montrosemacs

Would dearly love to see a redesign of the Apple Music app. It’s the #1 reason I prefer Spotify (well, that, and a better algorithm that finds music I like). Haven’t seen Spotify’s new design yet, I hope they didn’t “fix” what wasn’t broken…

My biggest beef with Apple Music is how much the site pushes music by contemporary, popular artists that I have ZERO INTEREST in listening to. Anything that Zane Lowe and his cohort are promoting is nearly by definition something I don’t want to hear. Sorry if this offends anyone, but anything by Kanye also exemplifies what I never listen to (and Drake for that matter).  AM pretty much ignores my musical preferences and playlists, and promotes mass market “pop du jour” even though I never, ever click on that stuff. Spotify more closely aligns its browsing page with my tastes and favorites. I’d give anything if AM’s algorithms would do the same, it would be a way more enjoyable user experience. 

redefiler said:

If only we jam Trump up inside Obama, then we'd finally have both the ying and yang of retarded, self-absorbed candidates in one compact form.

Democrats who see this guy as a pariah, look in the mirror.  You're to blame right along with your Republican friends.   Your team has been whining about corporate's foreign income for years, and created this whole stupid notion as some sort of foil for your union parasite allies.  Trump is now pandering the same idea back to your stupid political base.

I miss the old forum format that allowed blocking posts from certain typically rabid members, hence reducing the number of seconds spent daily on having to scan hyper-inflated opinion fluff...

Can't believe Apple is in cahoots with this world-class jerk - Jimmy John, a name that will live in infamy: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-john-liautaud-hunting-photos/

When Musk announced he was going to buy Twitter for $44B I figured there was about as much likelihood as that happening as pigs flying, hell freezing over, or us ever seeing t_ump's taxes.

One wonders what the bill had before it was "stripped down"? Probably spending even more, no doubt. Meanwhile, the US defense budget is something like $780 billion a year. Re-homing chip production is decidedly more valuable to national security than another battleship or two.

Having watched the Elizabeth Holmes / Theranos story on TV, this smells like redux. Grift at a scale of $100 Million? Wow, possibly a new record. 

jdgaz said:

Meanwhile, the White House will increase business taxes on these industries so they are no longer competitive with other non-US operations. Go figure. 

Gee, how did it work years back when business taxes were appreciably higher and all these companies did just fine?

Meanwhile, in after-hours trading, the stock takes a complete nosedive. Go figure...

chadbag said:

JP234 said:

If you like FB, fine. But who wants to message anything on the watch? Don't we have iPhones, iPads and Macs for that? Ever try typing a password on your watch?

I agree though I have occasionally needed to use Messages (not FB Messenger) and type a reply on the watch when it was not convenient to get my phone out — like up on a scaffold or something and no easy access to pants pocket.  

But I agree.  Typing anything substantive on the watch is a chore.  

Type on a watch? Good grief. Try Voice-to-Text, it works really well for me :-)