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Apple Music loses hip-hop and R&B curator to Spotify
Everyone can tell the difference on my systems. Everyone.Oh and if you are going to try and say that you can tell the difference between a 256 AAC recording and a 320 MP3 which are both Lossy as you kind of state ( lousy compressed sound quality 256 AAC is compared to 320 mp3 (which also isn't great) you are completely full of sh**.
Everyone agrees the Spotify 320 soundsbetter. This is in blind testing.
Mind you, my system costs more than your car. Thus why I said - if you have the fidelity...
You obviously don’t have the fidelity.
Happy you enjoy AM. It’s a great time to be alive. But my comment was a generalization of the differences between the services. I obviously don’t think that every AM subscriber is on Prozac... they don’t have to be, they have A.M. o.O
You should try Spotify if you haven’t. There is a reason they are the industry leaders.
Peace
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Apple Music loses hip-hop and R&B curator to Spotify
Spotify have by far the best curation in the business. Probably because they have the largest music library in the industry.
- Tidal's curation always ends with R&B - regardless of what genre you pick. Want classical Spanish guitar for sleeping... 5 songs in... here is some rapper screaming about his pubes.
- Apple's curation always ends with top 40 *yawn* boring as **** corporate spoon fed RIAA sanctioned puke. Elevator music is more interesting. It's the streaming service for mind-controlled prozac junkies.
- Spotify's curation always ends with never before heard bliss that reaches into your very soul to find the essence of your existence - sending you on a journey of discovery, an epoch to musical nirvana.
If Spotify ever goes CD or MQA quality - it's game over for Tidal.
AM will always have its niche of serving bland porridge to the drones - on their Homepods with just-good-enough fidelity that it doesn't reveal what lousy compressed sound quality 256 AAC is compared to 320 mp3 (which also isn't great).
*mic drop...
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Apple considers cheaper HomePod in face of lackluster sales
Lots of people don't own a 1984 Hyundai Pony either - doesn't mean they don't know it's a crap car.jcs2305 said:
What I expect is the continuing influx of single post trolls talking S*** about a speaker they don't own, and continually quote incorrect info or compare it to a HT setup. There are many places in the home or office that just aren't suitable for a freakin home entertainment system my god the idiocy is just too much.cwoody said:What did they expect? They made a super niche speaker that’s super pricey and not at all portable or really compatible outside of apples ecosystem. Like I’ve never had the urge to buy a Sonos speaker, because I’ve always had an actual home entertainment system at home. And between Siri being half baked and having lots of inadequacies and HomeKit still feels like a beta, it’s not really worth it from a smart speaker perspective either. You basically need an iOS device to use it... which you can literally use for all of the hey Siri commands on their own. So you’re basically limiting it to someone who wants a very limited stationary speaker with good sound quality and who want to pay a premium for it. I can’t think of a single use for a HomePod in my house and I’m sure a lot of others feel exactly the same way.
And as far as comparing it to a HT setup... it was the typical mob of fanboy's here that flooded the forums with "it sound's better than a $50,000 HT rig" because of beam forming and an array of $3 tweeters... that opened that Pandora's box.
Trolling goes both ways Bub. Over-the-top 'Everything Apple is Perfect in every way and your a troll if you disagree'... is trolling in itself.
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The 2019 Mac Pro will be what Apple wants it to be, and it won't, and shouldn't, make ever...
This.01 said:Target markets. Pros, even if they upgrade, don't pay the inflated price for upgrades at the time of purchase ($10k Mac pro? Really?). Businesses don't pay them either. Companies that typically have IT staff don't have a ton of Macs. And companies that do group animation and video use clusters of machines for processing. They're not doing it on their own individual machines. The workplace has changed. Creative jobs have been outsourced. Large departments of Macs with designers and artists at them have been replaced by freelancers who bring their own machines (or people who work offsite). It's less overhead for the company. Lower overhead, lower inventory, more profit = good business. This is the trend.
For Apple, while they rode on the backs of the creative industry for years, they made more money touting security and the failures of Windows (until they became a target themselves). This changed their target market, because as switchers jumped on board, they weren't willing to pay for upgrades. And if a system board failed, it was easier for Apple to swap single units than it was to replace components (lower qualifications for service techs). With more non-professional voices dictating the "Pro" line of machines, it killed much of that market for Apple. With the ubiquity of the word, now companies make "Pro" doorbells. So it's lost its meaning.
There are still a few of us who would love to have a brand new loaded Mac, but they're not going to make millions of dollars off of us though. I personally wish they would open-source their OS. Then I could run what I wanted as a professional. Start charging for the OS again and make it cross-platform capable. Let companies write drivers. At the very least, split software from hardware in regard to the OS and make a different company that sells the OS for desktops. Apple can keep their Frankensteined mobile OS though. Time for competition.
However, Apple being the control freak king of all control freaks - will never open-source the OS. They would rather it die completely and go into bankruptcy than that.
The problem for Apple is - if they lose the creatives, they lose it all.
If the freelancers all switch to Windoze, then more software will be developed for Windoze and cascade into mobile and Android.
More creative tools for those platforms means the business community shifting with the 'creatives'.
Keynote was probably the single largest factor in Apple's laptop success. Guarantee it.
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The 2019 Mac Pro will be what Apple wants it to be, and it won't, and shouldn't, make ever...
22 Service techs are still service techs - the vast majority of people don't use service techs for RAM upgrades. They do it themselves or get a guy like me to do it.How much data do you think 22 service techs spanning 18 states and 15 years has? Way, way more than this. Regarding the polling of Apple store visitors from a few years back, that is as average Apple customer as you can literally get.
Your data isn't wrong, but like the Barefeats readers you speak of, it is skewed the wrong way from a polled population standpoint. It's like asking AppleInsider readers how many have done upgrades.
And, regarding Apple's data. They know exactly who upgrades and who doesn't. What do you think gets included in those crash reports?
The 'crash report' gleaning data on the precise computer shipped OEM and installed RAM - then extrapolating it into a report... man, I just don't know about that.
Thats some hard-core analytics if they do.
The iMac Pro is absurd for a computer that isn't expandable.
$7816 tax in (cad) - for the entry level machine with a GPU upgrade. - A new GPU architecture that won't weather the life-cycle of the machine.
In an emerging AR / VR market - companies / freelancers need some assurances.
Desktop publishing 'pros' are getting by with iMacs - but in a new market such as AR, where the tech/software will be changing rapidly, publishers need an easy way to upgrade. The iMacPro is obviously not it.
