but there's no way to justify $20/mo for two streaming services that are so similar.
In the end Siri integration trumped Spotify's user-created playlists for me. And there is of course a free version of Spotify but not for Apple Music. My favorite playlist: their Discovery weekly based on my likes also appears to be available even for free users.
In the end Siri integration trumped Spotify's user-created playlists for me. And there is of course a free version of Spotify but not for Apple Music. My favorite playlist: their Discovery weekly based on my likes also appears to be available even for free users.