Impressions without extremes: Apple Music after a month and a half

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A month and a half has passed since the launch of Apple Music. During this time, every blogger, journalist and editor managed to express their opinion about the service. I don't have the exact numbers, but I feel like 90% of these opinions are titled either "Apple Music is shit, I won't use it," or "Apple Music is the best thing that has happened to music in recent years."

Such reviews or articles are also bad because, in fact, they do not give any information to the user. Good functions rise to a pedestal, bad ones are presented as if they completely change the world for the worse. A month and a half is a good time to decide which reaction Apple Music deserves: "Yes" or "No".

Yes

Ever since I was using my iPhone and Windows computer, iTunes has made me fearful. I synchronized the device once a month, and then only because I was constantly jailbreaking and was afraid that the system would crash. If I had my way, I would never go to iTunes. Therefore, before the release of Apple Music, I was curious how the service would be presented on the Mac. In the form of a bulky combine that can do everything and nothing at the same time, or as a simple service that is pleasant to use.

It turned out to be something in between. The new iTunes has, but still more advantages. The key advantage for me was that I can turn on my computer and start music in three clicks: open iTunes - switch to the desired tab - press Play.

Things weren't so smooth on the iPhone. But only until I installed the public beta of iOS 9. It can be seen that the company is improving the service. It gets better with every update. The annoying system menus that expanded to full screen were replaced with neat lists. Periodic flights seem to have stopped. And Connect is slowly filled with interesting information about the performers.

It would seem that everything is fine, but no.

No

Google Play Music was the first music streaming service I tried. I've been using it for half a year, more than Spotify and Apple Music combined. Nevertheless, Apple Music can only be compared with Spotify - in my opinion, Google Play Music loses.

And the service does not stand up to comparison with Spotify. First of all because of. As much as I like music, Apple Music offers a wild mix of different genres, and I still can't figure it out. Spotify is a service for the lazy, click Play and listen to great music. In Apple Music, you first have to find it.

Despite the fact that changes for the better are visible, minor diseases are still in place. Tracks are sometimes interrupted, loading music in the background - too. And don't even think about downloading playlists offline. Then the media library will turn into a limitless list of performers, each of which has one track. I also want to say about the brakes, but my tongue does not turn out to be. It's not worth talking about brakes using an iPhone 5 three years ago.

Before Apple Music came out, I was worried that Spotify would not stand up to the competition. I'm glad I was wrong. Even with the free subscription promotion, Apple Music has a user base of only 11 million. This is not comparable to the 75 million Spotify users.

However, Apple Music only needs one thing - time. Now the service loses to the Swedish competitor. And if you only want to enjoy the best, then that's Spotify. But it is clear that Apple is working on the service, and it seems to me that a year is the period after which Apple Music will become the new standard in the field of streaming services. And I'm also looking forward to this moment because I'm wondering - what will Spotify be by then?