Apple Music’s features losing to Spotify (its biggest competitor).Instead, I had to manually look up my favorite artists’ tours on Google and track them myself or hope that I’m following all my artists’ social media accounts (I’m not).įor the product manager in me, I started to sense bigger problems for Apple’s Music app in three main areas: What was an innocent conversation planted a seed in my head that grew into an annoying, thorny plant that snaked its way around my brain over the next few weeks.įrom the music lover in me, I was annoyed that my music streaming service wasn’t displaying upcoming shows for me to easily find. Spotify shows me upcoming shows for the artists I listen to.” Me: “…” Oh wow, look who else is coming to town…” Me: “How are you seeing all of these? Did Ticketmaster send you a list of upcoming concerts or something?” Her: “Nope. We need to plan out our upcoming concerts soon.” Her: “Yep. They’ll both be in Dallas next year.” Me: “Fantastic. Her: “Oh hey, Wolf Alice and Gang of Youths are going on tour soon. One afternoon a few weeks ago, we had a conversation that went like this: We have a few bands we both absolutely adore. That is, until I discovered Apple Music had been missing something big this whole time. For the past several years, I’ve loved the experience. I was one of those users in the Apple ecosystem that Apple was easily able to onboard onto Apple Music since they already owned the rest of my digital life, easily stealing me away from the likes of Spotify and Google Play. Being the Apple fanboy that I am, when Apple Music introduced streaming at $10 per month, I signed up and never looked back. Some time ago, I chose Apple Music as my team in the music streaming wars. For me, music and the means through which I’m able to enjoy it are literally priceless. From Wolf Alice, Lorne Balfe and Kendrick Lamar to Bring Me the Horizon, Enter Shikari and Harry Styles, if it’s got a good beat, I can dig it (sorry country music, we have to agree to disagree).
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