How time flies considering the progress of Apple's venture into music streaming. November 2015, witnessed Apple released its music streaming service for Android phones as a beta. 9 months later, the app is now official a version 1.0. It boast of an average rating of 3.3 stars on the Play Store.
When Apple launched the Android beta of Apple Music, the company promised a full native app with everything you’d expect from a modern Android app.
Apple Music simply features a homescreen widget, which allows you save songs on a microSD and more. On this front, when you compare this philosophy against Google’s design philosophy, Apple wins — Google Maps, Gmail or YouTube look out of place on an iPhone as they look like Android apps.
Being on Android is key to Apple’s strategy when it comes to music. Apple knows well that it isn’t just competing with good old MP3 files. The company is competing with heavyweight music streaming giants, such as Spotify, Soundcloud, Google Play Music and, yes, even YouTube. All these services are available on iOS and Android.
Ratings from the Play Store indicates the app is faced with some challenges which includes; the app is still crippled with bugs, music doesn’t play, downloaded songs get randomly removed and the app crashes a lot.
This simply implies, there is still a lot of work to be done the Android app. If Apple wants to release other apps on Android the company still needs to step up its Android game.
Apple projects big hopes for Apple Music. The service launched with a generous 3-month free trial in June 2015 with the promise that its human-curated playlists would make you discover a lot of new music. For example, the company signed an exclusive deal with Taylor Swift, paving the way for other major exclusives — Britney Spears’ new album was also just launched exclusively on Apple Music.
The company already has 15 million subscribers, and its stepping up preparation in getting a complete redesign for Music app on iOS 10.
It’s unclear whether the Apple Music app on Android will receive a similar redesign when iOS 10 launches this fall. For now, Apple has added an equalizer on Android as not all Android phones let you play with the equalizer in the phone settings.
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