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spheric said:

In other news, immigrants in Springfield steal and eat others' dogs and eat them. 

Who the fuck cares what bullshit JD Vance spouts, unless it's subsequently picked up by Tr*mp to utterly embarrass himself to a worldwide audience? 

ssfe11 said:

Clueless idiot. Oh and btw Springfield do you know that your pets are getting eaten?  Fido is being roasted up right now. Smh you can’t even make this stuff up!

12Strangers said:

Steve Jobs never wanted lossless. He and Neil Young had a meeting about that very thing before there ever was an iTunes Store let alone streaming. So as Neil’s Pono player and music store were about to start making money, Apple bought their mastering facility and shut it down. Because Steve was an asshole.  

I’ll stick with Qobuz.

The iTunes Store opened in 2003.

Jobs died in 2011.

This reversal is also a symptom of how many Republican congress members own Apple stock.

9secondkox2 said:

No need to follow after something that isn’t quite working in the market. 

The killer app for headsets is entertainment - gaming and media. 

In that sense, meta even has the better product. 

Apple has the far superior hardware, software, and ecosystem. 

But all the hardware and OS polish in the world isn’t going to save a product that the market has rejected time and again - save for a niche subset of gamers. 

The quest is lighter, doesn’t require a tethered battery, and plays decent games. 

While there are some compelling engineering/medical use cases, it’s not a mass market thing. 

Most people just don’t want to be encumbered by a device for their daily needs. 

When it’s indoor/outdoor sunglasses, that may possibly change. 

But headsets just suck. 

One of the best decisions Meta ever made is saying “no” to this. Kinda like Apple used to do.  

Or... Meta realized they can't just slap together something in 6 months to compete with something that has almost 10 years of development behind it. The  only thing holding back the Vision Pro from becoming a blockbuster success is its price. When that comes down everybody will want one. Remember, the iPod was based on only one kind of media. When people start seeing their friends with one and they have a chance to try it out for themselves, Apple Vision For-The-Rest-of-Us will be huge.

Disappointed Apple TV 4K is still limited to 48 kHz audio from both hi-res Apple Music  and streaming directly from a Mac. Imagine if your photo streaming was limited to 720 ppi. 

Hey, bad golf won't play itself.

Update: leaked photos of the Magic Mouse 3 prototype shows the charging port has been moved to middle of the mouse's top surface, leaving nowhere to place the user's hand while recharging. Slightly sinister laughter was also heard coming from within Apple's Product Design department.

Anyone calling for Tim Cook's resignation aren't doing so because they want Apple to succeed.

I'm looking at this from the outside, since I deAdobe'd myself before the subscriptions started. But I don't understand how Adobe can justify charging such an extortionate cancellation fee, or why people put up with it. When a customer decides they don't want to use their service, they should be able to cancel the service and just walk away as long as their accounts paid up to date. Adobe can just disable the apps on their end if they must. But penalizing customers for deciding they don't want your service anymore just seems evil. 

Appleish said:

pdnoble said:

Hello, Apple! We can stream Apple Music losslessly to a HomePod but not to our high end audio systems where we can actually hear and appreciate hi res audio! 

The magic of "Apple Digital Mastering" makes AAC 256k streaming indistinguishable from high resolution for most people. 

Then there is their lossless vs. hi-res lossless. Almost nobody can really hear the difference. I have my Apple TV 4K hooked up to my high end receiver via HDMI. It plays through at lossless, limited to 24-bit/48 kHz. I doubt even my skilled ears could tell much difference between that and hi-res lossless.

Your "skilled ears"aside, that is just not true. Anyone with a decent sound system can tell the difference if you know what to listen for. Sure 48/24 sounds great, but the difference is in detail. For example, if you're listening to the sound of a violin, the difference is in hearing the notes played, as opposed to hearing the sound of the bow on the strings. Some of us want to hear that realism. Why should we be denied just because "most people" can't tell the difference?