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I actually disagree that Apple should make it easier for you to physically use your phone whilst driving. If you need to change songs use Siri or better yet pull over.

And I also disagree that saying that Apple has given up on their "playlists" or that they are stagnant in content. There are many playlists within Apple Music: the auto generated ones e.g. Chill Mix which are refreshed once a week, the Beats1/Guest ones which are refreshed very often e.g. a few times a day and the ones littered through Browse which again are often updated once a week.

Which "playlists" are you referring to ?

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> I actually disagree that Apple should make it easier for you to physically use your phone whilst driving.

My college banned smoking on campus halfway through my studies. They removed every ashtray from campus. This lead to people littering cigarette butts everywhere.

There's actually still ash tray in airplane toilets for that reason. I think it's legally required for airplanes flying through the US to have ashtray in toilets although it's illegal to smoke in these same airplanes ^^

Arguing with a robot over spelling seems like it would be more distracting than hitting a button.

> Arguing with a robot over spelling seems like it would be more distracting than hitting a button.

The discussion preceding this comment is about navigational buttons, not selecting songs from a playlist. Siri will not argue with you when you simply request the “next song”.

> Okay, texting "Song"

> And I also disagree that saying that Apple has given up on their "playlists"

They don't update any of their playlists that often. For instance, their "new music" playlist gets updated once every week. TripleJ, the local ad-free radio station in Australia, updates their new-music playlist every day. There's so much (western) music being released throughout the world that I find it unfathomable that it takes Apple a week to filter out 25 songs.

I was with Google Music and they would have a new playlist (new music or otherwise) catered to my taste every morning.

Having the New Music playlist change every day sounds like a terrible idea. Personally I am not going through 25 new singles every day so I like having the time to appreciate what has been chosen.

If you want completely new music then look at the Radio section. They have full, hand-picked playlists which update at minimum 3x a day.

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