A few days ago, Canonical outed the beta version of its Ubuntu One Music app for Android. It's nascent, to say the least -- lacking things we've come to expect from music players like album artwork and playlists. Now Ubuntu One Music has arrived in App Store -- and the iOS experience looks every bit as Spartan.
And by that, I mean I'd like to kick it down a hole. But seriously -- the interface is very basic, and the plain black-and-white screenshots in the App Store aren't very exciting. On top of that, there's no mention of the fact that a subscription is required to use U1 Music (not on the snippet page -- as pointed out in the comments, it's in the 'more info' section) .The iTunes listing merely states, "Ubuntu One Music streams your entire music library from your Ubuntu One personal cloud to your iPhone. Listen your music wherever you are or wherever you're going."
And by that, I mean I'd like to kick it down a hole. But seriously -- the interface is very basic, and the plain black-and-white screenshots in the App Store aren't very exciting. On top of that, there's no mention of the fact that a subscription is required to use U1 Music (not on the snippet page -- as pointed out in the comments, it's in the 'more info' section) .
Want to access the music in your free 2GB Ubuntu One storage? That'll be $3.99, please. Otherwise you'll be greeted with the same screen I saw (image after the break).
That fee seems a bit steep for the ability to stream music to my iPod touch, especially when there are plenty of other options which allow me to do it for free (like Zumocast) -- though admittedly there are probably fewer options available to Linux users than those of us on Windows or Mac systems.
Maybe I'm being too picky, but I think this is the kind of thing you might want to mention to users before they download your app.
Ubuntu One Music for iOS arrives in the App Store originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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