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> Apple Music has a web UI and Android app

This is exactly what I'm referring to. I put up with Apple's website for more than a year as my primary casual-use computer became a Windows PC.

I work on iOS apps for a living. App Store Connect has always been terrible. Bugs linger for years. Elements continue to break in unexpected ways. The place where developers receive feedback from Apple is still hard to find even though it's immensely important. The website received a major redesign a few years ago and the bugs were still there!

Now apply that lack of care to a music website. Being forced to login daily. Asked to perform 2FA daily, so I need to keep my iPhone near me if I expect to play music. Songs inexplicably not playing, if play fails repeatedly, maybe a page refresh will work. Songs inexplicably only playing previews, forcing you to log out and log back in. Zero effort to restore your previous searches.

Apple makes attempts at providing services on the web. But for those of us attempting to use those services, the experience varies from subpar to outright hostile.

> Keychain is being made compatible with Windows Chrome

Again, see how people review this in this very thread.

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Simply providing the service does not mean it's good. That's what I mean by "institutional" and "organizational". They half- or quarter-ass what they ship, and then they leave it to rot.



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