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Lady Gaga removes track featuring R. Kelly from Apple Music and iTunes amid sexual assault...
I agree, this particular music means nothing to me and honestly, it's her album so I'm fine with whatever decision she makes but the idea of music retroactively being disappeared is disturbing. I'd hate to think that entire albums or even genres could be deemed too offensive by record labels some day, fifty years after they are released. Over Christmas, a radio station banned Baby It's Cold Outside for being too date rapey. That was either the beginning of the end or hopefully, because it was reinstated, a sign that all this madness is just noise from a small minority and most people are reasonable.cgWerks said:I could care less about these tracks... but this is what gives me pause depending on music subscription services (we do subscribe to Apple Music, BTW).
I keep running into music I'm looking for that isn't there. But worse, there are tracks missing from some of the albums that are there. I'm not sure why this is, as the stuff I'm looking for isn't controversial (as if that should matter?). It's probably some kind of licensing thing, but if I bought the CD, it would be there.
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The best of ShowStoppers at CES 2019
Tech Den sounds like an awful idea. How about instead of pizza, the reward for not using your device all day is going outside and using your body
*says the guy that fortunately doesn't have a teenager yet*
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Huawei punishes staff with pay cuts for marketing tweet sent via iPhone
It was an external agency, Sapient, at least that's how I read it. So an iPhone isn't unexpectedradarthekat said:First, the fact they could ‘turn to an iPhone...’ is all
that’s needed to be said. What was an iPhone doing there? Obviously, someone on staff prefers it over the brand they are representing in their job. So that deserves a good laugh at the expense of Huawei.
Beyond that, the company has now admitted it uses VPN software to access Twitter, circumventing the will of the Chinese government. Wonder if someone at Huawei should perhaps be docked a few months pay for that. Maybe the CEO.
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Health-tracking AirPods a next step for Apple as Google and Amazon race to imitate
The headline is a bit strange. It suggests Google and Amazon are racing to imitate an Apple product that has not been released or even announced - or did I miss an announcement? We could just as easily say Apple is racing to imitate Google or Amazon. Or more likely, they are all racing to compete in the health/wearables market, which is hardly a surprise.
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IDC: Apple Watch Series 4 accounted for less than 20 percent of Apple Watch sales in Q3
And if you were a paying customer you'd know that they do split the market out by price band and provide market share by revenue. Reading a free press release is not the same as buying their reports/services.EsquireCats said:Wow, if my business relied on market metrics from IDC. I'd just save the money and roll dice instead. Even a cursory review of their reporting shows glaring, if not entirely comical errors.
Like putting devices like the Mi Band 3 in the same category as the Apple Watch or indeed any smart watch:
- The device still lacks basic features that were mature in the Gen 0 Apple Watch.
- They are in vastly different price brackets
- Shipped units of a low-RRP, cheap to manufacture plastic band has no bearings on market share whatsoever, nor the smartwatch market.
- The item is frequently a gift with purchase
IDC might as well put Razor scooters in the same category as luxury vehicles. To satiate market demand for people to move around on wheels.
These glaring faults don't even scratch the surface of how IDC actually have no realistic ability to estimate both watch sales figures, units or model share.
