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  • Apple TV+ boasts highest bitrate of any 4K streaming service, report says

    dbendixendbendixen
    Buh, I'm not familiar with the way such things are engineered, but is it possible the bit rate is high because few people are using the service? And, thus, it will drop when it becomes more popular?
    No, there’s no link to the number of users and the quality offered. Unless Apple doesn’t want to fork over the money to the CDN providers when they have millions of subs.

    The way streaming services work is they generate a piece of encoded content and then segment it into 4-8 sec chunks (sometimes vice versa). These are organized with playlists or manifests that tell the player what segment to play in what order. All these files are pushed out to content delivery networks which are composed of hundreds or thousands of servers for high availability and scalability. And, generally, they can scale on demand. 

    That  said, I worked for a major OTT live TV provider, and we found that 1.5 Tbps (yes, terabits per second) combined throughput isn’t an easy problem to solve. It’s exactly why Netflix built their own CDN; because even the likes of Akamai couldn’t keep up. 
    king editor the graterundhvidwatto_cobra

  • Apple hourly workers feel helpless under punishing pressure & mistreatment

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    sully54 said:
    As someone who currently works at an apple store, I can confirm that it’s pretty much a sh!t show each shift I work, and I’ve been with apple over 10 years. And it’s not just coming from Apple. Customers are aggressive and rude. So to get it from both sides, it’s demoralizing. 
    This isn’t a flippant comment so please don’t take it the wrong way. If you feel like this, why don’t you leave? You vote with your feet and walk out the door. If you’re outside of NY or CA demand for just about every type of job, especially retail, is huge right now. 
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  • Review: Wearbuds are like AirPods for your wrist

    dbendixendbendixen
    Way too big. If I wanted a brick on my wrist it’d be cheaper to get one from the side of the road. 
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  • Apple to increase starting pay for hourly workers to $22 per hour

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    tyler82 said:
    Threats of unionizing works.
    Seems like a win/win/win. No union = no union dues plus they got a pay increase anyway and Apple may not have to deal with a union. 
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  • Clubhouse hides account bios, images to protect Afghan users

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    appleinsideruser said:
    Sounds good. But, isn’t there a slippery slope here the the Internet Archive is being subverted. If for this? What other awkward content might disappear?
    I’m sure Biden has a good answer to this. 
    watto_cobra

  • French Apple iPhone, iMac bludgeoner given six-month suspended jail sentence, fined

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    sog35 said:
    "The judge declined to award that amount, as the equipment was judged to be for display and not resale"

    That's friken ridiculous.

    Apple still needs to replace those units with units that would be for resale. Idiotic 
    Well, it is France. One of, if not the most socialist country in Europe. They're not pro-profit or pro-capitalism so why would they award Apple full damages? It's wrong, but until people stand up and cry foul nothing will change.
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