kiltedgreen

Afarstar said:

To think this utter madman also has his finger on the nuclear button. He’s out of control but none of his team can do anything about it. Bit like Putin. 

They certainly could do something about it. But they won’t.

Zirlin said:

Put the MacOS on the iPad and watch sales skyrocket.

You’ve not been here long, have you?

It hurts, but it would be hard to name the functionality of an app that Apple could decide to make which doesn’t currently have a counterpart in the App Store. I mean “There’s an app for that” basically says that whatever you think of doing, someone else can already sell it to you.

Back in the day I had a mostly QUAD HiFi with Pink Triangle/Alphason arm and AT cartridge topped with ESL-63s. For regrettable reasons, that has all gone and now I have Apple Music and KEF LSX speakers which I use wirelessly but I also bought a dedicated headphone amp and QUAD ERA-1 headphones to make up for my loss.

When Apple debuted Lossless and HiRes I was thrilled. I could certainly tell the difference between AAC and Lossless but what about Lossless and HiRes? So, for those albums which offered both formats I downloaded both to my iPad Pro, and listened to each format on my headphones across about 6 different albums. I could just about convince myself that there may have been slightly more detail with HiRes, but given file sizes around 6 times bigger I decided to forgo the possible maybe advantages. I’ve stuck with lossless since and until I try again and miraculously notice a difference worth the pain, that is where I’ll stay.

Until Apple released the iPhone I doubt Spotify even had personal streaming as a viable proposition (if they even existed then). Given Apple have charged right from the start, Spotify could just have said “We don’t want to use your expensive delivery system” and done it themselves. But they didn’t. And now they complain (or at least some people are).

Agreed. I’ve found it really encourages exploration in all kinds of way. Excellent stuff.

mikethemartian said:

kiltedgreen said:

Amazing how Apple / Tim Cook is pilloried over the Apple Car - a product that Apple never even acknowledged. It really is quite an amazing apportioning of criticism. The AI functionality that has been advertised, but not been delivered is very fair game for criticism.

But if the car, then why not blame Apple for their failures over their delayed TV set, the hot mess of the folding iPad, Macs still without a cellular connection, their flawed electric motorcycle, Apple ring, washing machine, solar powered router, 8” iPhone and all those other products Apple have never even announced. We know they were junk and were quietly shelved ….

How much money did he spend on the development of the car?

The car that Apple never announced but was endlessly analysed by tech pundits? The car whose existence Apple never acknowledged? The car that may have been a project but after lengthy feasibility studies, never made it out of mockup proposals or was cancelled as not worth pursuing? That car? Apple of course, would would know exactly how much they spent on it. Do I know? No. Do you know? No.

Do you really think that the only things that Apple ever proposes, tests and develops are the products that actually end up on sale for you to buy? Do you really think that they have never taken 50 other products to a feasibility/test stage before deciding that, all things considered, they do not wish to pursue it any further? How much money did they spend on those? Do you know?

Even before AI I’ve been surprised at the drip drip of unready features Apple announces at WWDC which then slowly appear over the year. It didn’t used to be like that. It used to be like, say, here is the new iPad “… and it’s available tomorrow”.

When you release hardware, you can’t update it so the features that you announce have to be true once it’s on sale. Software isn’t like that and can always be updated. Treating a new OS as though it’s hardware would make for a much more trustworthy and polished experience - don’t announce OS features this year if they won’t be in the release as soon as it’s out. Succumbing to the siren voiced pull to release it now, just to get something out and the rest later, is a really retrograde step in my view.

“I made the mistake …”  

That’s not an appropriate use of the word “mistake” that matches what you will find in any dictionary!

Given Apple released the QuickTake digital camera decades back, I’ve been expecting them to release a Stereo (3D) camera since they introduced the Vision Pro and showed how amazing 3D videos can be on such a device.

They have made what is clearly a compromise toward that idea with the latest iPhones, but a dedicated 3D camera, with the lenses a more sensible distance apart, would make more sense.