It seems unbelievable, but five years have passed since Waze, a collaborative map service acquired by Google, added the ability to link your application to Spotify this way you have the basic playback controls directly in the Waze interface. Thanks to this integration, which was subsequently adopted by other services, users can pause and resume playback and also move between songs without losing sight of the route.

That Spotaze was the first service this connection was made with Spotify is the most normal thing in the world, because it does It was and still is the most used streaming music service in the world. According to data from the fourth quarter of last year, its market share was 31%, followed by Apple Music with 15%, Amazon Music and Tencent Music by 13% and YouTube Music in fifth place with 8%.

however the situation has changed significantly in the years since the first integration. During this time, we have seen an increase in the number of users of other services, so we expected Waze to take further steps in this service and integrate them into the interface of its Android and iOS applications. Not that it would be a critical need, of course, otherwise it would have been resolved years ago, but it is a substantial improvement in terms of usability. Most notably, this has been the case, but so far Apple has always been dropped.

And the good news is that as Google blogs on, Waze has finally integrated Apple Music into its iOS application. There is no mention of its Android version in the short statement, which makes us think that Waze users who use Apple Music on Android terminals will not be able to use this integration, at least for a short time. admit that it’s something that surprises me.

This delay is even more surprising given that Waze is owned by Google and that its other map service, Google Maps, isI have had this integration for some time. On other occasions, Google used Waze to test features that subsequently jumped into Google Maps. It would be most interesting to know the reasons why the process was moving in the opposite direction on this occasion.