Jony Ive does great hardware design, but if it is he who is directing the software user experience these days then it is a failure and he should step aside. Its like Jony handed over hardware design to Dr. Dre ;-(
I would bet some serious money this had to do with the streaming licensing agreements. The record labels have kinda regressed back towards DRM. In the case of streaming they do have a point. You certainly don’t want people downloading millions of tracks during the trial period and be able to keep them and not continue the subscription without paying.
I can't imagine any acceptable development process that allows such a regression in functionality in a release version. Someone was dead at the switch here.
You only have to look at almost all of the essential firmware updates for the PlayStation 3 or any of the previous eBay iOS app updates to see that this isn't an unusual practice.
Sometimes, things just get broken in the rewrite. At least Apple are going to add it again. That's the difference.
You only have to look at almost all of the essential firmware updates for the PlayStation 3 or any of the previous eBay iOS app updates to see that this isn't an unusual practice.
Sometimes, things just get broken in the rewrite. At least Apple are going to add it again. That's the difference.
This is almost assuredly not a case of "something broke in the re-write". It was removed deliberately and very possibly, as others have postulated, due to concerns that someone in a home-share situation might get something for which they didn't pay. Plus - it helps launch ?Music when you take away this popular option.
I agree that the feature needs work (mainly concerning large libraries) but given that I have no interest in ?Music, its removal really irritates me. I advocate for the Apple ecosystem because it is supposed to all just work together seamlessly. This is a step in the wrong direction.
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Maybe the fix is the Apple Music App coming back to the Mac?
In order to come back to the Mac, it would have had to be there previously...
UI/HI/IA =/= design/aesthetics
8.4 was a GM release...
It's 8.4 that removed Home Sharing, not 9 Beta. In other words, they fully released it.
Read the original post I replied to to get the context of what I said.
Incidentally if the HomeSharing isn't in the 8.4 release then it certainly wasn't in the 8.4 Public Beta so...
Home Sharing reinstated in iOS 9....along with the new Taylor Swift programming language...Eddy Cue shudders in fear
I would bet some serious money this had to do with the streaming licensing agreements. The record labels have kinda regressed back towards DRM. In the case of streaming they do have a point. You certainly don’t want people downloading millions of tracks during the trial period and be able to keep them and not continue the subscription without paying.
I can't imagine any acceptable development process that allows such a regression in functionality in a release version. Someone was dead at the switch here.
You only have to look at almost all of the essential firmware updates for the PlayStation 3 or any of the previous eBay iOS app updates to see that this isn't an unusual practice.
Sometimes, things just get broken in the rewrite. At least Apple are going to add it again. That's the difference.
I agree that the feature needs work (mainly concerning large libraries) but given that I have no interest in ?Music, its removal really irritates me. I advocate for the Apple ecosystem because it is supposed to all just work together seamlessly. This is a step in the wrong direction.
Cool, I can't wait to see what else they're going to take away iOS 9 and then add back later! /s