linkman

Rayz2016 said:

So, a billion streams. 

How much, roughly, would he earn earn from that?

Assuming that the report means one billion songs streamed and not one billion full album streams, then around $5.8 million USD was paid by the streaming services. Since we don't know how many streams per service and we don't know for certain the payouts for each service this is definitely a rough number. A big question mark is how much Drake gets of that because that money gets split further between the record label, publishers, rights holders, songwriters, etc.

My simplified math: Spotify at $0.00380/song, AM at $0.00783/song, and 500M each for just these two services. If a significant number of plays are coming from a stingy payer such as Youtube or Pandora then it'll drag the amount down and conversely go up with bigger payers such as Tidal. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/01/16/streaming-music-services-pay-2018/

So Windows 7, which was first released in 2009 and lost mainstream support in 2015, still gets extended support from Microsoft and Apple iTunes. Hmmm...

The term crappy for these cable boxes is 100% spot-on. My previous box, some pretty small Cisco thing, existed only to convert a coax scrambled connection to HDMI, change the channel, mute, and burn a lot of electricity. The entire top was a vented grill and used as much electricity when off as when it was on. I think turning it off using the remote only muted the video/audio output and turned the LED from green to red.

My neighbor went through the nightmare of the CableCard with his DVR. He literally had a tech from the cable company at his house every 2-3 weeks for several hours each time it stopped working. He gave up on it after more than a year of fighting it.

Big difference between iOS and Android here -- the last 3 major versions of Android have a whopping 55.6% install base combined.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

uktechie said:

linkman said:

uktechie said:

Surely a better option would be to show a dialogue box warning that, “the battery can no longer deliver peak current and the performance may be impacted until a new battery is fitted”. This should also be reflected in the battery health information - I understand there is currently no indication of this problem at all. 

RTM

If RTM means Read The Manual there is nothing in the iOS 11 manual nor in the iOS 11 settings to indicate that an iPhone is running slow due to a battery issue.

Yes it does. Once you get throttled it will show a notification pointing to Settings > Battery. In there it will show “Your iPhone battery may need to be serviced.” Click on the "learn more" and the nicely written informational page shows "In the meantime, you might notice longer app launch times, lower frame rates while scrolling, and other reductions in performance."

I don't know how Apple can make this any clearer. But I imagine they could make it more obvious with dancing hamsters that require user interaction. For those that ignore the circled red numbers on their home screen icons and never go to settings -- they will not see it.