Your Product Sucks: Apple Music on macOS Review

The Apple Music app on Android is incredibly infuriating. What's even more fun is that Apple doesn't have anywhere to report bugs for it, and what's extra fun is that their bug reporter doesn't work on mobile (at least not with Firefox or Chrome).

My favorite bugs:

When connected to wifi that doesn't have internet access (like on a plane), some UI actions have a 60 second delay. So you tap a song to play it, wait 60 seconds for some network thread to timeout, and then the song plays

There used to be a bug where certain "smart" playlists would auto add every song you listened to (this has since been fixed)

Adding an album to a playlist straightup doesn't work

The button for downloading a playlist for offline listening doesn't do anything, you have to get each song manually

The broad decline in software quality from Apple has been gradual but steady since Jobs’ death. MacOS has deteriorated severely as the video shows, but even iOS has some serious problems. As someone who switched from Android about 6 months ago it’s safe to say Android is a much, much better operating system in its current incarnation (I plan to switch back). iOS still has better apps, but I doubt that will continue to be the case in a couple years.

It is fascinating, just like Microsoft. Both companies have basically infinite resources but they build software that has the quality of cheap low budget third party company products.

This is comical, and sad, to watch, as it perfectly summarizes everything that’s wrong with Catalyst (iOS-ification of macOS apps) on the Mac.

Notable mention: the Apple TV app for macOS. Truly one of the worst experiences I've ever had on the desktop.

This is not the fault of the software engineers. This is the fault of the PM. They talk to the design team (which is totally incompetent) to come up with a story board. This storyboard then gets dumped into the laps of software engineers - "Go program this".

Can you imagine the reaction from Steve Jobs if he was alive? Owner of this product should be fired. Instantly.

This is also a result of "soft" culture in Silicon Valley. No harsh criticism, everything is positive and good. No dictators, no one telling them the truth, everyone is sailing along in happy path land. No one can exclaim "This is shit" because someone is going to get offended.

Are any of the music platforms iterating the music experience? Seems like so many of them are distracted by podcasts and clubhouse cloning. I can’t think of a significant new “organize music” or “listen to music” feature, thinks like playlists of albums, album tagging, etc.

It's not the worst, but doing anything network related is very slow. Apparently it's uses html5 in the browse section under the hood, not even a true native app.

the music player has problems even if you dont subscribe to "apple music", too.