Replace the 'Apple Connect' Tab with a 'Playlists' Tab in Apple Music

[manu chao]

You've obviously never designed anything like the Music app. Apps on a subscription model you lay out the UI/UX to drive subscriptions and be friendly to subscribers with little regard for non-subscribers (You don't want them anyway).

You mean the non-existing UI elements of the streaming part that are hidden if you have not signed up for the service? These non-existing UI elements drive people towards signing up? Or the UI elements that are there once you have signed up, that drive you towards actually using the service you have signed up for?

Have you actually realised that once you have signed up there are no additional subscriptions they could market to you?
This is like accusing car makers to make their cars attractive to drive, to get people to want to use the car. How dare somebody make a product a user actually wants to use. Tricking the customer into buying a product by making it attractive to use.

Why do you think have music download sales dropped over the last couple of years? More illegal downloads? No, they have dropped because people are switching to streaming services. Apple isn't pushing subscription, it's the customers pushing Apple to offer subscription by stopping to buy songs. If they convert current song buyers to subscribers and make more money, it is because those people like subscription services more than buying songs and are willing to pay overall more for it. If Apple hadn't offered it, they would have switched to a competitor. Maybe Apple is speeding up that process by offering a product that is more appealing to current song buyers than competing streaming services or merely by making it easy (and cheap) to try it out.

 

[JackANSI]

This is like accusing car makers to make their cars attractive to drive, to get people to want to use the car. How dare somebody make a product a user actually wants to use. Tricking the customer into buying a product by making it attractive to use.

To use your analogy to describe my feelings of the POS new music app:
I bought a car with everything just how I wanted it, it could have been configured many different ways, but the configuration was flexible enough to be what I wanted.

Then one morning I wake up and find that the car maker has come and upgraded my car and instead of letting me configure it, they decided that I should like it the way they do it. So now when I goto my car instead of the key fob opening the driver door it opens the back door, my steering wheel is now where the center console used to be (yet I'm still sitting off to one side), and the center console is now inside the glove box... and I can't do anything about it.

All I want is the steering wheel and center console back where I left them and for people who like the new configuration (or any other variant) to keep it.

 

[Edward Kochen]

Connect seems much more artist friendly than Ping.

My band is on iTunes -

And that's all I needed to read. I don't care about the "behind the scenes" nonsense from the artists I follow.
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I'm not getting how people are not interested in Connect... do you have a favorite artist or band that you really love to listen to and flow? If so, what if they are putting up previously unreleased tracks for free on Connect, or behind the scenes rehearsal videos, wouldn't that be of interest to you? That's what Connect is all about.

All of my music projects from my record label have been approved for Connect and -

And SHUT UP. Maybe I couldn't give less of a bugger of a sod about previously unreleased tracks. Y'want to know why? BECAUSE I CAN FIND IT ELSEWHERE WITHOUT HAVING THE MUSIC APP HIJACKED BY APPLE THINKING I GIVE A RAT'S ARSE.
Besides, unreleased tracks are usually unreleased for a reason. Sod off.

 

[MallardDuck]

I buy (own) my music, not rent it. I listen offline 99% of the time. I want higher res audio than what Apple Music has, and don't want to pay data fees for it.

I don't care about what the artists are doing. I know when new albums come out from the ones I care about, and I go buy those (on a physical cd, DVD-A or SACD so I have full quality on my home system). I understand that some people do care about what a musician had for lunch, just don't force it - or streaming music - on the rest of us.

Anyone notice that if you're on a very slow network connection that even launching music now takes a long time - because it's doing some sort of phoning home? iBooks/audiobooks can take up to a minute to launch.