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  • Apple Watch is most precise wrist-worn heart rate tracker at 90% accuracy, study says

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    it doesn't make much sense to use a british english word in the lead of your story for an american site. and yes while there are U.K. readers here, it still doesn't make style guide sense to do so. 
    pscooter63

  • Jimmy Iovine talks past, future of Apple Music in new interview

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    patchythepirate said:
    But, the glaring omission (crippling what would otherwise be a clearly dominant service relative to competitors) is the lack of ability to create a personal page or section that you can post songs, playlists, or comments to, that you can chose to be public-facing. This seems like such a simple thing, and so easy to understand, that I'm genuinely flummoxed as to why Apple continues to refuse to create this.

    The Connect failure should have been easily predicted, just like ping. It allowed you only to peripherally participate, comment, or 'like' things without any meaningful self-expression. OTOH, Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, are all extremely successful because they are about sharing, self-expression, and identity! How can Apple not understand this BASIC concept of social?!?dk

    As long as Apple continues to limit the ability for self-expression and identity creation, Apple Music will continue to be a mere utility, no matter how many exclusives are launched, or how great some of the other services are.
    see that's funny -- because what you consider a glaring omission, i consider unnecessary. i'm not interested in post public playlists to a social media style landing page for my friends to visit. cuz they ain't gonna visit it and i don't care to visit theirs. music is personal and i just want to listen to it....i'm not in AM to "express myself" like a beautiful snowflake. 
    lostkiwicaliksec

  • Jimmy Iovine talks past, future of Apple Music in new interview

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    not getting the "don't tell me what i like!" butthurt. i have to wonder if you actually use AM... there's nothing stopping you from keeping, augmenting, and creating your own playlists. but if you want discovery of new music, it's on a separate screen just for that purpose. 

    whats the pain point here? 

    AM doesn't tell you what you like, you tell it. its pretty simple. i get NO recommendations for hip hop, r&b, or pop music -- because i told it i didn't like those genres. and i told it what i did like, and that's what it suggests. 

    i suspect this is just more techie echo chamber hating of anything and everything. if you didn't invent it it sucks, etc...
    lostkiwicali

  • Jimmy Iovine talks past, future of Apple Music in new interview

    nolamacguynolamacguy

    rogifan_new said:
    Of course he loves Eddy Cue. Eddy got Tim to overpay for a crappy headphone company with a streaming music service that had hardly any subscribers. I hated Iovine when he was on American Idol and I still hate him now.
    utter nonsense. Beats was an incredible purchase. it's already paid for itself so i don't know what drugs you're smoking. they're the #1 selling iphone accessory and even better they work with non iphones and the public loves them (no shits given for what so called audiophiles on tech sites care. they'll always be butthurt). 

    now os with the W1 integration into the beats wireless product line it's even more brilliant. 

    dont quit your day job! strategic vision is not for you. 
    lostkiwicali

  • Jimmy Iovine talks past, future of Apple Music in new interview

    nolamacguynolamacguy
    Dude has taken what was a revolutionary, breakthrough clean, easy to use, very clear-cut iTunes Music service and turned it into a confusing pile of dinosaur dung.

    He has been a detriment, not an asset.

    We don't need to "bridge" and imaginary gap between music and pop culture. 

    People like music. ITunes let them acquire the music they like.

    Now, with this guy at the helm, you are told what's "cool" and what to like.

    Please go to Tidal or something and leave Apple alone.
    you don't get it. apple music is not itunes. AM is *supposed* to study your likes and introduce you to *new* music. this is called discovery. not having this would be a missing feature. this feature is part of what adds value to AM.

    now if for some reason you don't want suggestions on new music and playlists to check out, that's a simple problem for you to solve -- don't go to the For You screen. problem solved.

    the rest of your post is conjecture ignorant of real facts -- none of us work with these people, none of us know who contributes value to the company and who doesn't. not a one of us. 
    lostkiwicali