One service has far better sound quality, great curated playlists, and is integrated into iOS and Mac OS.
One service has Joe Rogan.
The priorities of Apple Music won me over.
I don’t know. I’ve been a die hard iTunes guy for a long time. When Apple Music first came out, it was a mess. It’s much better now, but still has issues. Just buying a song vs streaming it should not be so quirky at this stage. I like the Apple app design aesthetic better but the curation has been a miss.
Objectively, Spotify has done a great job of keeping everything very intuitive and simple whereas Apple Music has sort of lost the apple simplicity.
Give me Apples aesthetic and catalog and Spotify user experience snd it would be perfect. As it is now though, The UX of Spotify makes it far easier to enjoy.
Had Apple Music since launch - put up with the early mess and lingering quirks because I wanted to support it. But after using Spotify later on, I was struck by just how much more apple-like the Spotify experience was and is.
What apple did to revamp Apple Music to be useable as it is now, they need to do another round to make everything dead simple. You shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to do anything, no matter if it’s a very common operation or not.
While they may come out even on paper-or perhaps and edge to Apple Music, it’s a totally different experience IRL. Daily living with Spotify is far easier and more enjoyable. It pretty much gets out of your way so you can do what you wanted to start-enjoy content.
Spotify wins this one. For now. It has most everything Apple Music does and just plain executes better.
Also, if I had to choose between joe Rohan’s podcast and dr. Dre’s podcast, I’d probably learn something listening to Rohan vs having further brain death listening to Dre. Not the greatest comparison there.
Rohan has a huge built-in ideological bias. Hopefully that’s what you’re thinking you’ll learn when listening to him.
Everyone has an ideological bias or worldview.
It’s what you do with new info along the journey of life that matters.
Sometimes that bias is challenged and you learn and adapt. Other times you get confronted with something that proves you wrong snd you put your head in the sand. I try to do the former.
And I’m no fan of Rogan, though he’s surprised me quite a bit with how much he’s able to go into detail on complex subjects that matter with people who are “experts on said subjects - and more than hold his own. He’s got something special. Just because he doesn’t toe the liberal line doesn’t make him wrong or a bad guy - especially considering how many lied are being exposed from our government and media over the last couple of years.
Again, comparing that with the stuff Dr. Dre was saying… if a had to choose between them, I’d choose Rogan out of the two.
And that was the point.
I didn’t know Dr. Dre even had a podcast, but then again who doesn’t? If anyone listens to either of those beyond the occasional curiosity, I feel sorry for them. So many better and more deserving podcasts out there that didn’t sell out and aren’t behind a paywall.
What is missing in this Apple propaganda piece is;
- UX/UI comparison - integrations (e.g car brands like Tesla) - algorithms (curated / automated recommendations)
Spotify is much better in the above, having both AM and Spotify subscriptions.
Only annoying part is Spotify not willing to integrate with Siri/HomePod.
Lossless is nice but only beneficial when you have high-end audio equipment from source to speaker. Current compression algorithms are extremely effective and it’s hard to tell the difference otherwise.
If you’re into Tesla, I hear Elon will give you a horse if you blow him. Personally, I find the lack of CarPlay integration good enough reason to decline the offer, although I find horses to be majestic creatures. I actually had a horse named after me back when I was a kid.
UI/UX and algorithm comparisons are going to be subjective and based on taste, so I don’t know how useful that is. Apple Music app certainly has curated and automated recommendations, anyone saying one is way better than the other in that sense is just showing their bias.
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UI/UX and algorithm comparisons are going to be subjective and based on taste, so I don’t know how useful that is. Apple Music app certainly has curated and automated recommendations, anyone saying one is way better than the other in that sense is just showing their bias.