I don't know if 'social' is just where it fails miserably. When you have Apple fanboys like Jim D./Gruber hating on Apple Music, you know it's bad.
All Apple needed to do is: scan your existing downloaded music library (NOT REPLACE anything), have a reference in the Cloud. And mix that with the streaming music. I don't get how the world's richest tech company (which spent $3 billion on 'Beats') failed on that.
Steve would never have released such problematic software. Tim?
I have multiple artists that I interact with from time to time as a fan.Even if it was a "success", or at least didn't have such poor customer service, at best, socially connecting musicians with their fans would just be another avenue for advertising. As if somehow, the artists that self-promote on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter would decide that with Apple Music, they actually want to interact with their fans on some meaningful level.
I don't know if 'social' is just where it fails miserably. When you have Apple fanboys like Jim D./Gruber hating on Apple Music, you know it's bad.
All Apple needed to do is: scan your existing downloaded music library (NOT REPLACE anything), have a reference in the Cloud. And mix that with the streaming music. I don't get how the world's richest tech company (which spent $3 billion on 'Beats') failed on that.
You can turn off Apple Music Connect in Restrictions. Then you get a "Playlists" Button instead![]()
As a Mac User since 1984, I think I can also tell when Apple services etc. suck, i.e. when I don't use them.
There is a long list of DOAs and what is not understandable is that they do not seem to KNOW how to fix them.
iDisk, mac.com, ping (LOL x infinity), apple music, iTunes I only use for streaming moving to my aTV as airdrop isn't as good and now bloatware. iCloud urrrgh, with pathetic storage default sizes, but a must if you want to find your phone, aTV UI is pathetic and the list goes on.
Searching the apps store is a joke, especially in iOS (Weed out the garbage please).
The richest company in the world can't seem to attract the talent to fix services, a big important leg for the future
when the market is totally saturated with smart phones.
Instead, they pay Dr. Dre and Jimmy for NOTHING!
I will admit that due to me age, I no longer care about music the way I did as a teenager, but what is going on with Apple Music is a joke. Too bad they can't see that:-(
You can turn off Apple Music Connect in Restrictions. Then you get a "Playlists" Button instead![]()
Yup. I did this. Not having a dedicated playlist link made no sense. If I like connect I wouldn't know it.
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Out of curiosity. What do you enjoy about Apple products in their current state?
The only "good" thing I've seen is a bra pic of Ellie Goulding... That thing seriously flopped.
disclaimer - i haven't tried apple music. but it is - as it stands - simply intrusive. just give me an iTunes without connectivity and cloud options. i'm a music purist with only 1 goal: listen to my own music in an clean organized way. not a splintered disorganized mess that tells me i have different music depending on whether i'm on wifi or cellular.
between this and photo stream/camera roll/my photos/and whatever Photos is trying to do, i consider much of apple's Cloud/Internet 'solutions' to organizing plain and simple media a pretty big bloated 'miss'
What did he mean?LOL..I misunderstood your meaning for a second there.