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The fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.
> We hate subscriptions as much as you do, so our business model is simple: Simplefax is a one-time purchase that costs as much as lunch in San Francisco. Is it possible to get lunch in SF for $10!?
Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places.
What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of RAM are struggling with a 20 year old music app?
I have a lot of complaints about the app but “slow” and “bloated” are not on that list. It’s just an outdated take.
It’s a pet peeve of mine to continually hear about how the Apple Music app is bloated. Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places. What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of R…
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OK there's a bunch of jellyfin clients tho. This is an Apple Music client. why you gotta drag somebody over this.
Why does it matter what the backend is? A music player is a music player; it shouldn't matter where the music comes from.
The fax app on their website is a great solution to having the ability to send a fax without subscribing to anything.
> We hate subscriptions as much as you do, so our business model is simple: Simplefax is a one-time purchase that costs as much as lunch in San Francisco. Is it possible to get lunch in SF for $10!?
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Why does it matter what the backend is? A music player is a music player; it shouldn't matter where the music comes from.
Well, it matters when you have to integrate with APIs and idiosyncrasies of third parties, and whatever draconian DRM they require. It’s obviously not impossible to add support for multiple backends, but from a development effort it definitely matters. It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but w…
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Well, it matters when you have to integrate with APIs and idiosyncrasies of third parties, and whatever draconian DRM they require. It’s obviously not impossible to add support for multiple backends, but from a development effort it definitely matters. It’s not like streaming platforms are gingerly implementing open and common standards for music streaming. Winamp had support for .m3u and streaming back in ‘04, but w…
Sure, but presumably that is different from the actual value of the app itself—the frontend. It's just a matter of effort to connect the interface to the backend. Why you'd insist on tying the two together is anyone's guess (likely convenience).
AKA the limited resource of developer-hours
It’s a pet peeve of mine to continually hear about how the Apple Music app is bloated. Apple literally reduced the bloat compared to the past. They removed podcast, TV/movie, and device management out of the app and moved them into dedicated places. What mythical person is struggling with the performance of Apple Music on an Apple Silicon Mac? The same Macs that can handle 4K Final Cut Pro video editing with 8GB of R…
It's not about the feature set. The Music app is the only software I use which randomly locks up my whole mac, just trying to do basic stuff like play a song or navigate albums. Doesn't seem to be related to whether I'm browsing Apple Music or my own library. This is on both my M1 MacBook Pro, and on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio in the office. It's baffling that something that worked so well in 2008 is such a dog in 2025.…