The most interesting thing about this is that Apple's pre-announcing that they're going to be launching a dedicated classical music app. Presumably it'll be ver

The most interesting thing about this is that Apple's pre-announcing that they're going to be launching a dedicated classical music app. Presumably it'll be very closely based on the current Primephonic app, and worked on by the same developers. This has some close parallels to Apple buying Workflow and turning it into their now-platform-standard Shortcuts app. It's still being worked on by the original developers, too. Shortcuts has been given fairly high priority in all Apple's recent OS releases, particularly as it ties into their home automation ecosystem, and it's resulted in surprising bursts of popularity. E.g. last years "#aesthetic" complete-homescreen-customization boom was entirely based on using Shortcuts as a hack to customize app icons. It's been honestly weird to see such a relatively high profile part of the OS being run as a mostly-independent subsidiary like that, particularly given Apple's notorious control-freak ways. Them expanding the approach like this rather than just cramming it into Music suggests that they think it's working well for them...