this is the right answer. Feels like a lot of “but we have RCS!” talk but if you pull on that thread even for a seconds it’s still a total mess.
iMessage and Lighting are/were great examples of the value you could get by letting the company that makes your phone, develop messaging and proprietary ports. Until USB-C became more prevalent, the Lightning port was miles ahead of USB-A or micro-USB. iMessage was also miles ahead of any messaging platform. Miles. Ahead.
We’re im a shifting point now though where universal standards have caught up are catching up, so those arguments became a little thinner.
With that in mind… iMessage still has an operational edge still because it is so un-fragmented.
Even if RCS became a standard tomorrow on all Androids, the exact fragmentation that makes Android customizable, will slow its ability to ever be as streamlined as iMessage. Plus, I’d rather my shit go through Apple’s servers than Google’s if you’re gonna give me the choice. And I say that as a decade long Android user and former Pixel user.
like many things, it depends. If you live and die by letting Spotify choose your music based on your listening, then yes, Spotify is better at that.
but if you just want a simple music player that isn’t also trying to shoehorn in podcast or other things, that just plays music for you, and that offers, lossless quality, AM for the win.
I had three months of Apple Music free when I was a Spotify user and so out of boredom I gave it a shot and at the end of the three months canceled my Spotify. I could give a shit about my Spotify wrapped sharing thing, and two things really started to annoy me about Spotify. the first was the way I had to look at artists if I just wanted to peruse. It made me look at either all the artists i “followed” (which is not really related to what you might have in your library in anyway) or it would represent an artist entire library to me instead of just the ones I had downloaded. and the second one was the frequency at which I would have downloaded music that wouldn’t play because something in the app made it so when I clicked on say, Nirvana, it would reach out to the Internet to show me nirvana’s sort of my space, splash page, and when there was no service would say give me an error about no service… even though I would have three albums “downloaded.” this is the thing that happened beyond just a single bug, because I used Spotify for probably a decade.
annnnyway, I made the switch, and I think Apple Music is way better experience on mobile AND they have a lot more music. The desktop app is still just a skin version of iTunes that looks like it’s from 2001 and I am completely fucking baffled that they haven’t redesigned it, but it’s nothing worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater for