Cupertino is challenged on Apple Watch sales, Apple Music reliability

This week, Apple announced its latest sales numbers. Here’s what made news this week:

Turning against Apple Music, sort of

Jim Dalrymple is one of the most influential Apple bloggers on the planet. Therefore, when the Loop Insight founder speaks, people tend to listen. This week, Dalrymple did the unthinkable: he criticized an Apple product. In this case, he lambasted the month-old Apple Music service for deleting some of his tracks.

According to Dalrymple:

I love Apple. I love them because they take difficult problems and come up with innovative, simple solutions. The things they make just work and we trust them. Unfortunately, my experience with Apple Music has been exactly the opposite. As of today, I’m missing about 4,700 songs from my library with little hope of getting them back.

Later in the week (and after a visit to Apple), Dalrymple noted that 99 percent of his music was recovered. Nonetheless, he admitted that he’s still trying to get his “head around how (Apple Music) works.” He concludes, “I still have no idea what happened to the other songs, for sure.”

Like many, I use Apple Music every day. While I haven’t experienced the problems Dalrymple has, I have noticed some weird quirks with the service. These have included missing downloads, incomplete albums, and more.

Hopefully, Cupertino will figure things out and listen to folks like Dalrymple, someone who obviously wants Apple Music to succeed. And do so before the three-month Apple Music trial concludes this fall.

New AppAdvice website launches, new app coming

You’re reading this post on our new website, which finally exited beta this week. And this is only the first part of our transformation. Our long-awaited AppAdvice app update is about to drop too. Stay tuned.

Eight other top news stories

Here are other tech stories that made news during the past week:

Cupertino’s big quarter left many unhappy
How many Apple Watches were sold last quarter?
AT&T sticks it to customers by adding new fees
Starbucks lines up partnerships with Lyft and The New York Times.
Apple’s iOS 9, OS X El Capitan development process gets closer to completion
New enterprise apps arrive from IBM and Apple
Jet launches to bring down Amazon
The NFL announces a strange, new streaming package for Apple TV

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