In the article that I wrote yesterday In which I said how I would like Apple Music to be from iOS 10, I included some of the details that Mark Gurman had given us hours before. I also talked about other things, some of them that many users think, such as that Connect should be renewed or die. For me the reason why Connect It is not working is that artists have been using other means to communicate with fans for years (in fact, I have) such as Twitter or Facebook.
This afternoon, the same Gurman who gave us the first details about how Apple Music will be in iOS 10 has again given another detail, this one about Connect: the expression used by the young editor of 9to5mac is that Connect will be "degraded" in iOS 10. Instead of having its own section, when the application is redesigned, will appear in the "For you" tab, something that, without having seen it yet, does not seem like a very good idea either because I think that putting two tabs that currently do not offer clear information will not help the application to be as intuitive as expected with the change.
Connect will lose your tab in iOS 10
This move may be the first nail in Connect's grave and could make the new social network what many were saying and that I doubted less than a year ago: Connect it will be a Ping 2.0, or what is the same, a reissue of the failure that Apple reaped in its last attempt to launch a social network. But Apple doesn't like drastic moves, as long as they are to show they made a mistake, and so Connect will continue to be available on artist pages within Apple Music. On the one hand we can think "Well it will continue to work, right?", But what kind of feed Will it be Connect if we can't see all the movement in a chronology or Time Line?
Reading Gurman's words, I have remembered that episode of the Simpsons in which they are going to do an inspection at the nuclear power plant where Homer works and the dumber ones are hiding in a room, supposedly watching over a wasp (something they don't do either all right). Most likely, Connect will have (even) less prominence in iOS 10 and the intention of Apple is to put it in a place where it does not disturb too much. And if there is no major change, which seems unlikely, will go away sooner rather than later. If it ends up disappearing, I think no one will miss it.
