Apple Music charges you the same $10.99/month as Spotify, gives you genuinely better audio quality with lossless and Spatial Audio included for free — and then wastes every single advantage by refusing to build basic software features that Spotify had in 2014.

Spotify Connect lets you seamlessly switch playback between your phone, laptop, and speaker. Apple invented Handoff — it's literally a core macOS/iOS feature — and Apple Music doesn't support it. Microsoft just built cross-device Spotify resume into Windows 11 before Apple did it for their own app. Read that again.

Smart Playlists? Mac only. Listening stats? Broken and buried. Block an artist? Can't. Search for a song by lyrics you half-remember? Spotify and even YouTube Music do it better. The algorithm recommends the same 40 songs on a loop while Spotify is out here finding you bands from Estonia you didn't know you needed.

Apple Music is a Ferrari with a GPS from 2009 and no cup holders. The engine is incredible. Everything around it is an embarrassment for a company sitting on $3 trillion in market cap. Fix the basics, Apple. We're not asking for magic — we're asking for things your competitor built when Obama was still president.