“Last year, when Apple launched its streaming service Apple Music, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon made his displeasure known in a series of barbed tweets,” Jazz Monroe reports for Pitchfork.
“‘Just literally wish that the humans who had the power, USED it to literally make things better,’ he wrote at one point,” Monroe reports.
Now Vernon has again tweeted his displeasure with Apple’s rapidly-growing Apple Music service:
apple went from being innovative, plug + play … the best way to experience music and file management to literally a horrid platform ….
— blobtower (@blobtower) July 1, 2016
they let the commercialization of apple music get in the way of making a product easy, simple, and beautiful to use. #neversyncagain
— blobtower (@blobtower) July 1, 2016
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Perhaps Justin missed WWDC 2016? Apple has begun to address his (and our) concerns:
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