linkman

AppleZulu said:

So Spotify still doesn't offer lossless audio or spatial audio? 

Their "premium" plans appear to still only include compressed, lossy audio, and they're more expensive than Apple Music, which does include lossless, spatial and a second specialized app for classical music. Also, Apple pays artists better.

Interesting.

I find even my 192 kbps MP3 rips from my CDs have substantially superior audio quality compared to Spotify's music. Spotify is desperate to keep costs down and it certainly shows in this respect.

voice-of-reason said:

mrwitt said:

Tariffs are a very positive long term strategy. Our country has been taken to the cleaners for years with gross trade deficits.

this is a mind-numbingly ignorant comment. Tariffs do NOT address trade deficits. No matter how high we "tariff" Vietnam, they do not have enough people or income to balance trade with us. You have to know this. I simply can't believe you actually believe a tariff war will even out trade deficits. 

Tariffs will encourage companies to move production to domestic which avoids tariffs. This can keep the price to the retail consumer lower than if a tariff were applied. Let's say a clothing manufacturer imports 1M units a year from Vietnam, responds to tariffs by producing those 1M units in the USA -- end result is a more balanced trade. So yes, tariffs can level out trade deficits with the smallest and/or poorest of countries.

The least expensive Mac Mini is $600. This dock is listed at $400. Unless the real world price is a lot cheaper than $400 we see a big disparity in what you get what you pay for.

The one piece of hardware I recommend improvement on is to add a speaker to the remote. Even with the remote finder method using an iPhone it can be tough to find the very petite remote. A speaker beeping would make it much easier to discover.

If the author has complaints about a buggy YouTube app -- he should try the YouTube TV app. Oy.

If this is the only part of the "Air" announcement then color me disappointed