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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.

I loved Steve, and I'm an unapologetic Tim Cook fan. People who criticize TC are ignoring how absolutely worse things could have gone AS (After Steve). Just look around at all the embarrassing CEO bros and their companies that have either already crashed and burned, or those who are so damn jealous that they are willing to burn billions copying and/or suing Apple like spoiled children. They all want to be in the position Apple is in, and Tim Cook is how Apple got there.

I like Apple TV+'s content quite a lot. I find the quality very consistent from program to program. What drives me crazy is only 10 episodes a season, then you have to wait a year or more for a story to continue. By that time your emotional investment in the characters has evaporated, the young actors are a year or more older and taller, and major plot lines are a distant memory. I know this is the same model all streamers use, but if Apple wants to build an audience, longer seasons and quicker turnarounds would go a long way. 

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.

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. 

 Yep, Apple TV 4K is one of Apple's best products, and it's still very underrated, even by the author of the article above. Apple TV 4K really shouldn't even be compared to other streamers, because it does so much more.

VictorMortimer said:

Hopefully 2010 is far enough away that they'll be able to use the elapsed time to demonstrate that the trademark is now generic.

Lots of places and things are named apple, including a very common and popular fruit.  This is why common English words should NOT be trademarkable in the first place.  Apple should have stuck with Apple Computer if they wanted something trademarkable.

The Beatles' record label Apple Corp initially took issue with Apple Computers, until Apple agreed not to get into the music business, which it ended up doing anyway 20+ years later. At that point they sat down and renegotiated.