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brucemc said:

freerange said:

Seriously????? That's an absolutely ridiculous position. Apple built and maintains their iOS platform at great expense, and has invested BILLIONS in developing their user base, and you think Spotify should get a free ride for their competitive paid subscription as they have access to over 1 BILLION Apple devices? Which would in fact be special treatment compared to every other paid service in the AppStore. The reality is that Spotify, an Apple Music competitor, is allowed in the Apple AppStore, and further, has their free ad supported program available for download in the store at ZERO cost to them and their users. What could be more fair than that for a direct competitor to Apple?

That person has a number of absolutely ridiculous positions - this is just one of them.

There's nothing ridiculous about that.   Further when you make 70% of retail sales in someone else's store, that alone obliterates your bullshit monopoly claim.

normm said:

soldbyroland said:

If there is a God in heaven, she will be picked as Grandma's vice president. Nothing could be more repugnant than these shrill Blues Sisters out on the campaign trail together. Neither of them has ever created anything except hysteria. Yet they are out criticizing the the people who create jobs and opportunity. What a wretched creature she is!!

Warren is one of the top bankruptcy experts in the world, many say the top expert.  She's highly cited in her publications on this subject, working as a professor at Harvard.  She grew up as a Republican, but it was seeing how ordinary people get pushed into bankruptcy by lack of heath care, and tricked out of their savings by financial advisors and "services", that made her enter politics.  She has fought the big banks that screwed up the economy harder than anyone else.  Remember that she was supposed to be in charge of the Consumer Protection Agency which she started, but the bank lobby and Republicans blocked her.  She started from humble beginnings and has accomplished more than most ever will.  It would be nice to have someone who has spent her life working hard to understand economics involved in running things when the world economy is so shaky!

I am the number one Apple fan, but they are not above criticism.  I actually think they would do better by reducing or eliminating their cut of subscription and media-buying charges.  It almost forces sellers to move the buying part off their iDevices, which certainly hurts the user experience.  I think Apple would make more money overall if they made less in ways that hurt the user experience!

Top expert?  Highly cited?  You copied that directly from her Wikipedia page.

She was a career teacher before becoming a politician, she's never practiced bankruptcy law, zero experience kinda works against being a top bankruptcy expert.   She's never worked in that industry, she writes books for 19-22 year olds, some of whom then graduate and might start a career in bankruptcy law, and any of those people would be more of an expert on day one of their first bankruptcy client.

No individual or business has ever said "Oh shit, I'm outta cash, you know what screw hiring a real lawyer, never mind the well established procedures and two hundred years of clear legal precedent, better call Warren!"

She might be an expert teacher, but she spent part of that time as a school administrator.   BTW, Harvard has well published teachers that write about Mozart, who are not expert composers.

You know, I'm beginning to suspect you just swallowed a politician's hyped profile, without even a question or realizing that politicians hype meager accomplishment into the grandest of achievements.  Worse, you parrot such a transparently goosed Wikipedia page?
All I can say is that you must be very easily impressed, wait till you see my performance in women's gymnastics at the Olympics!

She got into politics because of her big heart?  She's a multi-millionaire Senator schmoozing with fat cats, telling the public that they can't afford doctors, nurses, hospitals, prescriptions and health insurance, but they can afford to pay doctors, nurses, hospitals, prescriptions and a big government bureaucracy to oversee it all.  This is what qualifies for Democrat sainthood?

Herbivore2 said:

lkrupp said:

If she gets on the ticket that will almost guarantee the election of Donald Trump. Warren is totally ensconced in the lunatic fringe left. She is their leader and savior.

It doesn't matter. She will likely occupy a prominent position in the Clinton cabinet whether she is the Vice President or not. Her endorsement of Hillary and her anti American positions have disqualified the Democrats in my book. Not sure that I can vote Trump either. But I know that I will not vote for the Dems. 

She's already in the top tier of the Democrat party.  You really got to wonder about the people who see something in her, and then you got to keep those people far away from anything important in your life.  It takes a very scary character flaw to find merit in this woman, when there are give or take 350 million better people to admire in this country.

moreck said:

This all sounds great, but shouldn't they work with additional genres besides rap and pop?

None of these artists particularly need Apple's investment, and Apple's gaining zero experience in growing talent when they are just cherry picking top established artists and throwing more money for them to continue doing the same.  

That's not a path towards 'cool' that's just reinforcing the status quo and grafting Apple onto that.  Just remaining as a more neutral aggregator would have yielded all the same content.  It's time for Apple to cut the Hollywood dead weight loose, and bounce Iovine, Dre and Reznor. 

What we need is a large scale, private peer-to-peer wireless network to bypass the need for carriers and network middlemen.  

Device to device bandwidth handoffs, with businesses, homes and cars also acting as peers.  It's a big dream, but the only way I can imagine to get out from under the likes of AT&T, Verision and all their corporate government protections (commonly mislabeled as 'regulation').