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True. I would love to have less features in MacOS actually. We are approaching Windows start menu level of crap being installed by default.

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The fact Apple Music has notifications advertising it on my lock screen, or splash screens advertising it once a month when I open Music.app would have been unthinkable pre-Tim Cook.

As a user it feels disrespectful to be so overtly treated as an untapped revenue stream for a premium-price product. It's Samsung-esque.

None of my Samsung phones have ever advertised anything to me. Unlike iOS,there are any number of music player apps on Android that stay out of the way and don't try to be a "platform".

> None of my Samsung phones have ever advertised anything to me.

I had a Galaxy S8. It definitely did.

> Unlike iOS,there are any number of music player apps on Android that stay out of the way and don't try to be a "platform".

iOS has other music players too. It was a choice that e.g. doubleTwist stopped supporting iOS when pivoting to CloudPlayer.

Galaxy S8 came out in 2017, almost a decade ago. I understand some budget and mid-range phones have ads, but I (in Canada) have used everything from S7, S8, S12, A51, Z Fold 3, and have never gotten one. There was a "Samsung Hub" app on the midrange A51 (similar to Google Discover), but that can be disabled.

You have never been encouraged to use Bixby or any other Samsung app?

Let’s define “ad”.

Please for the love of everything, go in Settings and turn it off.

https://www.howtoisolve.com/how-to-turn-off-or-disable-apple...

Yeah people repeat advice like this but have no idea it makes no difference and even in search it defaults to "Apple Music" but shows no results even when that slider is turned off.

It used to work in the first few versions of Music.app but broke about 2 years ago and has never fully disabled it ever since.

You’re wrong. It displays Apple Music, then when you search it only pulls data from what it has access to, which are the free radio stations inside Apple Music.

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