magman1979

For anyone using copies of Creative Cloud licensed via your enterprise, DO NOT update your apps!

This update, especially to Lightroom CC, just nuked the enterprise license we use at my workplace, and now the bloody POS is demanding an Adobe ID to use the app, and when I click Cancel it just shuts down. Using the re-serialization utility to re-apply the enterprise license is inoperative now.

Now I have to roll back my Mac to regain Lightroom functionality.

Adobe, FU with your horrendous subscription model and your constant holding of user data hostage when you screw up your licensing with your enterprise vendors! I swear with each screw up you make I'm leaning more and more towards dumping your shit software and going to the likes of Affinity, Pixelmator, on1 Software, anything except you!!!

SpamSandwich said:

Bloody Canadians.

As a Canadian, I've seen the reporting quality by the CBC going down the toilet considerably over the last few years, favouring sensationalism and skewed facts to support their own conclusions.

Also of note, go check the comments sections on ANY news story they publish regarding Apple, negative or not; it gets FILLED with the most vile, anti-Apple, Fandroid-troll rhetoric you can imagine, which gives you a glimpse into the type of readers / viewers the CBC seems to attract, and thus they choose to cater to for click bait articles and news stories. And try to post any pro-Apple comments, or post any pro-Apple evidence to counter the CBC article, and not only will you get vilified and bullied, but the admins of the CBC site often delete your post.

It's disgusting, makes it look more like BGR.com TBH.

OK, let's set aside for the moment everyone's apparent need to drag musical tastes or Nicki's vocal talents into this discussion, they are irrelevant. Although, to add my two cents, I think she actually has a great set of pipes on her, WHEN she actually uses them and doesn't rap!

The issue here is about Spotify bullying artists and labels into trying to get them to fall in-line and make new releases exclusive to their service upon initial launch in order to unfairly shut out other steaming services, such as Apple Music and Tidal. Nicki is not the first artist to make claims of these behaviours from Spotify, and she probably won't be the last.

Personally, had AM not come along, I'd have NEVER brought myself to subscribing to Spotify or Tidal, both (as far as I'm concerned) are vial companies who don't treat artists fairly, and, like Google, don't actually offer a product or service; its customers are the product and they monetize them every chance they get.

There have been several examples over the years of Spotify software breaching privacy of the consumer for their own monetization benefits:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-21/youve-been-warned-spotify-wants-spy-you-every-way-imaginable
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/jp48a7/spotify-is-spying-on-your-facebook-photos-contacts-and-gps-location

There are many more examples of this behaviour, just do a few quick DDG searches and you'll find them; yes I referred to DuckDuckGo

So as far as I'm concerned, I hope more artists / record labels rebel against Spotify, and go with the platform that won't play a game of strong arming artists into potentially detrimental actions against their careers.

king editor the grate said:

"If you're helping new or inexperienced iOS users then you know they never think to backup to iTunes on their Mac." It's a bit counterintuitive because it requires you to toggle off the iCloud backup. I'm an experienced user and am still a bit taken aback choosing between the options because, hey, I do still want to back up to iCloud. I just also want a periodic backup on computer.

This is not the case with my setup...

Just did this, and though my iPhone X is defaulted to backing up to iCloud, all I have to do is click the Backup Now option under Manually Backup and Restore and away it goes to the local drive, without changing the iCloud setting.

You know what, you praise Apple in one breath for charging a measly $0.99 for 50GB and $2.99 for 200GB, which is literally less than (or the same) as sacrificing one of those Caramel Macchiato Latte's once a month, yet in the rest of this bash piece you claim you resent the 5GB? Self-entitlement complex much?

Seriously, NONE of the other services offer the seamless integration of what iCloud offers with iOS and macOS devices, and MANY of them I wouldn't trust with any of my data.

This whole article wreaks of bad advice, and endorsing inferior services, all to save, literally, a buck a month.

I say, don't be cheap, pay the buck (or three) a month, and have piece of mind!