Apple Music could use some work but Spotify is absolutely trash. I only pay for it because of its Tesla integration. The app is awful, the sound quality is worse. Up until recently the play button was actually a shuffle button. They don’t pay artists and management is petty AF as seen here with lack of HomePod support. The list goes on and on.
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Apple sold 2.4 million HomePods in the first quarter of 2021. That's a bit more than a dozen and that's just the US.
How many of them bought it to use with Spotify? Probably a small handful considering it doesn't work with it.
And 2.3 million of them thought they were buying a decorative lamp. ? Considering that Siri is completely useless, I guarantee you that HomePod will become yet another one of Apple’s many abandoned/canceled products. It has no future.
As the world realizes the steps being taken for/against data privacy, I am betting that marketshare will change. I also think that localized Siri is inevitable and will enable more home automation which is at the core of the Apple paradigm. The Apple TV functions as a Hub and you can stream to it from any iOS device pretty easily. The Spotify Apple brinkmanship will eventually result in more money for both in the end. IMO.
So people are buying a $99 speaker by mistake? I guess you're speaking from experience. Just wanted to warn you that AirPods are not suppositories. I hope it's not too late.
There's that. Too bad Siri doesn't work in my language reliably enough to be worth anything. I can set timers most of the time, that's about it. Ask it to call someone or to play a song and you're soon wishing Siri would understand the command "eat **it and die" and would blow up at command.
You really think we should choose an inferior service only to pay artists more ?
No of course not, Spotify sucks, don’t pay artists and Rogan. Dump Spotify, demand better
As soon as Apple Music has something similar as Spotify Connect , more reliable search , collaborative playlists , the ability to sort playlists by added date , an application on Xbox and less bugs , I will consider to switch !
I wouldn’t loose all of the above just for this small difference (if there is any) since anyway I don’t own the right devices to hear it.
Will Spotify allow me to save my own music library alongside songs that I’ve downloaded. I have about 30GB of music from my own that I like to have on my iPhone.
Really doubt Apple cares about your own or pirated music in your library, amongst millions of users. It’ll cost them more to actually go after you legally lol. Analogous to Microsoft not going after individual users for a pirated version of Office, but it will go after businesses. I don’t know what the point you’re trying making there. If you bought the CD regardless if it was on full price or on sale, it wouldn’t matter to Apple lol
You have no idea what you’re taking about. The HomePod runs its own os. Apple can’t support the “on Spotify“ out of the box. Spotify needs to add a SiriKit Media Intent on their side. There is a WWDC talk about it.
