rogifan_new

Just going off the headline I knew this was a DED article. Here’s a phone that might be somewhat successful because of value for price (and it will be available on more carriers) so gotta trash it out of the gate. I guess Apple’s products can’t stand on their own? Sad.

From what I saw Google showed off some amazing stuff with Assistant. We’ll see what ships but man it shows how far behind Apple is. Cook should never have given Siri to Cue. And he should have recognized sooner Siri was not improving fast enough It languished way too long under Cue’s leadership.

chasm said:

rogifan_new said:

Like I’ve said many times Apple wasted $3B on Beats. And don’t throw headphones at me; that’s not why Apple bought Beats.

Good to know you’re still wrong. Let me direct you to the last few years’ of Apple’s financial statements and the growth of wearables ... let’s see how many billions more than three they’ve made ...

The growth of wearables is mostly due to Apple Watch and AirPods. I can’t remember the last time Tim Cook mentioned Beats on an earnings call. Apple didn’t spend $3B for headphones known for crappy sound/quality (yes I know Beats has improved in those areas) that were just popular because athletes and rappers were paid to wear them. They bought beats for Jimmy Iovine, Trent Reznor etc. But are any of the Beats Music folks still there? Apple Music is run by legacy iTunes staff.

1STnTENDERBITS said:

rogifan_new said:

Like I’ve said many times Apple wasted $3B on Beats. And don’t throw headphones at me; that’s not why Apple bought Beats.

You have said it way too many times.  Repetition doesn't make it any more valid.  The business case was solid then, and still is now.  Apple bought Beats for a number of reasons, and yes, headphones was one of them.  Unless you can provide some rationale for your assessment, you should really stop making it.  In all the years you've trotted out that opinion it has all been based on "I don't like Beats therefore Apple shouldn't have acquired them"  

Well I’ll just give an example. There’s a show I watch on HBO and the music in the show is all 70s mellow rock. I decided to create a playlist of this music in Apple Music. It has about 70 songs or so all added one by one. A friend asked if I could share the playlist. They don’t subscribe to Apple Music so I went to re-create it in Spotify. First thing it did when I named the playlist was give me song suggestions to add to the playlist. Many of them were the songs in my Apple playlist but also some my Apple playlist didn’t have. To me that’s a really cool feature Apple Music should have. Heck even Pandora provides suggestions based on what you’re adding to a playlist. In this instance Spotify was offering suggestions based on the playlist title. Another thing: Spotify won’t let you add a song to a playlist if it’s already there. You get a message saying the song already exists. Apple Music doesn’t have that so I often end up with duplicates. Another thing: Spotify rarely suggested a song from a greatest hits album. On Apple Music that was usually the first thing I saw. In my opinion Apple Music is not as good as it could be. If Spotify had the ability to access Siri and you could play Spotify playlists on an Apple Watch I’m not sure how well Apple Music would be doing.

Phil Schiller responded. These apps were using MDM profiles. That’s why they were removed. https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/27/schiller-screen-time-crackdown-mdm/