It’s loopy to assume that we’re already solely about two months away from WWDC 2024. However right here we’re, and like everybody who will get hyped about this occasion, I can’t assist however dream about what Apple may need in retailer for us with iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and now visionOS.
Whereas there are many different desires I may discuss, there’s one dream that has adopted me via years of updates to macOS — and that dream is for the corporate to lastly abandon the design ethos of iTunes for good and launch a reimagined Apple Music app.
I’ve been an Apple Music consumer for years now. As a Spotify convert, I’ve seen the evolution of Apple Music because it launched again in 2015 to what it has develop into in the present day. The expertise has actually improved in a ton of the way, from navigation to design, in addition to a superior listening expertise with each Lossless Audio and Spatial Audio. The Animated Artwork on the Now Enjoying display can also be rather more lovely on Apple Music than what Spotify gives.
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I’d additionally argue that Apple Music’s iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV apps are superior to what Spotify gives on these gadgets. Nonetheless, there’s one gadget the place Spotify presently destroys Apple by way of a greater app: the Mac.
Apple Music is languishing on the Mac
This isn’t even attributable to Spotify making a fantastic Mac app for its music streaming app. Whereas the app has actually gone via some notable design updates and feels extra fashionable, Spotify’s mission to pack music, podcasts, and audiobooks into one super-app has, a minimum of for me, began to make the Mac app really feel a bit cluttered. They’ve additionally tried to work a few of the iPhone app’s redesign into the Mac app, making it really feel much more chaotic.
The place Spotify beats Apple Music on the Mac doesn’t should do with how good the Spotify app is however the truth that Spotify has a minimum of up to date the app in any respect. The Apple Music app on the Mac has felt just like the red-headed stepchild for the corporate — languishing with little consideration paid to it. In case you examine the Apple Music app on the Mac to the final model of the iTunes app, you received’t discover a ton of variations in the way you navigate or expertise your music.
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There’s a minimum of one different particular person on the planet who agrees with me. One consumer on Reddit posted final yr, “I don’t perceive how everybody appears to be effective with the UI on Mac. It’s a completely horrendous design to have my library appear like iTunes from the early 2000s whereas my playlist acquired the up to date fashionable look. Is there one thing I’m lacking as a result of I’ve not been capable of finding any point out of this?”
Agreed. Even this idea from years in the past from artist Juanjo Guevara seems like a notable replace because it a minimum of has some concepts on find out how to reimagine that left sidebar.
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Apple has made such nice strides with the music-listening expertise on the iPhone and the iPad that the Mac deserves some risk-taking as properly. Get nuts with it — go all-in on some dynamic widgets like Spotify is doing. In truth, simply copy what Spotify is doing at this level…to a degree. We don’t want litter, simply an app that resembles what Apple Music is in the present day fairly than what iTunes was.
No matter occurs, I simply need Apple to attempt one thing. I get it — the Mac might be one of many least-used gadgets in the case of music listening in comparison with the iPhone and iPad, however that doesn’t imply it doesn’t deserve some TLC! We’ll discover out for certain when Tim Cook dinner and the staff take the stage at WWDC 24 in June.