Apple Music for Android comes out of Beta with version 1.0
Over a year since Apple Music launched and almost a year since it’s app came to Android it’s finally out of beta with an official release app.
Apple’s surprisingly popular music streaming service, Apple Music, launched last June and has since seen incredible popularity. With a growing audience of keen users Apple eventually launched an Apple Music app for their rival smartphone OS Android. Now Apple Music’s app is out of beta and official on Android.
It may sound like a big deal but honestly it mostly looks and acts the same. Most of the biggest improvements have taken place since launching the app like bug fixes, performance improvements, certain Android-only features. One new feature with Apple Music version 1.0 is the ability to adjust your equaliser settings so you can tweak the sound of your music streaming on your Android phone with preset sounds or custom options.
The reason it’s taken Apple so long to take their Android app out of “in-progress” is surprisingly not out of spite, but because iOS and Android frameworks are very different and require to be tuned differently to work for each. Because of this difference there are some unique features on Android, like a home screen widget and the option to save offline music on an external SD card.
Whilst some thought Apple might stay away from the Android platform they’ve embraced it fairly enough. With the stakes as high as they currently are in music streaming it would have left Apple Music out of an entire mobile market where competitors like Spotify, Tidal and Deezer would’ve thrived.