Casey Liss
Spotify can hand off what’s playing between devices. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112807798133371559
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Attached: 1 image Apple Music VP claims Spotify has ‘stopped innovating,’ touts Beats Pill redesign in new interview https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/18/apple-music-vp-claims-spotify-has-stopped-innovating-touts-beats-pill-redesign-in-new-interview/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Jul 18, 2024 at 3:26pmIvory for iOS
Show threadFabienJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss 🔥🔥🔥
But also I wonder if there isn't a good reason wh y they don't do it. Maybe linked to several people using different devices logged in the same account.
When my daughter uses a phone logged in my account while I’m using my iPad, whoever presses play last choose what I hear in my AirPods…
Show threadGary ParkerJul 18, 2024

@fabienmarry @caseyliss Spotify can do hand-off, and that's one of the key missing features for Apple Music, imho.

The problem here isn’t innovation, though:
1. it wouldn’t be innovation if Apple copied it, because Spotify already did it
2. Apple *can’t* do it because Spotify patented it 🤨

To be clear: I would *love* the feature to be on Apple Music, but I don't miss it enough to go back to Spotify

Show threadYury MolodtsovJul 18, 2024
@fabienmarry @caseyliss I think their actual reason is Apple thinks of these things as device-first, not service-first
Show threadKenny BarntJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss but it’s been able to do that for awhile though, right? So that’s not innovation anymore 🙃
Show threadJack WellbornJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss @9to5Mac Sometimes it feels like the windows with a view at Apple Park all face inward.
Show threadPhilip Mallegol-HansenJul 18, 2024

@caseyliss As someone who happily uses Apple Music daily: I can’t think of a single feature this app/service has, that Spotify didn’t have before them.

The automated playlists, the year in review, what exactly is “innovative”?

Such a hot take from Apple.

Show threadmarlies Jul 18, 2024
@caseyliss @9to5Mac Spotify works as you’d expect with APPLE airplay and APPLE homepods unlike APPLE music
Show threadLennart SchoorsJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss Who cares about features or “innovation” when it takes 15 seconds to add an album to my library?
Show threadJimmy CallinJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss Also Spotify Connect >>>>> AirPlay
Show threadAnton 🌻Jul 18, 2024
@caseyliss Corporations’ approach to AI shows that their definition of “innovation” is “shipping features that don’t work”, so that’s kinda fits
Show threadKristopher BrowneJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss @9to5Mac are underpaying artists and reviving payola features? Maybe Spotify can claim those as innovations.
Show threadYury MolodtsovJul 18, 2024
@krisbrowne42 @caseyliss @9to5Mac Spotify pays out 74% of their entire revenue to right holders and is barely profitable
Show threadPatrickJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss Spotify can play music. The same can’t always be said for Apple Music.
Show threadAlex KretzschmarJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss spotify connect is legit a great feature. i hate them as a company but this keeps us in the ecosystem for now.
Show threadNicolas HoizeyJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss @robb @9to5Mac but can I play different musics on 2 devices connected to the same account? Last time I tried, a few years ago, I think it was not possible.
Show threadYury MolodtsovJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss Yeah, I get that they focus on lossless and spatial, but UI/UX wise Spotify definitely innovates more (not everyone prefers it, of course).
Show threadPeter van BroekhovenJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss @9to5Mac Not innovating, yet still better 🤔
Show threadMichael GabrielJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss It genuinely blew my mind when Apple Music launched and didn’t have this feature on day 1. There aren’t words for the degree of absurdity that is *still* not having the feature in 2024.
Show threadSeanJul 18, 2024
@caseyliss that’s Apple tech, not Spotify.
Show threadCasey LissJul 19, 2024
@Strwpok no, it’s Spotify Connect.
Show threadSeanJul 21, 2024
@caseyliss It’s not using apples handoff technology?
Show threadCasey LissJul 21, 2024
@Strwpok it is not.