I have never owned a pair of Beats but my friends that have had nothing but problems. Sure they were under warranty but dropping hundreds of dollars on crap. I'd rather not. Bose please.
I have never owned a pair of Beats but my friends that have had nothing but problems. Sure they were under warranty but dropping hundreds of dollars on crap. I'd rather not. Bose please.
LOL, Bose is the Beats for old people. Overpriced crap that relies on marketing not quality. Any and I mean any audiophile site will confirm that. Companies like Sennheiser make quality products and also have a lot of IP protecting that. It seems Beats only has design type patents which are useless as trends change. All they did was use cheap Chinese OEM phones and added some bass and a big marketing campaign.
Beats were also valued at only around $1B less than a year ago. What happened in the last 12 months to add another $2B?
This is so sad to me. Apple ruining its brand to get some street cred from young hipsters.
The acquisition isn't about the headphones and speakers. Apple could snap up a thousand companies that do a solid job
with audio.
What you cannot find easily is a service with good music curation. I've tried them all. Spotify sucks, Rdio isn't much better. All the services let me listen to days and days of music but few really helped me discover new artists.
The acquisition isn't about the headphones and speakers. Apple could snap up a thousand companies that do a solid job
with audio.
What you cannot find easily is a service with good music curation. I've tried them all. Spotify sucks, Rdio isn't much better. All the services let me listen to days and days of music but few really helped me discover new artists.
That may very well be true but I find it hard to believe Beats which is a marketing/gimmicky type company reliant on a celebrity managed to come up with a $3B algorithm that Apple and other companies couldn't create on their own or buy far cheaper elsewhere. I am not sure people are all that interested in new artists in any event. When I tune into music while I drive everyday from my iPhone I generally will just pick a station on Pandora and in the last week I have started to use iTunes a bit more and find myself pulled to the Top hits stations from various genres and decades depending on my mood.
4) Iovine talks about how Spotify is limited. He makes a lot of good points.
5) That algorithm sounds like it's right up Apple's street.
6) I love what he had to said (starting about 28 minutes in) about how music companies will never get technology right and technology companies will never get curation right. I'm digging this idea of excellent curation and I do want to know what the next song is.
Thanks just watched that right through.
I wonder if that is the older style earbuds he is slamming. The newer ones are a major step forward. That said I use my Audio-Tenchica studio cans whenever I can (no pun intended).
I even like a radio DJ that tells you what you just heard as well as what's next.
The acquisition isn't about the headphones and speakers. Apple could snap up a thousand companies that do a solid job
with audio.
What you cannot find easily is a service with good music curation. I've tried them all. Spotify sucks, Rdio isn't much better. All the services let me listen to days and days of music but few really helped me discover new artists.
I'm sorry but music curation is not worth $3B. Neither is Jimmy Iovine. On CNBC this morning they said it was all about the headphones. I'm sure Apple retail knows how many beats headphones they sell and Cook and finance know how huge the margins are on them. They're cheap headphones that people are willing to pay lots of $$ for. That's what makes me sad as it seems like this is just a money grab. Or Apple wrongly thinking they need to improve their "cool factor" and that Beats is the way to do it.
That may very well be true but I find it hard to believe Beats which is a marketing/gimmicky type company reliant on a celebrity managed to come up with a $3B algorithm that Apple and other companies couldn't create on their own or buy far cheaper elsewhere. I am not sure people are all that interested in new artists in any event. When I tune into music while I drive everyday from my iPhone I generally will just pick a station on Pandora and in the last week I have started to use iTunes a bit more and find myself pulled to the Top hits stations from various genres and decades depending on my mood.
From what i've read the Beasts Music curation is largely human. Whatever they've done they are ahead of the competition in quality...for now.
I really need great music curation. Any service can slam me into the Top-40 stuff. I want to feel as though i've got my own personal DJ on staff that knows what I like.
I’m not sure how you could call it even a good analysis, as they consider rumor to be fact. They say so right in the first sentence. Why would anyone listen to them after that?
What you cannot find easily is a service with good music curation. I've tried them all. Spotify sucks, Rdio isn't much better. All the services let me listen to days and days of music but few really helped me discover new artists.
That's the only thing that makes sense to me but is that really worth billions? Is that something Apple really couldn't create or license?
I wonder if that is the older style earbuds he is slamming. The newer ones are a major step forward. That said I use my Audio-Tenchica studio cans whenever I can (no pun intended).
I even like a radio DJ that tells you what you just heard as well as what's next.
Maybe, but that video is from earlier this year so it's hard to tell. I certainly don't like the new ones. Granted they are much improved over the old ones but I won't use them.
If Apple goes through with this, my guess is Eddy Cue will no longer be overseeing iTunes. Which is fine because he has more than enough on his plate with iCloud, Siri, maps and the App Store.
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Best analysis on this potential buy I have read.
Apple Is Acquiring A Fad - Not Quality - And That Is Troubling
Obviously true, the question is what royalties they pay on the music as I don't think the hardware is all that relevant to Apple.
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I guess nothing good can last forever
Beats are just trendy junk.
I have never owned a pair of Beats but my friends that have had nothing but problems. Sure they were under warranty but dropping hundreds of dollars on crap. I'd rather not. Bose please.
LOL, Bose is the Beats for old people. Overpriced crap that relies on marketing not quality. Any and I mean any audiophile site will confirm that. Companies like Sennheiser make quality products and also have a lot of IP protecting that. It seems Beats only has design type patents which are useless as trends change. All they did was use cheap Chinese OEM phones and added some bass and a big marketing campaign.
Beats were also valued at only around $1B less than a year ago. What happened in the last 12 months to add another $2B?
Ha ha ha! Right you are. I get a quite a few quotes from that era misremembered. Wonder why? : )
This is so sad to me. Apple ruining its brand to get some street cred from young hipsters.
The acquisition isn't about the headphones and speakers. Apple could snap up a thousand companies that do a solid job
with audio.
What you cannot find easily is a service with good music curation. I've tried them all. Spotify sucks, Rdio isn't much better. All the services let me listen to days and days of music but few really helped me discover new artists.
The acquisition isn't about the headphones and speakers. Apple could snap up a thousand companies that do a solid job
with audio.
What you cannot find easily is a service with good music curation. I've tried them all. Spotify sucks, Rdio isn't much better. All the services let me listen to days and days of music but few really helped me discover new artists.
That may very well be true but I find it hard to believe Beats which is a marketing/gimmicky type company reliant on a celebrity managed to come up with a $3B algorithm that Apple and other companies couldn't create on their own or buy far cheaper elsewhere. I am not sure people are all that interested in new artists in any event. When I tune into music while I drive everyday from my iPhone I generally will just pick a station on Pandora and in the last week I have started to use iTunes a bit more and find myself pulled to the Top hits stations from various genres and decades depending on my mood.
Thanks just watched that right through.
I wonder if that is the older style earbuds he is slamming. The newer ones are a major step forward. That said I use my Audio-Tenchica studio cans whenever I can (no pun intended).
I even like a radio DJ that tells you what you just heard as well as what's next.
Tim Cook is the next Ballmer. He has no vision! Two years after Jobs' passing he's still sitting on all of the major Apple products.
Will he buy Monster Cables next? How about more audiophool snake oil companies like Beats?
Tim Cook fired the true Steve Jobs successor: Scott Forstall! Scott wouldn't make these idiotic deals that Tim's making.
While Google and Facebook are "skating where the puck is going to be, Apple's skating where the puck was 10 or 100 years ago".
I can't be the only person who thinks this is a terrible comment. Stay classy GadgetCanadaV2. :no:
That may very well be true but I find it hard to believe Beats which is a marketing/gimmicky type company reliant on a celebrity managed to come up with a $3B algorithm that Apple and other companies couldn't create on their own or buy far cheaper elsewhere. I am not sure people are all that interested in new artists in any event. When I tune into music while I drive everyday from my iPhone I generally will just pick a station on Pandora and in the last week I have started to use iTunes a bit more and find myself pulled to the Top hits stations from various genres and decades depending on my mood.
From what i've read the Beasts Music curation is largely human. Whatever they've done they are ahead of the competition in quality...for now.
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2014/01/21/beatsmusic
I really need great music curation. Any service can slam me into the Top-40 stuff. I want to feel as though i've got my own personal DJ on staff that knows what I like.
Apple Is Acquiring A Fad - Not Quality - And That Is Troubling
I’m not sure how you could call it even a good analysis, as they consider rumor to be fact. They say so right in the first sentence. Why would anyone listen to them after that?
That's the only thing that makes sense to me but is that really worth billions? Is that something Apple really couldn't create or license?
Maybe, but that video is from earlier this year so it's hard to tell. I certainly don't like the new ones. Granted they are much improved over the old ones but I won't use them.