Apple Music and its policy of locking users into the service
Why does Apple Music simply delete our library structure when we cancel the subscription?
I'm not claiming access to the songs but only the possibility to save the structure of the library, the information about the songs we favourited, the playlists we created and what songs we put in each of them, etc. Spotify offers that even for its unpaid users!
I know Apple is not required to do that but, come on, we are talking about Apple! The biggest and richest company in the world. The company that always treated its customers better than any other (at least it used to be like that). What's the point of saving this data (just a handful of kb)? Space? We have iCloud Drive. Save there! Or allow us to download some type of file with this data and upload it when we subscribe again. Solutions abound.
But if Apple does that just to tie us to the service, the company has really changed. Customers can transit between all services and companies they want, without losing their own data. The data they created themselves. Songs don't belong to them but the information about what songs they liked or gather into playlists (created by them) belongs!
Apple recently acused Meta of "hypocrisy" because the tax it's going to charge for metaverse developers.
Apple complained about Spotify years ago for not allowing (at that time) the transfer of playlists to Apple Music, rightly claiming that they were preventing the customers' right to mobility.
Now Apple doesn't allow us to save our personal data. I'm sorry but Apple is being as hipocritical as any other.
Please fix it.
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