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Jimmy Iovine spent excessively as Apple Music head, current service growth slowing, report...
Patti Smithmobird said:
Check the work product (Artist/Bands) of the three Music Execs I mentioned, Iovine does not come close. Also the staying power of those Artist/Bands has not and most likely never will be replicated with Artist associated with Iovine. Iovine is more like a carnival barker.AppleExposed said:mobird said:
Iovine doesn't even begin to get close to Ahmet Ertegun, Mo Austin, and Clive Davis regarding "most successful record label execs". I agree with Macplusplus regarding Playlist as well. Playlist to me are for the lazy. People should listen to the entire album instead of looking for the "hits", it is so much more enjoyable.AppleExposed said:Hate Jimmy all you want but he's one of the most successful record label execs in history and knows wtf he's doing.
I think his money was well spent and now I understand why Apple Music has had less buzz and excitement lately.
And one more thing, all the comments above regarding what Music is in need of are spot on, I don't understand why Apple who always spouted about music being in it's "DNA" allows for such an anemic experience.
Oh no Jimmy is up there. His achievements are up there. I remember surprisingly reading his name on plenty of top 40 CD booklets just laughing how wide his reach was.
When Jimmy was running Apple Music you'd hear about the service everywhere. On the news, radio, word of mouth, cool city ads and people talking about the latest exclusive music and videos. The Hotline Bling video was viral and reached 1.5B views(half of Gangnam Style). I didn't even know that was funded by Apple. Ever since this new guy took over the platform has cooled off and has become boring. Maybe that's why subscriber rates have decreased? I only now hear of Apple Music on tech sites and Verizon ads.
"We just want to be the best; that doesn't have to be the biggest," Schusser said in response.
It's a shame Apple didn't put their logo for Apple Music or indication that they were involved in the viral video. Maybe Jimmy/Apple had no idea how big it would be. It now reads in the description "stream on Spotify". What a slap on the face.
Tom Petty
Dire Straits
Stevie Nicks
Meat Loaf
Bob Seger
Rod Stewart
U2
Joan Jett
Bruce Springsteen
Simple Minds
Graham Parker
The Pretenders
Bob Geldof
Alison Moyet
Jeff Healey
Eurythmics
Golden Earring
I dunno.
Seems like he's done okay in terms of production credits.
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Apple buys Intel modem business in $1B deal
Gruber points out that the executive quoted in Apple's Press Release is Johny Srouji, senior vice president of Hardware Technologies.Soli said:Have those Nortel patents for LTE that Apple bought amounted to anything yet? I ask because I wonder if this is about Apple investing in their cellular radios or using it as a investment to stave off future patent trolls.
This is not about patent trolling. They intend to build this stuff.
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Apple 'Privacy. That's iPhone' campaign billboards reach Germany
"Amerikaner":
Berliner (called "Pfannkuchen" — pancake — in Berlin):
Wiener (NOT "Weiner"!), called "Frankfurter" in Vienna:
Krakauer:
This has been a food safety PSA for your information.
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Review: Apple's 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro is an excellent, inexpensive workhorse
I am. I was in Apple sales (reseller) for eight years and did support for a while longer. "People" don't upgrade. RAM was occasionally upgraded, but only ever once on any laptop. Often enough done by our service guys — mostly when the machine was purchased. Hard drives were usually only replaced when they broke or upgraded when the machine was purchased (or ordered BTO in the first place).GeorgeBMac said:
Quite the contrary. These AI pages have been filled over recent years with reports of Mac users upgrading both memory and storage. And, it certainly doesn't have to be done by a "tinkerer" -- I can pop a drive out of my Lenovo in literally seconds (remove ONE screw and pull out the tray) and upgrading memory isn't much harder. But, if Apple or the user chooses, it could be like changing an iPhone battery -- not a user replaceable part, just take it to the Apple Store.StrangeDays said:
I suspect (and have read educated guesses from writers here) that the vast majority of Apple laptop customers didn’t perform DIY upgrades. You’re confusing yourself as a DIY tinkerer with the mass market.bobolicious said:...non-upgradable = unappealing from this camp...
I'm not buying the "nobody does it" argument.We had a service where we'd replace the optical drive with an SSD. Hardly ever done, but available.
In mentioning that "these AI pages have been filled […] with reports of Mac users upgrading", you forget that "the vast majority" of Mac users never post on troubleshooting forums on the internet. Ever.The people who are talking on here are by definition total dweebs, not "regular users".
There's what — probably a couple hundred semi-regular active users here, and probably about 50 to 100 or so accounts that do 90% of the posting.There are two BILLION active iOS devices.
There were 100 MILLION active Macs in use as of 2018.
The vast majority of Macs sold have been laptops, for at least a decade.
No Mac laptop has been upgradeable in any meaningful sense since 2016 (and even before then, the aftermarket SSDs were kind of spotty, unreasonably expensive, and certainly nothing ever approaching a mass market).
You do the math.
Nobody* does it.
*) obviously the proverbial, slightly hyperbolic, "nobody".
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Developers talk about being 'Sherlocked' as Apple uses them 'for market research'
When Apple built Safari, Netscape had already been displaced by Microsoft Internet Explorer.StrangeDays said:It happens. Ask the developers of Netscape.And Netscape did a job of killing NCSA Mosaic before that.
I remember well the first time I used Netscape on a demo Mac at a consumer fair — "Wow! INLINE GRAPHICS! Holy Carp!"
