New blog post!

It's been ten years since Apple's streaming service launched. Let's look back on how it got here, and why a decade later, it still feels like it's on life support.

#Apple #music #spotify

https://medium.com/@loveshock/apple-music-ten-years-old-and-still-ten-years-behind-0d100254d50f

It’s been a decade since Apple Music launched. Why is it so far behind?

On June 8th, 2015, Tim Cook got up on stage and announced Apple Music to the world — a music streaming service, billed as a replacement for Beats Music, and poised to compete with industry giants…

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@loveshock As someone who doesn't actually use music streaming services I don't have much I can comment on for the actual comparison (I mostly read out of curiosity and because I'd read the previous blog post about spotify wrapped)-

-but I did have to leave a reply to express my appreciation at the "Lightning Round (Now USB-C, As Mandated By The EU)" joke, A+, no notes :D

@hokaze i'm gonna be so real that was a placeholder at first but i couldn't think of anything better before publishing so 😭

@loveshock Ah, fair - I commented on it because i made that slight exhale / snort of amusement noise while reading so I guess that says my quality of humour is NOT high quality lossless...but then I've seen and made enough loss memes for that to be no surprise :P

On the topic of title headings for the post that you're probably somewhat more proud of, shoutouts to "My Match, Your Beats" for managing the nod to "My Soul, Your Beats" from Angel Beats while also being very appropriate for discussing iTunes Match and Beats Music :3

...I'm honestly kinda surprised Apple are actually using native modern Windows UI for their Windows client tbh (less so much about that experience being subpar) but on reflection it makes sense, and it's kinda sad that keeping that same layout without constantly doing breaking changes is such a novelty in UI design these days