Apple Music is, as I have said on previous occasions, one of my favorite streaming music services, and I would bet my life that it is the one I use the most. There are several reasons for this, but to avoid going on forever listing them, I will mention Hi-Fi quality in the standard subscription (remember that it was the first to take that step), the editorial quality of its playlists and, of course, that gem for classical music lovers that is Apple Music Classical.
Now, as I try to apply in practically everything, the fact that a service, a device or a brand is my preference does not push me to underestimate the rest. In addition to Apple Music, I also use Spotify Premium, Amazon Music (with the five-month free promotion that we told you about in June) and YouTube Music, the latter more frequently since I transferred my Google Podcasts subscriptions to it.
Each service has its pros and cons, but if there is something that everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees on, in addition to sharing at least 95% of the catalog (something that is appreciated, because the opposite would be a model as fragmented as that of film and series platforms), it is that Their main interest is to retain the userto prevent you from giving in to the temptation of switching to another service. And this is the most logical thing in the world, of course, since they depend on subscriptions (except in the case of free Spotify accounts) to sustain themselves.
This is precisely the reason why the latest move by those from Cupertino has been so surprising to me. And it is that, according to what we read and 9to5Google, Apple Music now lets you export user-created playlists to YouTube MusicThis, as I say, is surprising, since it is common and expected that each service offers functions in the opposite direction, that is, that it allows the transfer of lists created in its competitors to them.
In this sense, in fact, a few months ago we told you that Apple Music was testing the integration of SongShift, a service aimed at users of this type of platform who wish to make this type of movement. When we published this news, everything led us to think that it was preparing to facilitate the migration of third-party services to Apple’s, but now, seeing this, it seems that the intentions of those from Cupertino could be much more bidirectional than initially thought. And this is certainly a very positive thing and worth highlighting. However, given how tense the relationship between Apple and Spotify is, it remains to be seen whether they will enable a similar tool for “Spoti”.
