I'm not. Apple Music is infested with that ********. Pandora, Spotify everyone else has a VASTLY better selection and wider range of music than AM could ever hope for
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Jimmy Iovine Allegedly Planning to Leave Apple in August [Updated]
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At the expense of their long-time pro customers and Macs.....
Because Macrumors. That’s why.
Yeah because Apple Music had anything at all to do with Macs. What.... Apple pulled engineers and hardware designers to write streaming software???
Once again, did they seriously need Dre to make Apple Music?!? I don't recall Spotify or any of the other music services spending $3 billion on a big name to make their (arguably) higher quality applications.
If the Beats brand is so valuable in the audio/music space why isn't Apple branding the new HomePod speaker with the Beats brand?
Iovine was the only real asset of the Beats purchase, but I’m not sure it was worth 3 billion dollars to have one influential guy at the negotiating table with the record labels.
I honestly think the Apple music user base is just OK considering the immense iOS/iTunes user base. I would have thought the end consumer would buy Apples music streaming regardless due to the convenience and integration of services. Unfortunately Beats or it’s employees had nothing to do with that.
Reading these threads is sometimes quite painful. One doesn't read past the headline, and the other two read another headline entirely...smh.
They need someone new who can entirely redesign Apple Music from the ground up - 100% gut the entire app and start over. It will never grow otherwise. It’s that awful in its current state.
Meanwhile, Apple leads the market in mobile processing.OMG, hardware has become so lame, i'll give you some examples. Macbook - underpowered with one port, one port! Macbook pro - over priced and USC-c only? how many dongles have you gotten for your over priced laptop.. and how many times have you forgotten those dongles when you need them. Mac Pro - need I say more? Mac Mini - cough cough
Now let's talk about Apple Watch. It's not bad, but not steller, personally I was shocked that the 10k model was discontinued....
And Iphones/Ipads - are good, I find iOS so limiting, and Siri is the best joke ever! Qi charging that is 5 years behind the rest of the industry is sad.
Air Pods - those were well done. I give it to those engineers, I was very impressed with them. However, I have Bose as I like to have several devices connected at the same time. Something they can't do and a must need feature for me.
Time Capsules - It's become it's own time capsule with ancient hardware.
Home Pod - They couldn't match google home's integration to the web, so they released a half ass eco and made some marking BS about acoustics.
Apple TV - Why wouldn't you get a roku and have 10 times more. Apple TV remote is junk. Looks nice, but just junk.
While Apple's mobile devices are blazing fast (ignoring the whole battery thing), I just can't remember when I have been so disappointed with Apple's hardware. To each their own, but if Tim Cook retired and craig federighi took over, I would be happy.
I don't think he fit Apple culture but I tend to see Apple Music as a standalone company or a self contained project. In that, he's been a significant contributor behind the scenes — hence the criticism: those of you saying "good riddance" don't see what he's done.
Nonetheless, he got the brunt of the work done, getting the industry on side and helping Apple transition the successful but inevitably outdated iTunes purchasing model into Apple Music's streaming model. It's on the right path and I think Apple can take it from here.
Nonetheless, he got the brunt of the work done, getting the industry on side and helping Apple transition the successful but inevitably outdated iTunes purchasing model into Apple Music's streaming model. It's on the right path and I think Apple can take it from here.
More competent?? You seriously don’t know who Iovine is do you?
These music services are really turning into where music goes to die.
I hope the next person can figure out where iTunes ends and Apple Music begins. The lines are so blurred and confusing right now.
That, Pedro, is an intelligent, well thought-out post. I agree in that he has presumably been useful at helping Apple make contracts behind the scenes. I think most people here are reacting to the way he comes across in some interviews. Like his semi-sexist comment about women and music seeking. Here's a response that he made, not one of his high points:
"I just thought of a problem, you know: girls are sitting around, you know, talking about boys. Or complaining about boys, you know, when they’re heartbroken or whatever. And they need music for that, right? So it’s hard to find the right music, you know. Not everybody has the right lists, or knows a DJ or something."
He knows the entertainment biz and Apple does not. Apple Music as good as it is could be significantly improved.
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As someone who's had both for some time I can confidently say AM is better than Spotify. At one point I even had the beats app on my phone because it too was better than Spotify's app.
If you were talking about the original Apple Music, I'd agree with you, but they did completely rebuild it from the ground up and I think it works really well now. Everything is easy to find, the UI is clean and clutter free and it has quickly and effortlessly learned my musical tastes and suggests music that I'll like and it's almost always right.
What's missing that Spotify has got right is the widespread integration into third party speakers and other devices. But this isn't an Apple Music problem as much as it is an Apple business characteristic that often locks its services into its own hardware. Apple is a hardware company. It wants to sell its own hardware. Spotify is a service. It wants to get its service as widespread as possible. This is why they'll never be the same.
You confused financial success with good products. He has played a great short game, at the expense of long term success. Personally, Apple is now firstly a fashion company, second a tech company. If all you care about is a status symbol, then Apple is your company. OSX is the only reason i'm still around, all I can do is scream like the millions of others who want Tim's retirement.
This reminds me of the new star wars movie and the prequels. Sure they were a financial success, but a artistic disaster. Tim COOK IS THE GEORGE LUCUS of APPLE!
For a second I read Jonny Ive and I was like "finally!".
Yeah, under Tim Cook Apple has just been totally failing as a company. I mean look at how much they are worth, like practically nothing.