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Spotify listeners may finally get lossless audio -- but at a cost
This will matter to the less than 1% of Spotify users that claim to “hear” the difference.There will be YouTubers that will make it look like the greatest thing to happen to music, well since music itself.The more than 99% of users will just shrug it off and continue listening to the way they’ve always been listening. -
AirPods & Apple Watch market share insight opens debate on consumer choice
At this point I think the DOJ would want AirPods, Apple watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac to be separate independent entities.Why wouldn't Apple want its devices to work seamlessly together?Correct me if I'm wrong, but do other watches work with an iPhone through an app? If someone wanted a Garmin or a Fitbit, wouldn't that work on an iPhone?Headphones/Earphones from other manufacturers all work when paired to an iPhone. In fact if you want a superior wireless listening experience, like LDAC according to audiophiles, then you should not buy any version of AirPods. Even better you should not even buy an iPhone because it doesn't support this and has less customizations than equivalent Android phones. Apple isn't reducing the experience of audiophiles, it's basically telling them not to buy their own products.Where is this so called anticompetitive advantage of AirPods? Most YouTubers describe them as over priced inferior products. -
Thunderbolt 5 vs Thunderbolt 4 -- everything you need to know
gadgetcanadav2 said:My ideal setup is my Macbook Pro with one Thunderbolt 5 cable powering the macbook that connects to a 32" 8K monitor with a TB5 passthrough feeding another 32" 8K monitor both at 60Hz or better. The back of the monitor would have a 10GB ethernet port and 3 or 4 USB-C ports that would connect my microphone, webcam and time machine hard drive. One TB5 cable for power and all communication to my Macbook Pro would be amazing. Apple just needs to make a Studio Display Pro with those features when they release a new MBP with TB5.That could still retain “Retina” resolution at 220 pixels per inch. -
Apple Vision Pro will be the platform for the killer VR app, not Meta
dewme said:"Even app developers that pretend they want an "open App Store" really just want Apple to run the App Store and iOS platform at its own cost, like a shopping mall that lets vendors set up shop to profit without paying any rent to cover the shared costs of running a marketplace.
Epic Games and the EU's Spotify don't want to build their own platforms or use a free platform like the web. They just don't want to pay Apple for delivering a platform of premium customers and building and maintaining their development tools.
The are, effectively, App Store squatters."
Nailed it.
It’s more about getting access to the (paying) customer’s data and credit card numbers. Selling data to marketing firms is added revenue to them and marketers know that iOS customers are more likely to pay for their services. -
Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees
slow n easy said:I'm not sure I would have ever bought an Apple Car. Knowing Apple, they would probably want to get rid of the steering wheel or some crazy shit like that. I would never even consider a car that I couldn't drive myself. I'm sure that Apple would also consider performance to be a low priority, and for me, performance is a high priority. I did consider the 2024 Model 3, but rejected that car because of a lack of instrument cluster screen. I don't want one gigantic iPad like screen. I prefer 2 or 3 different screens and the car I recently bought has a head-up display, which I love. Also, in the Tesla, you can't turn off adaptive cruise control. I tried it in my Integra, and I absolutely hate it. I turned that off along with pretty much all of the other active driving stuff. I don't plan on buying an EV until around 2034.What's wrong with adaptive cruise control? Don't you want your car to keep a safe distance between you and the car in front while you're speeding down the highway at at least 100 km/h (=60 mph)? Besides there are least three or more settings to most cars (my terms ==> safe, safer and safest).