Apple Music Replay’s Broken Record
The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame or remorse, it says “Go to site”.
You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes before it - are largely glorified markup viewers, but for whatever reason, the Music app still can’t display Apple Replay in the Apple Music app. Instead the user is shunted off to the web version of the Music app.
Not a big deal, right? Except you have to log in with your Apple ID in your web browser to see the web version of the app you were just in so you can look at text and images with CSS animation. Does the Music app not pass Acid3? For all the crap Apple, and its fans, level at Electron based apps we’re left with this native app’s sweet solution.
And, needless to say, the Web page is designed for mobile with sideways carousels.
It seems to be like something one could upload to a Stories, or other vertical video product to share, but there are no sharing controls in a desktop web browser at all, so you have to go to the site in Safari on iOS, to get a share icon to save a static PNG to send somewhere else. There’s something poetic about failing to do something social well and using the format pronounced “ping”.
Previously:
- The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
- Music to No One’s Ears
- Setting the Bozo Bit on Apple
- The Apple Services Experience Is Not Good Enough
- A Very Sweet Solution
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The genre I played the most being “Pop”? No way! I bet no one else has that!
Perfectly hilarious… and sad. I worry about program management at Apple. This could not have been made by people that dogfood and care.
"For all the crap Apple, and its fans, level at Electron based apps we’re left with this native app’s sweet solution."
✊🍆🍏, in the past:
"Electron is without question a scourge"
✊🍆🍏, more recently:
"Obsidian exemplifies the mindset of a proper power-user tool: it makes easy things easy, and hard things possible. Another way to think of Obsidian is like an IDE for your notes, thoughts, and ideas..."
...depends on who put the grease on his palm that day.
