melgross

I bought that book on my iPad when it came out. It’s a great book, with interviews from the CEOs of RIM as well as from other companies, such as Verizon, which was the principle sales terminal for the Blackberry. Once Blackberry made an irretrievable error with their response to the iPhone, with the Storm, Verizon removed their advertising of Blackberry from their network and moved to the otherwise not yet successful Android (remember that campaign? It was towards young men, with aliens, meteoroids, etc). That destroyed Blackberry. They never came back from that.

9secondkox2 said:

StrangeDays said:

9secondkox2 said:

Should just be in a genre tab on Apple Music. 

a lot of music catalogs on Apple Music. Just because this is a giant catalog doesn’t mean it needs its own app. 

Biography info, etc would fit nearly as a link or accordion element. 

More steps to do the same thing. Not good. 

It’s not the number of tracks, it’s that the UX is different owing to some unique things about classical music. 

It’s music. No need for separate UX. It’s just a way to justify a dedicated app. 

But let’s say that you have a point - for sake of argument. Apple could easily implement a class where the classical tab of Apple Music gets its own look and behavior. 

And yet none of that is necessary. 

A music app is a music app. 

If there is a better way to do it, then they should apply it to the app as a whole to benefit the entire thing. 

Searching for, curating, creating playlists, and playing classical music is fundamentally no different than doing so for any other genre. 

Your last bit there is just wrong. Classical music is very different from pop, and generally, even jazz. Unfortunately, it’s much more complicated.

sloaah said:

williamh said:

I don’t understand the role of these companies.  I thought Apple designed the stuff and these other companies assembled them.  It sounds like the Pegatrons and Luxshares are designing or helping to design?

Designing a product and preparing a commercial manufacturing line for them are two very different things. There are lots of technical hurdles and bespoke machinery required to build Apple's products, because they're constantly pushing boundaries.

While true, Apple usually provides any custom designed machinery as well as training people to use them, so that’s no good reason to back away. I wonder if he’s really understanding what’s happening here. He usually gets most things right, as far as product details go, but often gets production dates wrong. This could just be another time when he doesn’t get the production concept correct.

It’s interesting that some here are imposing their values on others. We tend to think that an 8 hour day is final. But that’s not true everywhere, particularly in Asia. When you’re management, or off the clock in a white collar position, you’re often expected to work longer hours. But you get other perks that other employees don’t, as an offset. Apple still expects software, and likely hardware engineers, to spend most of their time near the end of a project, on that project, and limit, to some extent, the time they spend with their families, in order to finish on time.

we look at gains made in labor here, and don’t understand that it’s not true everywhere.

AniMill said:

“Wish I could simply plug a Mac mini into my iMac display.”

I believe this to be deliberate. If Target Displays Mode still existed, the reason and need for the Studio Display would be greatly diminished. I believe many iMac 5K users would see the Mac Mini M2 Pro as a great alternative to buying a new Apple display.

No. When Apple came out with the first 27” 5k model, there were no driver chips capable of driving a 5k display. There were kludges, but they didn’t work well. For example, using two driver chips and treating one side of the display as one display, and the other as another display, then syncing the two together. Horrible, but that all there was.

Apple designed their own driver chip to have one 5k display. But the conventions they had to use weren’t standard, and as a result, target mode had to go away. Sad, but not intentional.

ah, I didn’t see the other posts explaining this. Just to keep in mind, Apple had displays even when target mode was in effect, so having a monitor now is obviously not why it no longer works.