Your Product Sucks — Apple Music macOS review

Your Product Sucks
6 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2020–2024
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39K views · 6 years ago · essay · dated

A comedic Your Product Sucks review of Apple's Apple Music app on macOS, picking apart its interface and usability problems. It is a critique in the style of a mock-professional product review.

HN people share it for its schadenfreude as evidence that modern Apple software is poorly designed, and cite it whenever Apple Music comes up.

“Enjoy the schadenfreude of this recent Apple Music for macOS review”
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@CharlesW2021 · in “Why Software Jewels Are Rare (1996) [pdf]”
Assuming you mean Apple Music (iTunes was an okay MP3 player/ripper, but is dead), I consider it the exception that proves the rule. Enjoy the schadenfreude of this recent Apple Music for macOS review: ▶ this video
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@CharlesW2021 · in “Your Product Sucks: Apple Music on macOS Review”
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@ra88it2021 · in “Your Product Sucks – Apple Music macOS Review”
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@tiagoleifert2021 · in “Your Product Sucks - Apple Music macOS review [video]”
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@dmart2020 · in “Your Product Sucks – Apple Music macOS Review”
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@donatj2020 · in “Review of Modern Apple UI – Your Product Sucks – Apple Music macOS Review”
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@dmitriid2020 · in “A professional, fair and balanced video review of Apple Music on macOS”
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@freetonik2024 · in “I Don't Have Spotify”
Apple Music has been utterly awful on desktop for years, with virtually zero positive progress. I made this angry video [1] 4 years ago, and have tried using Apple Music multiple times since then, and it never failed to disappoint. 1. ▶ this video
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@dmitriid2021 · in “Thoughts on Clojure UI framework”
Like it's broken beyond all recognition and hope with all interactions and expectations of a native app just gone. See this review: ▶ this video
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@fluxem2021 · in “Apple Reports Third Quarter Results”
"unique style of content" is a strange way to describe a lackluster library. It doesn't even seem to be improving. There is not a lot of new content compared to 6 month ago (when I first checked). Unless you're very into one of few shows, it's not worth it. And it's not me speaking. They offer 1 year free trial! Who does this? I have't tried other services, so I cannot comment. Although, Apple Music seems to be a disaster: ▶ this video
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@dmitriid2021 · in “How Intuitive Are Macs Really?”
In the past few years Apple has dropped the ball on HIG and MacOS. Here's AppStore mini-review: link "Get 15 people, put them in 15 different offices with no communication between them, set them to work on one feature at a time. You will get something very similar to the App Store." Here's Apple Music review (spoiler: swearing): ▶ this video
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