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  • MagSafe 15W fast charging reportedly restricted to Apple 20W adapter

    heli0sheli0s
    “We took out the power adapter because we care about environmental waste”*







    *exceptions apply
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  • Relaunched Apple Music 'beta' web player features new 'Listen Now' tab

    heli0sheli0s
    Rayz2016 said:
    heli0s said:
    Why is there a Apple Music website that nobody uses but there isn’t Apple Music on Nest Home devices that millions of people have in their homes? This Apple-Google war is great....for Spotify
    So you’re saying that more people have access to a Nest Home device than have access to a web browser?

    (Typed on a web browser, no Nest device in sight)
    What I’m saying is that most people listen to Apple Music or Spotify on mobile devices and through the apps. Desktop is far far smaller down the list, if you look at the data. Everyone had an anecdote how “But my coworker logs in to his windows PC and is using Apple Music!” - those are exactly that- anecdotes. 

    Apple Music is on Echo devices, smart TVs (even from Samsung) yet it’s not on Google’s smart speakers or smart displays. I’m sure there is a “privacy” argument but the reality is that Amazon likely does the same stuff with Alexa that Google would do with their Assistant when it comes to searching a music catalog. This just feels like a spiteful move given smart TVs are notorious for tracking everything you do and AM is there as a built in app. 

    The key to a successful service is to available on all your devices regardless of platform. If AM is on Android, why can’t they add it to the second largest smart home platform in the world? Keeping it out won’t sell more HomePods, that’s for sure- it will just push people to competitors that work. 
    muthuk_vanalingamOfer

  • More email apps caught 'processing' and selling user data [u]

    heli0sheli0s
    Why I stick with Mail.app, despite it's numerous pain points.
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  • If you updated your HomePod to 13.2, do not reset it or remove it from the Home app

    heli0sheli0s
    I hope Apple does a complete end-to-end reassessment of how they roll out software updates going forward. This year has been nothing short of a complete disaster on virtually every front:
    - iOS 13 continues to be buggy even with 13.2, even if the major annoyances have been largely fixed. This is the version that should have been the 13.0;
    - Catalina and Catalyst in particular have been a massive let-down (just ask developers) - almost no documentation, much more work to create Mac apps than what was promised, apps that were supposed to be “Mac-like” are nothing of the sort. The very fact that Catalina rolled out so much later than iOS 13, yet apps like Reminders required the latest versions across all devices to work properly - that’s inexcusable.
    - Now they’re literally bricking devices after another failed update.

    Who is in charge of these rollouts? Do these people and teams talk to each other? What rationale justifies rolling out something so half-baked just so you “hit a deadline”.

    ”Steve Jobs would have never allowed that” is a running joke now, but like any joke - there’s truth in that. This isn’t MobileMe. This is literally the very software that runs on their most popular devices. Do better.
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  • Apple Music web browser player launches in beta

    heli0sheli0s
    I hope this signals they'll open up Apple Music to Google Assistant devices like Google Home and Smart Displays. It only works on Echo devices as of now..
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