[wintermutestwin]

There is no way in hell that I am giving up on having instant access to 99.9% of all music, but I will say that Apple Music is infuriating in many ways. The desktop application is widely known to be crap, and, to the point of the article, my biggest frustration with the phone app is that 3 out of 5 icons along the bottom are dedicated to discovery. I don't want Apple to help me find music (that they likely get kick backs to promote).

[pavlov]

It is a sad, terrible irony that Apple whose resurgence began when they acquired the best desktop framework from NeXT and further developed it into a revolutionary mobile one, is now a company that’s famous for how bad their new desktop apps are (Music, new macOS Settings, everything made with Catalyst…)

[marcellus23]

Music is not any worse than iTunes was. And the new Settings app being bad is not exactly consensus — IMO the redesign was much-needed and well executed.

[nickthegreek]

iTunes is a pretty low bar to beat! I would generalize that apple has never gotten music right except for the iPod with that sweeet jog dial.

[marcellus23]

> iTunes is a pretty low bar to beat!

Fair enough, but beside the point — if Music is as good or better than iTunes was, it can hardly be an indictment of the quality of Apple's recent system software.

[adammarples]

I dunno if you can really call Apple famous for how bad the very recently updated macos settings app is. They were pretty famous before that and I don't think it's quite eclipsed them yet but I could be wrong.