Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good

Re:Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good by cm2187 on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:28PM (#11718101)

The iphone WAS so good. Now when I buy an iphone I have to go through 10 dialog boxes of nagging for Apple Pay, Apple Music, iCloud, etc, etc. And regularly, whether after a system update or a randomly, the nagging starts all over again. This is really annoying. At one point in the iphone music player, I would regularly be redirected to the apple music tab while trying to get to my playlists.

It's a race to the bottom between Apple and Microsoft. I omit Google as I do not really have any experience with their OS. Are they doing less nagging for their services?

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Re:Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good by josteink on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:04AM (#11720641)

> . I omit Google as I do not really have any experience with their OS. Are they doing less nagging for their services?

If you buy a (Nexus) Android device, the device comes preloaded with all the Google services and apps, but you are only nagged about two things:

1. log in with a Google Account (for Play Store, Gmail, Calendar and all the others), and 2. Opting in to Google Location services.

That's about it. What get's annoying though is if you for whatever reason ever need to factory reset your phone, you will have to go through various splash-screens and introduction pages in all the apps (Maps, Youtube, Photos, etc) again.

I'd say the nagging factor on Android (at least for the paid apps I use) are as close to zero you can get.

Compared to for instance Windows, it feels much better.

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Re:Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good by unlinker on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @05:52AM (#11720781)

Those splash screens are incredibly useless and annoying. I don't understand why somebody at Google gave the OK to them.

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Re:Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good by Nullabillity on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:28AM (#11721137)

Aside from the usual setup stuff (do you want to setup backups?) or when opening applications that obviously require an account to function (Play Store, for example), I haven't had any nagging on Android. Never had an update delete all my data, either.

That said, some of their stuff does require an account even when you think it isn't warranted, such as reading arbitrary PDFs through their Play Books app (though the Drive PDF reader works fine regardless).

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Re:Why Apple Music is So Bad When the iPhone is so Good by jefhwite on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @06:41PM (#11718203)

The nagging has gotten so bad. Even on desktop. I feel like I see less on Android, but it's been a while.

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