Apple Music Is Installing Itself To the Dock, Booting Out Other Apps (techcrunch.com) 50
According to some iPhone users, the Apple Music iOS app is installing itself directly to the iPhone's dock when downloaded, instead of to the phone's home screen. "It's also kicking out other apps users had set up in their dock and taking their spot, which is not something apps would normally do," adds TechCrunch. From the report: Some iPhone owners also found the bug was causing Apple Music to establish itself as the default music service for Siri requests, even if another service had previously been configured for this, like Spotify. It's unclear how widespread the bug is at this time, as we've tested it internally with mixed results. However, we've seen the dock issue taking place across different versions of iOS 15, old and new, so it does not appear to be related to a recent iOS update. It's also been seen impacting different iPhone models. [...] Apple was not able to provide further details about the bug, but said it's looking into it. You can view the "odd behavior" in a video posted on Twitter by iOS developer Kevin Archer.
Re: Why would you use anything else? (Score:2)
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Much like the demand Apple has to always use the same renderer for web browsers regardless of which browser you install.
Re: Why would you use anything else? (Score:1)
A better question is why use an iPhone in the first place.
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Pixels starting with 6 are guaranteed security updates until at least October 2026, making that 5 years. I believe Samsung and Nokia have started doing the same thing. FairPhone gives 5 years of hardware warranty, and 6 years of updates.
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Because Android is hot garbage? If you want OS updates then Apple is the only game in town.
My 2018 Note9 is still getting OS updates regularly.
iMessage is superior than SMS in every way.
Out of hundreds of people I have/had conversations with through phones, only one is still using SMS.
Here comes your reply that tells me to use some third party messaging system. Great, which one reaches all Android users? Oh there isn't one, you and your circle have to all agree to pick one.
ALL of them reach all Android users, if Android users choose to install them on their phones. Choice is good, and I respect that. Oh and circles are free to pick several, they are definitely not limited to one. Also, if you look more closely into it, there are apps which help combine multiple apps under an unified interface. Notably, Apple's messaging app is
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It's so fun to hijack a discussion with a single anti-Apple statement and watch the ants scurry. Let's see if I can do it again.
Answering only one point in a few ways:
- The functionality provided by the iMessage application is somewhat impressive.
- The fact that iMessage is limited to people with Apple devices makes it useless and hilarious.
- The further fact that Apple decided it was useful to brand SMS users with their own color, SOLELY TO ENCOURAGE APPLE DEVICE USERS TO MOCK ANDROID DEVICE USERS -- there
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A better question is why use an iPhone in the first place.
Basically if you're a teenie-bopper and MUST have the latest fashion accessories. If your headphones don't have a stylized b logo and your phone doesn't have an apple logo, then your friends all hate you.
Or at least, that's what social media teaches. In the real world though:
https://www.urbandictionary.co... [urbandictionary.com]
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I've never used Apple Music but I am just going to venture a guess that Spotify is way better, in probably every way.
Re:Why would you use anything else? (Score:5, Interesting)
I've never used Apple Music but I am just going to venture a guess that Spotify is way better, in probably every way.
As someone who's used Apple Music, you're correct.
But the most hilarious thing is that Spotify on iOS is also far more stable than Apple Music.
Apple Music breaks constantly. You know that Spotify feature that will play similar music after a playlist ends? Apple Music does that too. Except it will frequently get stuck in a loop, playing the same song over and over again. Trying to skip to a new song will just make it crash.
Apple Music will also just sometimes stop. It thinks it's playing, but the connection dropped briefly, so it'll just never resume playing music, ever. Attempting to pause and restart the track won't fix it. It's time to force kill the entire thing to reload it. This will, of course, lose your place in your playlist, resetting it to somewhere effectively random.
You can try and download music locally to your phone. (Remember, Apple Music is a paid thing. There is no free tier.) This generally doesn't work: some tracks will download, the rest will be permanently broken until you delete your library and try again.
OK, so when I said there's no free tier, someone probably wants to point out that you can sync music from your computer. (This is the only way to do it without paying - you can do it over the Internet, but only if you pay for an Apple Music subscription.) The one problem is that involves iTunes or the remains of iTunes on macOS. And as I'm sure everyone is aware, iTunes doesn't work. Syncing your music just doesn't work. It hasn't worked pretty much the entire time iOS has existed. You'll get a few tracks, then it will crash. Some music might play. Other tracks will cause the Music app to instantly crash if you try and use it. If you keep on retrying over and over and over again, you might get your music over. Or you might permanently corrupt the Music app's DB and be forced to delete the entire library and try again.
All this being said, I actually believe that the bug described is, in fact, a bug. You can't uninstall Apple Music, not really. You can just hide the icon. My guess is that if it was in the dock, and you "download" it after "uninstalling" it, iOS will try and restore it to the dock, kicking out whatever replaced it.
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The problems of Apple music extend way beyond the app. E.g. Windows users will find there's no way to play Apple Music other than through the browser or ... iTunes which Apple themselves say is depreciated. Neither of which offer several of the paid features of Apple music.
On Android Auto Apple Music publish themselves as a music player but don't publish the search playlist function. So if you have multiple music players installed you can have the funny example of getting into the car listening to Apple Mus
Re: Why would you use anything else? (Score:2)
Re:Why would you use anything else? (Score:4, Interesting)
I've never used Apple Music but I am just going to venture a guess that Spotify is way better, in probably every way.
Apple Music is cheaper, has better sound quality (lossless, and surround), and will also make your own music library available on line with your own tracks. It also has much more advanced playlist tools - smart playlists [apple.com], which are dynamically updated based on your own criteria. Apple Music also didn't lose a lot of artists over the Joe Rogan controversy.
Spotify has a better UI and better music discovery
Source: I use both.
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Why would you want to use an app other than Apple Music to listen to music in the Apple ecosystem? I just don't get it? Can someone help me here?
Spotify has much better music discovery and a better user interface. Apple Music has better sound quality (lossless or surround), and allows you to also access your private music library with files that don't exist on the streaming service
Spotify promised lossless last year, but stopped talking about it and it's nowhere to be seen [beebom.com]. Spotify is also more expensive, probably because they've spent so much money on podcasts that would be better off in a separate app at a separate subscription. They're also lack
Mandatory GIF (Score:5, Funny)
Bug vs feature:
https://i.imgur.com/sJVAb9G.gi... [imgur.com]
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Anticompetitive -- LOL (Score:2)
Music is a default preinstalled app, its default location is the doc. Reinstalling is simply putting it in its normal location. Moving it off the doc takes a swipe.
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It did that & what else? What other changes are enumerated in the article? How would you like to excuse those?
No excuse is needed, for example making the reinstalled Music app Siri's default is also just restoring the default condition of the phone. Which is arguably what nearly all people reinstalling Music are trying to do. "Reinstalling" is the key here. If it were doing so merely because it had been run that would be a different situation.
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No, that's not how most people expect apps to work & not how the vast majority of them do.
Most apps are not built-in from-the-factory dock apps. Among all the apps from Apple, it is one of four such special apps. It is essentially restoring the app to its factory setting. That makes this particular case different.
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Trivial to reconfigure for the outliers like yourself. Such a reconfiguration would be persistent, as it always has been.
There is no reason non-technical users shouldn't automatically be restored to the Apps factory configuration.
Mandatory South Park Reference (Score:3)
Why won't it read!?!?!?!? [youtube.com]
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Well great now I am laughing thinking about "Should I eat the cuttlefih and asparagus or the vanilla paste"?
Of course it's a bug (Score:2)
In other news: A bug caused the app to login to users bank accounts and secretly transfer $1000 to a Swiss bank. A spokesperson told us that "We are investigating this issue and will release a patch in a few weeks".
Apple dev team internal code name for this app (Score:4, Insightful)
Mockingbird.
Bug? (Score:4, Interesting)
If Microsoft were doing similar, it wouldn't be called a bug.
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Remember when Apple forced a U2 album on their users by adding it to their music library without even asking?
Well done TechCrunch! Great journalism (Score:4, Insightful)
The article is a really cringe-worthy read. It consists almost entirely of mind-bending rationals for why Apple couldn't possibly, ever, even consider doing this on purpose:
* An Apple Music bug is perplexing some iPhone owners ...
* While some would argue there’s room to be suspicious of a self-preferencing change like this
* in this case, the case for it being a bug is strong, given that it’s not impacting all users in the same way.
* although Apple surely wants more subscribers to its Apple Music service, it’s hard to imagine Apple is willing to override consumers’ established preferences
* it didn’t take long for Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney to make the case for Apple rigging its own platform. Epic, of course, is engaged in a heated antitrust lawsuit
So claim it must be a bug because of limited reproducability, risk of bad press, "perplexed" and suspicious users and mean self-interested critics instead of just pointing out that Apple does this sort of shit all the time.
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The bug is that it didn't work on all devices, because obviously why would anyone want anything but Apple products on their Apple device!
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Ah yes of course, when Microsoft does it it's evil and illegal but when Apple does it it's a "bug". You know like when Microsoft shipped their OS with a default browser it's evil but when Apple ships their OS with a default browser that you can't delete and can't even replace because alternatives are forced to use Apple's browser engine anyway (like if Microsoft forced all browsers to use Trident) it's apparently user friendly and securely designed for "children and infants" [theverge.com].
Microsoft puts ads for OneDrive
Dock? (Score:1)
Is a dock like one of those chargers with speakers? I didn't think you could install software to those things.
It is a wonder (Score:3)
It is a wonder they allow Spotify at all.
They famously kicked many previously available apps from the market when they built replacements. (No, we are not competing with you, you are competing with us now, so you are out).
They have disabled Epic's developer certificate over Fortnite. It was a multi-platform game with many payment options (no, cannot have you sell something without oour 30% tax). And just today they could come back via the web browser and Microsoft's cloud. (Expecting a "bug" in the next Safari update to "help" with this).
If Apple had their way, they would remove 100% of all non-Apple stuff from their markets.
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They've been trying this by adding to the bloatware on the device by shipping with the app pre-installed and then advertising free trials of Apple Music in the settings, turning iOS into an adware OS.
Most of the time when they "sherlock" something they just build their own copy and ship it built in to the OS. As for comptetition it depends on things like what kind of app it is, if it's selling digital goods/services then Apple wants a 30% cut of those sales, if it's selling physical goods/services then, arb
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They have disabled Epic's developer certificate over Fortnite.
No. They disabled Epic's developer certificate over a large and willful breach of the ToS. Spotify does not breach Apple's ToS.
Though you do touch on a point: Antitrust rules are only for people big enough to bring an antitrust case against Apple. You can boot the small developer of an insignificant app (which they've done many times), but if you do the same thing to a big company you find they typically employ lawyers. Booting Spotify the same way they booted the person who made the memo app 10 years ago w
Reality check (Score:2)
except that that's simply not the way music already worked on iOS.
Use pandora enough, and it defaults to *that*, not Apple Music.
To the point of responding to "Play ABC", where ABC is something in the Apple Music library, causes a failure to play anything as it tries to do it with pandora, and fails to find a match.
So "open music"
pandora opens.
"play music with music"
Pandora opens.
I finally found that I could, usually, get "open Apple Music" to open the correct app.
there is, at the moment (or at least a coup
User interface experts (Score:4, Interesting)
Look, Apple has been doing this a long time. They are experts in what makes for the best User Experience. It's about time you trust them and allow them to guide you down whatever path they see fit.
Music is a default preinstalled app (Score:2)
Possible reason (Score:2)