Apple Music is the perfect representation of what Apple has become in my opinion. iTunes was a hugely influential, useful and well-made software. Apple Music is

Apple Music is the perfect representation of what Apple has become in my opinion. iTunes was a hugely influential, useful and well-made software. Apple Music is a poor imitation of its predecessor and somehow manages to be worse in every metric possible: performance, interface, user experience and even feature set. All that to access a shitty streaming service that is lackluster on so many levels. Starting by the fact they remove much more of the catalog than Spotify does and they even removed access to tracks I bought on the iTunes Store, which is completely bonkers to me. After 4 years on Apple Music, I just went back to Spotify, because not only are they significant benefits (don't lose everything if you want to cancel sub and works way better in more platforms) but the app itself is just better. It also starts streaming much faster on any connection, and even though I did like the Apple Music discovery playlist, Spotify is better at this game in many ways. In the end Apple Music perfectly illustrates the questionnable success of today's Apple stuff because they have a cult following buying anything they do even though they are not particularly features nor price competitive. By the way, the Spotify app lets you use your mobile as a remote for any running instance on your network, inside the same app, with the same playlist/track saving capabilities. But for some reason, Apple, who control the whole technology stack is stuck with a half assed remote app from iTunes vestige that cannot control Apple Music playlisting (only able to browse and play) and their overloaded (extremely busy full of useless crap irrelevant to the user) mobile app cannot do anything useful. I really don't understand how people can reason about with today's Apple prices, because they are clearly stuck in another era and sell subpar shitty products...