jcs2305

maltz said:

zoetmb said:

We're now running a $trillion deficit and part of the reason is because of huge corporations who pay no or little federal income taxes.

But most of the reason is that federal spending jumped 30% or so in 2008, due to that year's bailouts, economic stimulus, and such, and became the new normal.  Tax revenue has set several new all-time highs in the last decade, while at the same time also setting records for deficit spending.  The house, senate, and presidency have changed hands a couple of times during all that, so both parties have been equally irresponsible.

robin huber said:

Guess harvesting user personal data for profit is best left to the experts. 

dws-2 said:

I'm glad that Apple is improving, and I think some day they might get there, but every time I try using Apple Maps, something is wrong. The store is about half a block away on a good trip, several miles away on a bad trip. I would vastly prefer to use Apple Maps for the privacy, and I could live with the lower detail and a couple months out of date information, but it leads me to the wrong place way too often, even a couple years after the restaurant or business opened. This is in Minneapolis, MN, which would seem to be a big enough city to have some accuracy.

M68000 said:

esummers said:

Specs in the "Processor" category are significantly different with Apple having a huge lead, but spec-to-spec comparisons are often misleading since they don't show the whole picture or are hard to quantify with a single number or spec.  There are legitimate reasons to choose Android, but technology-wise it is hard to compete with Apple's control of the whole stack.  For example iPhones are much more efficient with their RAM use due to no garbage collection overhead, more efficient resource utilization in background processes, and more efficient at offloading inactive memory to SSD.   You can basically double the iPhone RAM specs for the sake of comparison with Android.  Apple's processor is significantly more advanced than anything offered by Qualcomm putting it in a league of its own.   Apple's battery chemistry is very good, but there is no specification to show that.  Apple could easily match RAM or battery size specs, but it chooses not to because it doesn't matter.  Android generally gets earlier access to commodity tech like the latest cellular chips due to release cycle differences.  You are also comparing last years iPhone with this years Samsung phone.  I don't know enough to compare the large camera MP difference when not using binning (although Apple seems better in the typical case 12MP vs 10MP), but I assume that is due to the huge camera array on the Samsung.  I'm not sure if that tradeoff makes sense for an iPhone, but I'm sure it will attract someone to the S20 Ultra.

"Apple could easily match RAM or battery size specs, but it chooses not to because it doesn't matter".   Well,  not sure I'm buying into that statement about batteries.  I would take a 4500 or 5000 Milli amp hour battery over a 4000 or lower battery every time.  It's tiring to see Apple behind in this area.   I agree with Georgebmac's comments about iOS and applications being so compelling to use iPhones, totally agree. 

GeorgeBMac said:

Yeh, they hide it pretty well...

But I got used to doing it as my grandson (on my Family Plan) kept opening new subscriptions -- mostly just to try them.

But, if I ever cancelled his Apple Music there would be hell to pay.  He loves it.   So do I.  I can't remember the last time I listened to a CD or the radio.

...  I just wish that I could start Apple Music on my phone from my Apple Watch.  It's cumbersome to have to fish my phone out of my pocket & start it up.   Apple Watch has me so spoiled!

I am not sure which AW you are using.. but you have the choice to to play what is on the Apple watch or iPhone.  If you tap the music on the watch it gives you a choice of what is playing on Apple Watch or iPhone. If you tap " On iPhone" you can scroll and choose ( Playlists, Artists, Albums, songs ) start playing a song and it will show on your iphone and watch as the track that is playing. Hopefully I explained that clearly...