Apple Music on the web is no longer in beta -- including on Linux:
Yes, starting today, you can simply visit https://music.apple.com/ rather than https://beta.music.apple.com/. All mentions of the word "beta" are gone, signaling it is no longer in a testing phase. This isn't just on Linux, but Windows and Mac too. Since many users of those operating systems despise iTunes, it is big news for them too -- Apple Music without the bloated iTunes!
Truth be told, I found Apple Music to be flawless while in beta when using Firefox on Ubuntu, but it is good to know that Apple is taking the web version seriously and won't be abandoning it any time soon. Quite frankly, it is refreshing that the company hasn't tried to block Linux users by detecting the user agent.
See also: The Web-based version of Apple Music has officially launched
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Saturday April 18 2020, @08:46PM (7 children)
I've always found Apple real two-faced. Shamelessly use and exploit free software, while making their own garden as tightly and highly walled as they can. OS-X is a modified FreeBSD.
I used an Apple II. Nice though it was, I switched to the PC when the MacIntosh replaced the IIs. It was an easy decision. PCs were far more popular, and far cheaper. And, with that move, Apple fired their original customer base, dumping the hackers and tinkerers, basically telling us that they like lusers better. Sure wish the Amiga had taken off, but Commodore was even worse about keeping iron-fisted control of everything, if that can be believed.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Saturday April 18 2020, @09:14PM (1 child)
The game was always doomed to end that way.
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(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2020, @12:20AM
What happened barbara hudson? Did you shoot your mouth off only to have it slammed shut by APK https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33430&page=1&cid=889582#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] ? Yes. Go AWAY "TraNsTesTiCuLaR MONSTROSITY". Did you really think apk apologized to you (no you posted that yourself by anonymous impersonating him) https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?cid=937346&sid=35327 [soylentnews.org] ? No but you try to deceive others with it that he did. You only fool yourself just like you do in your delusion you are a real woman. You're not. You're a clearly insane male dosed on estrogen to give you bitch tits, nothing more.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday April 18 2020, @09:24PM (3 children)
And it's also the proof that the GPL guys were right about BSD licensing.
Lovely idea in a perfect world, suicidal in this one.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @10:04PM
Suicide in what way, to whom?
(Score: 4, Informative) by epitaxial on Sunday April 19 2020, @02:15AM (1 child)
So why would the FreeBSD people be upset that Apple used their code within the rights granted to them? The only people who seem to raise an issue about the license are the GPL zealots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @05:25PM
bsd license is a whore's license.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 18 2020, @09:58PM
You are senile.
First of all, Apple II/Wozniak era is 40+ years ago.
Second. IBM PC costed way more than even the Apple's, because it's IBM, you know, the real computer company.
Third, "IBM PCs" wouldn't have become what it did if it wasn't for all the "compatible" machines. And who gets the credit for that?
Microsoft and the Phoenix outfit that recreated the BIOS.
But forget all that. On the chip side, ARM (and them qualcom cocksuckers) are going after Intel/AMD. On the software side...
Software is garbage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2020, @01:56AM (1 child)
Why?
JFC... WHY?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday April 19 2020, @02:36AM
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday April 19 2020, @05:47AM
I have already pulled Grandpa's finger, and I know what he will do.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by AlwaysNever on Sunday April 19 2020, @09:50AM (4 children)
I must be an old fag, but I don't pull my music from officially-sactioned, data-mining, on-line services. So this Apple music thing a clone of Spotify, or what?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2020, @12:43PM
I'm confused.
If you "don't pull [your] music from officially-sactioned[sic], data-mining, on-line services" wouldn't that make you straight?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2020, @04:04PM (2 children)
I just visited, it is a website that charges $10 a month for Globalhomo propaganda. There's some WHO and Lady Gaga thing tagged "Global Citizen" because todays witless corporatist believes organizations headed by Marxist terrorists [fromthetrenchesworldreport.com] are cool. Scroll down and there's that attention seeking narcissist [meaww.com] famous for pretending he doesn't know what gender he is. 100% pure cringe concentrate for psychopaths - run for the hills!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @12:22AM
I don't know WTF you're talking about. Just "blah blah blah" incoherency.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @05:27PM
right. what kind of stupid bitch buys music from apple.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday April 21 2020, @06:51PM
I'll stick with my MP3 collection, thanks.
And when the next Great Depression does finally strike (if we aren't going there now with COVID as the straw...) and all the Apple Music folks have to dump their subscriptions because they'd rather eat.... I'll still be listening to mine, thanks.
Now you don't have to get off my lawn, but I will collect rent starting now.
This sig for rent.