Google Says Bug Caused Apple Music to Appear in Google Home App [Updated]

Apple Music's brief appearance in the Google Home app earlier this week was due to a software bug, a Google spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg.

Specifically, we've been told that the Google Assistant and Google Home apps share various settings for music services. Due to a bug, Google opened up the ‌Apple Music‌ setting more broadly than it intended, including to Google Home app users.

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In an earlier statement, a Google spokesperson said "‌Apple Music‌ is currently only available for Google Assistant users on mobile phones. We have nothing to announce regarding updates to Google Home."

Back in December, ‌Apple Music‌ became available on Amazon's range of Echo speakers, so there was hope that the service would be expanding to Google Home speakers too. Many other music services are available on Google Home, including Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, Google Play Music, and YouTube Music.

Of course, ‌Apple Music‌ could launch on Google Home eventually, and the two companies could be simply hiding their tracks.

‌Apple Music‌ is currently available on iOS, Android, Apple Watch, Apple TV, HomePod, and Amazon Echo and Sonos speakers. ‌Apple Music‌ can also be controlled with the Google Assistant app on iOS devices.

Top Rated Comments

cmaier Avatar
62 months ago
Yep. Someone tripped and knocked a cup of pens over onto the keyboard, and they just happened to edit the source code to add this functionality.
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
gwhizkids Avatar
62 months ago
Can you say "Google violated an NDA?" ;)
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
velocityg4 Avatar
62 months ago
('https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/27/apple-music-in-google-home-app-was-bug/')
In an earlier statement, a Google spokesperson said "Apple Music is currently only available for Google Assistant users on mobile phones. We have nothing to announce regarding updates to Google Home."
In other words someone let the cat out of the bag but they can't admit it.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
cmaier Avatar
62 months ago
Exactly.... someone got a few variables wrong and hey presto, accidentally coded an Apple Music service interface
One time I was writing a fart app, and I screwed up and accidentally coded an operating system. Was a real pain fixing that.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
mi7chy Avatar
62 months ago
Strange that Google bug adds useful features while Apple bug invades your privacy contrary to what people normally preach.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
busuan Avatar
62 months ago
Good bug...
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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