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Has anyone found other emulators available yet? I was able to download emu64 XL but the game boy emulator is either not available in Australia or has been removed from the App Store. Hopefully a few more options start showing up soon. 

rax_mark said:

So being an Android user, I pirated the show. 

Doesn't that go without saying for most Android users and the content they consume?  

jimh2 said:

The last thing anyone needs is for music to altered from the way the creator intended it to be. It is like editing a movie to fit within a time block or reformatting a 16:9 to fit a 4:3 display. Not what the created intended.

I see it as more the opposite of those examples. Editing a 16:9 movie to fit into 4:3 is taking away from the original film. Same with editing a movie to shorten it and fit within a time block. 

Mastering a song for Spatial Audio is more like digitally restoring or remastering an old film that may have degraded over time or remastering the audio for surround sound. Sure, it won't be exactly the same as the original, but the changes are more to do with additional benefits of modern technology that weren't available at the time of recording. 

It's not always done well though (in music or film) so I can definitely see why you would be concerned. There are times when a song in spatial audio makes the song worse, similar to how many people view the digital changes George Lucas made to the original Star Wars films as making them worse. 

The difference with spatial audio on Apple Music though is you can still listen to the originals if you prefer. For the most part I prefer the Spatial Audio masters but there are a few songs where I feel (for my own personal tastes) that the original is better. 

I was about halfway through the article and started thinking about how Apple is heading down the same path with advertising in the App Store and multiple promo ads on Apple TV before you can watch a show (the one I watched last night had 3 promos before the show started plus a recap!!). 

chasm said:

twolf2919 said:

I'm a big Apple fan - have all their devices - and was very enthusiastic when Siri first came out.  But over the years, Siri has moved inches, while competitors have moved miles - I can't believe a company that spends $22b on R&D can't make its voice assistant more useful in people's day-to-day lives.  So disappointing.

Siri will NEVER EVER be as “smart” as other voice assistants, so you’d better get over this right now. The reason? Because Siri doesn’t heavily rely on the collected data about you that encompasses more than even your parents know about you.

But this is like praising the child who answers the algebra question by looking over another student’s shoulder, and failing the child who did all the work themselves because it took too long IMO.

Exactly this! Siri does what it is meant to do and does it pretty well, without spying on us. Understanding accents does need some improvement and I’m sure there are other areas it could and will improve.