Dan_Dilger

rogifan_new said:

So are we supposed to read into supply chain reports or not? I thought Tim Cook said not to.

This is not an interpretation of a supply chain rumor. But you knew that, you're just here to waste people's time. 

mrchao said:

Funny to suggest that Android is on its way out, since 3/4 of the products shown are running variants of Android.

Cromecast: Android (CastOS)
Home Hub: Android (CastOS)
Pixel: Android (Pie)
Slate: ChromeOS (with Android Play libraries)

The only other products running Chrome OS or variants are, Pixelbook and WiFi.

There is no "CastOS." Cast is a Google protocol. And according to Google itself, Cromecast runs "a simplified version of Chrome OS," not Android.

As the article points out, Chrome OS and Android were developed independently. Not even sure what your point is, just arguing about stuff you don't get for no reason. 

maestro64 said:

These metrics does not mean people were actually listening. I stream music in my house on the weekends and I can tell you many times we are not listening to what is playing. Also Spotify stated that they  put the song in their most popular play lists it does not mean people wanted to hear the song or were even listening.

The real metric would be request to hear the song. The current metric is push verses a pull, a pull for content has more meaning.

Both Apple Music and Spotify pay royalties per stream, so tens of millions of streams per day is not just blowing out of speakers on autopilot.

All this thought put into trying to explain why the leading artist globally is not really worthy of mention or isn't really popular sounds a lot like people who can't grasp that the world outside of them is not anything like what they imagine it to be.

Regardless, Apple Music doesn't have more reasons to be playing music that nobody is listening to compared to Spotify. It has fewer. Spotify was configured and regularly playing on home speakers like Sonos long before HomePod was available. And HomePod just went on sale. So the biggest audience of people listening passively to any popular artist should be on Spotify.

And yet Apple Music is still where most of the traffic driving the world's highest requested volume of streams is coming from.

tyler82 said:

can you also use the “graphite” UI with dark mode? I liked the colored buttons and blue menu selections in Aqua originally but it has devolved into something cheesy looking imo. Would prefer everything be dark and black/ grey.

Yes. When you pick grey as the Accent color (in either Light or Dark Mode) in Mojave, it not only turns off the color in UI elements (check boxes, pull down menus, radio buttons, etc), but also turns off the stoplight candy in the close/minimize/zoom buttons. The rest of the UI remains in color, but the chrome all turns grey.



 

Soli said:

sflocal said:

curmi said:

Dark mode isn't Black mode. The windows are grey, not true black, so I'm not sure the "OLED is coming" reasoning is right, as I think grey doesn't save much energy compared with true black, as the LEDs have to be on to do grey.

OLED energy-efficiency is dependent on its brightness.

corrections said:

curmi said:

Dark mode isn't Black mode. The windows are grey, not true black, so I'm not sure the "OLED is coming" reasoning is right, as I think grey doesn't save much energy compared with true black, as the LEDs have to be on to do grey.

No, OLED power consumption is roughly linear with the brightness level of pixels.

I'm confused by the use of the term brightness to refer to what reads like the color spectrum of the pixels.

On an LCD panel, the RGB sub-pixels filter the white light emitted from the backlight. So creating images on the screen is separate from its backlit brightness. On OLED, the pixels are RGB LEDs lighting up from off to dim to bright.