Personally, I’ll admit I was kind of blah on the idea but after 2 days of using the service, I’m smitten. Maybe my expectations aren’t very high but it was cool to listen to old Death Cult, Mad Professor, and MC 900 Ft. Jesus tracks on a whim yesterday.
Sure, other services offer the same but I’m one of those rare people who likes using iTunes. It’s nice to have everything in my go-to music app. Also, I’m only on day two, but I’ve also found the curated playlists seem to improve the more I listen.
I’ll probably sign on after my trial ends. I’m also looking forward to T-Mobile adding Apple Music to their Music Freedom service.
Last weekend I attended EdgeConf, a conference populated by many of the leading lights in the web industry. It featured panel talks and breakout sessions with a focus on technologies that are just now starting to emerge in browsers, so there was a lot of lively discussion around Service Worker, Web Components, Shadow DOM, Web Manifests, and more.
EdgeConf’s hundred-odd attendees were truly the heavy hitters of the web community. The average Twitter follower count in any given room was probably in the thousands, and all the major browser vendors were represented ? Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera. So we had lots of fun peppering them with questions about when they might release such-and-such API.
There was one company not in attendance, though, and they served as the proverbial elephant in the room that no one wanted to discuss. I heard them referred to cagily as “a company in California”…
Jimmy Smutek 