After having used a large number of names for their streaming music service, it seems that with YouTube Music, Google has come up with the definitive name in his commitment to streaming music. As Play Music continues to disintegrate, YouTube Music continues to add new features and expand its availability in other ecosystems.
The latest news related to Google applications on mobile platforms, we find it in the launch for watchOS (the Apple Watch operating system) of an application to manage the YouTube Music application, an app is currently unavailable on Wear OS, Google's operating system for smart watches.
With the latest update to the YouTube Music app, Google has once again confirmed that the iOS platform it is usually a priority when launching new functionalities.
This latest move can be understood due to how popular the Apple Watch is among iPhone users. However, if you want Wear OS to stop being a smartwatch platform with a very small market share, you should focus on it to offer a differentiating appeal with the rest such as Tizen OS or watchOS without going any further.
The YouTube Music app for watchOS allows manage application playback directly from your wrist, without having to open the application at any time. In addition, it integrates a complication that we can place in the sphere that we usually use and that allows us to play a list of songs with a single touch.
To be able to use the application from the Apple Watch, the only requirement, in addition to the device being managed by watchOS 6 or higher, is that the user have a subscription to the music streaming service YouTube, since otherwise, the application will not allow us to access all its features.
