When Apple bought Beats and inherited their "talent" I though they were making a HUGE mistake.
I was right...but sadly so.
I was right...but sadly so.
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Jimmy Iovine on Apple Music: 'We're Trying to Make it a Cultural Point of Reference'
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unless apple starts charging more or labels give up most of the share, artists aren't going to make that much more.
if apple charges more, people will move to spotify which pays out less to artists than apple. and they'll make even less $$$.
and there's no way labels are going to give up more.
even if apple + labels give up some of their profits, it's not going to astronomically raise the payment to the artist. it's just the way the model is set up. make good content that people will listen to, and you'll get paid much more in the long run. make content that no one wants, then you'll have to find another career. apple music's platform is setup to make sure this is true even more so: to make sure that artists don't get left behind just because listeners couldn't discover their music.
Then Apple is ****ed.
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Another Flapple (Apple Flop). Company is going down the drain. Dated hardware, half-baked software updates, 3rd rate apps (Maps, Music, etc). I believe Main Street is just now starting to realize Apple is the company of yesterday.
i would like Apple and Spotify to sign a truce saying they pledge to not take/make exclusives. one will not stop without the other doing the same.
They actually took my music away from me (in a sense). I used to keep all of our music in iTunes. Then, on our various devices (now, w/ new limited storage), we could stream music from that central hub, or download it locally, with a click, to take along with us.
Apple removed that functionality. The only reason seems to be to push me towards subscribing to Apple Music to unlock functionality I already had.
So, now I'm looking for an iTunes replacement... which will join my search for replacing several other Apple products Apple has rendered useless in pursuit of profit-maximization (at the price of UX).
Once complete, I may well be moving off the Apple platform, as the eco-system is mostly eroded or broken... we'll see.
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No doubt. They seem to finally be right, by accident.
Apple removed that functionality. The only reason seems to be to push me towards subscribing to Apple Music to unlock functionality I already had.
So, now I'm looking for an iTunes replacement... which will join my search for replacing several other Apple products Apple has rendered useless in pursuit of profit-maximization (at the price of UX).
Once complete, I may well be moving off the Apple platform, as the eco-system is mostly eroded or broken... we'll see.
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No doubt. They seem to finally be right, by accident.
stop trying to be something you arent and do what you do well. That will be more then enough.
Stop trying to "be the culture" and let people decide on what they want.
Stop trying to "be the culture" and let people decide on what they want.
I agree with Dalrymple but not only for curation... AM service and app just doesn't work very well - even after the latest redesign I still find it a bit awkward.
Also, saying "we are trying to make it a cultural point of reference" sounds like executive speak for "we're trying to be cool".
... maybe he's been hanging around Eddy Cue too much
I like to blame everything on Eddy.
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Where are you experiencing this? I rarely deviate from the Library tab and am never bothered by Apple trying to shove anything in my face. I listen to what I want to listen to and that's it.
an Tunes replacement will only sees the same things we see now.... a cludge of binging everything to together ether in one app that doesn't work. always
In order to do it right, u need Apple music separate.... Whenever Apple Updates iTunes they break stuff too often not because its hard to do always,but because it's "tightly integrated" services in one app
That integration is always fragile. and as u build on it, it only makes it worse, not better.
Lay everything out separate, then u can find what you want, vs sifting through knots trying untangle them. It's a programmers nightmare
Does anyone even listen to Beats1 anymore? I feel like Apple Music could have been great but it's disappointed from the very start. Spotify is leaps and bounds ahead of it for me.
He has no official title? They refer to him just as “Jimmy”? hahahahahaha
He’s like some business owner’s buffoon relative that they keep on the payroll because the relative has connections.
He’s like some business owner’s buffoon relative that they keep on the payroll because the relative has connections.
You mean like: "Great things to come in the pipeline". It only comes from the top.
There are do'ers and there are talkers, Apple seems to be full of the latter lately.
Before you make it a 'cultural point of reference' could you please update AirPlay/Remote to allow us to $&$?ing stream Apple Music to more than one room in my house?? Kthnxbai
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...o-solution-where-is-it.2031436/#post-24279290
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...o-solution-where-is-it.2031436/#post-24279290
I don't understand, you search for an album or artist and it is all there, what is the difference, nothing, unless an artist has an exclusive with Apple Music, otherwise if you want to find an album or artist and stream for free, Spotify. Apple should have purchased Spotify, simple but effective interface, good sound quality, free with a few ads.
Don't blame them. This is part of Apple's code of conduct. Have you heard their CEO talking in the last couple of years? It's all about what's gonna happen that actually never happens.
Hey, those guys, none of them need the money, so it's all about trying to force the term "Apple Music" into the same pop culture reference as the phrase to "Google" something, which is the ego stroke they're looking for (and will get paid for).
As for Apple Music, it has not caught on anywhere near the hopes that Apple had for it after a couple years, as there is a lot of solid, well established streaming services out there. You have to figure it's losing money big time and any other company would've long since stopped throwing resources at it with such little return, all things considered, given the so called horespower they have advising.
As for Apple Music, it has not caught on anywhere near the hopes that Apple had for it after a couple years, as there is a lot of solid, well established streaming services out there. You have to figure it's losing money big time and any other company would've long since stopped throwing resources at it with such little return, all things considered, given the so called horespower they have advising.
