In the iOS 10 Apple Music redesign, the Connect feature will follow Ping’s lead and will be demoted. Apple Music Connect currently exists as its own tab across the Apple Music interface, but multiple sources say that the feature will lose its tab and become integrated into the “For You” recommendations page.
I do hope this is true. Connect is the most useless thing since Ping. However, I hope that “integrated” into For You doesn’t mean that it will be mixed in with my recommendations—that would completely ruin the For You tab for me. Just kill Connect and be done with it.
I’d leave the tab and since all artists use Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter why not have a feed of those sources filtered by artists you follow?
The Connect tab is like Apple is hosting a party and walks up to you and says, “Hey, Listener, this is Artist. He’s from a town near where you went to school! You guys should have a lot to talk about. Well, I have to go mingle, but you guys talk! Meet each other!” And you’re all “Some party.” And Artist is all “Uh huh… Hey, Other person! Excuse me.” and walks away.
Exactly. Rather than trying to create their own social network and failing miserably (I would argue that Connect is even worse than Ping), they should just integrate existing social media where artists are already posting a ton. iOS already has deals and system wide integration with FB and Twitter. It made absolutely no sense for Apple to take another stab at a social network. Dave Wiskus describing Connect as a bulletin board is true. Its so barebones and minimal in functionality that its hard to even call it a social network. And if the process to post things on Connect truly is as bad as Wiskus described, then someone at Apple needs to be fired.
It was obviously rushed, and part of that was due to the attitude and culture Steve created in regards to streaming music. Everyone always wants to blame Cook or Cue for Apple Musics failings, but I think a large part of it was having to rush so fast past the culture of turning their nose up at streaming music, which Steve created. “People don’t want to rent music, they want to own their music.” Pretty sure those exact words came from Steves mouth. And he refused to acknowledge the trend when it was blatantly obvious after Spotify.
You can remove it yourself just go to restrictions in settings and you can turn it off
Anything Apple says is subject to change based on what’s occurring in real time on the ground. The future is streaming so Apple’s going to do streaming. Apple releases the iPad? They are going to sell you books regardless of what SJ said about people not reading anymore.
All the software Apple makes is rushed at this point. They have their fingers in a lot of pies. The exception is something like Apple Pay that they recognize has to leave the door rock solid and is integrated with hardware that would need to be planned far in advance of release. If they screw up something like Apple Pay then you should really worry.
Other things like Apple Music can be improved as they go and as are warranted by circumstances which is to say if something like Apple Music is getting sign ups it will get attention.
Hate Connect, along with so many other oddities in iTunes 12.3.3…
For You is about as useless as a late night infomercial too. Too bad iTunes algorithm can’t successfully determine what new music i should like based on my ratings. I get so many fucked up suggestions. Fuck you Jimmy and Eddie!
I’m shocked by the passion with which some people criticize Apple Music. It’s a good solid product. The “connect” feature is a great example. I mean wtf? Is it that hard to avoid? Don’t click on it.
And why are people still using iTunes (and complaining about it)? Is it because their good speakers are attached to their Macs? Everything from iTunes can be managed better from your iPhone. I can’t remember the last time I opened iTunes.
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I’ve thought of it before, and Alex Lindsay from PixelCorp has mentioned it also, that Connect should be replaced with user-curated playlists that other users can subscribe to. The kicker would be that users get a small percentage of sales or plays generated through their lists. The percentage could be applied to the subscription fee.
I thought it could be possible to allow users to record talk for between songs, thereby allowing people to make little music shows/podcasts. Really popular ones could draw a lot of listeners and therefore, hopefully, more income for artists (but more for Warner Music and the like, unfortunately) and allow listeners to subsidize their subscription fees some.
I suppose there would have to be a way to make sure the feature isn’t spammed by bot-created lists.
Playlist management and tag correction are respectively inferior and AFAIK literally impossible on iOS (at least without third party software which my initial research suggests is horrible).
Buying and playing music, sure.