Apple Music is slowly being exposed as a bit of a shitshow under the covers. I’ve been fortunate not to have run into many of the issues folks are bringing up, but I definitely feel the pain of a poorly executed user experience, especially on the desktop. The bad news is that a lot of […]
Continue reading →Nice little comparison of a lot of the main screens in both apps.
On June 30th at around 10am, the switch was flipped on the iOS 8.4 upgrade that contained the new Apple Music app and about an hour later, Beats 1 went live on the new streaming service. Overall, it’s been a fairly smooth launch from what I gather, and I’ve had a chance to kick the […]
Continue reading →Recently, I posted my wish list of what I’d like to see in Apple Music before the WWDC announcement and while I’m really excited overall, I do still have some questions. Here’s a few bulleted thoughts based on what we know right now. Things I’m excited about They nailed the ‘architecture’ question I had. You […]
Continue reading →In the next few weeks Apple is set to announce a slew of updates to iOS and OS X. Most rumors indicate that we’ll see a lot of small improvements with every corner of the Apple ecosystem, but I’m looking most forward to the impending announcement of the new Apple / Beats product that should […]
Continue reading →I wish @spotify would ape the ‘Just For You’ section in Beats Music. — Daniel Andrews (@danielandrews) March 24, 2015 I love what Spotify has become over the past year or two. I was a Rdio user but saw the light last summer and haven’t looked back. The app is fast and easy to use […]
Continue reading →Lately, I’ve grown tired of the HTML5/Flash based nature of Rdio, despite all of the other things that I love about the service. The desktop ‘app’ is basically a wrapper app for the website so that you can use the media keys, but is otherwise a webpage. Right clicking and selecting ‘reload’ is a dead […]
Continue reading →As you may or may not know, Spotify launched this week in the US, and I of course jumped on board. I’m going to give Rdio and Spotify a fair shake before I decide which to use full time (I reviewed Rdio a while back, and have been an avid user since the service launched), but the early lead […]
Continue reading →I want to write a bit more about Rdio – a streaming music service that has really altered the way that I listen to music. Rdio allows you to browse a list of music on their site and steam as much as you like via their web interface or their free desktop application (which happens to be made […]
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