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  • Apple to add green and lavender to next-gen iPhone XR color palette, report says

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    Apple should give the XR some bolder colors instead of the pastels imo.  A navy, an emerald, a burnt orange.  Anything like that would be nice.
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  • YouTube Music & Google Play Music pass 15M subscribers, lag behind Apple, Spotify [u]

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    davidw said:
    eightzero said:
    lkrupp said:
    eightzero said:
    I just discovered Google Play, and it kinda works for what I wanted it to do: stream my digital music collection. iTunes Match requires a yearly subscription, and it then requires a download to work. While GP is limited to 10k songs for free, that is enough for me. It does have is shortcomings (the app itself kinda sucks), but does work (after a fashion) with CarPlay as well. 

    Free is a good price.
    Well, it’s not really free is it. Your listening habits will be sold to advertisers. Remember, YOU are the product.
    Sigh. Kinda like the free service provided by AI? 

    Not even close. You're not giving Google nearly enough credit for doing what they do best and are best at, collecting data on everyone using Google anything and using that data in order to charge a premium to their customers, for placing targeted ads.
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    AI free service is not anything like the free service that Google provides. If this free site was run by Google, I wouldn't be surprise if they would be able to collect 5x the ad revenue, that Ai is collecting now. All AI really knows about the people visiting their site, is that they are interested in Apple. Either their products and/or the company itself. 

      
    This is wrong.  AI has a ton of analytics about site visitors.  AI uses Google Analytics. Google Adsense, Facebook Connect, and a host of other trackers.  So that I'm clear, that's not a knock against AI.  They gotta eat and keep the lights on.  So does every other Apple-centric  site.  They all benefit from an association with Google.  Most wouldn't exist without it.
    Again, not knocking AI, just refuting the assertions you made.  
    gatorguywatto_cobra

  • YouTube Music & Google Play Music pass 15M subscribers, lag behind Apple, Spotify [u]

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    AppleExposed said:

    1STnTENDERBITS said:
    davidw said:

    lkrupp said:
    eightzero said:
    I just discovered Google Play, and it kinda works for what I wanted it to do: stream my digital music collection. iTunes Match requires a yearly subscription, and it then requires a download to work. While GP is limited to 10k songs for free, that is enough for me. It does have is shortcomings (the app itself kinda sucks), but does work (after a fashion) with CarPlay as well. 

    Free is a good price.
    Well, it’s not really free is it. Your listening habits will be sold to advertisers. Remember, YOU are the product.
    Hmmm.  I was unaware Google sold anything to advertisers besides ad space based on anonymous aggregated data.  I guess we learn something new every day.  Google sells listening habits.  Good to know.
    The data is only anonymous to the advertisers paying google for targeted ads. The data are not anonymous to Google. Google knows who that data belongs to. But they don't reveal that to their customers. If they did that, then their customers wouldn't need Google to place their ads for them. Why would Google sell the cow, when they have customers lined to buy just the milk? 

    I guarantee you that Google knows the different buying habits of each type of music listeners and it will add to the accuracy of the targeted ads, that they sell to advertisers. Don't under estimated how Google can use what most might consider a useless piece of data, to increase accuracy and thus the price of their targeted ads. Google is really, really good at using every bit of data they can collect on you, in order to make you more of a target, for targeted ads.   

    If Google research reveals that male classical music listeners that are over the age of 40, are more likely to drive expensive foreign cars, then Google will use that data as a selling point to sell targeted ads to the likes of Mercedes, BMW and Porsche.  
    I think you have become a victim of Poe's Law.  Sorry for that.  Maybe I should go back and put some emoji in my comment.  I was sarcastically criticizing lkrupp's inaccurate assessment of what Google does.  I'm fully aware of what Google does and I'd bet good money lkrupp is just as aware.  It won't stop him from pushing that false "Google sells your data" narrative though.  

    If Apple sold your data you'd be on their ass like flies on horse shit.
    Yes.  Yes I would.  I would be on any company's ass that sold my data. Just like I would be on Google's ass if they sold my data.  Since they don't, I'm not.  
    Both Apple and Google do targeted advertising.  Both make the data anonymous and aggregated.  Both allow you to opt out of targeted advertising.  So why would I want to get in either company's ass?  If your goal was to imply some bias against Apple, you failed.  There's nothing in any of my comments in this thread that implies anything negative towards Apple.  My comments, as I've stated, are about the false narrative that lkrupp pushed in his comment.  It's simply not true.  To argue otherwise cognitively dissonant. 
    gatorguyAppleExposed

  • Renders of '2019 iPhone' depict square camera bump as part of rear glass

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    darren mccoy said:
    It would be less offensive if the bump was more central, maybe where the Apple logo is on the back.
    It does look better more centrally located, but I doubt Apple would do that since it would make the iPhone look far too similar to the Mate Pro 20.  Some would probably say it would only be fair since others copy Apple all the time.   Pretty sure Apple wouldn't think of it that way though.  

    Even though it looks better centrally located, it's still an ugly design imo.  Apple should do something else.  Considering these are still just rumors, chances are they will. 
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  • Expecting to pay up to $5B for Cambridge Analytica, Facebook sets aside $3B for FTC fines

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    "In terms of average revenue per user, Facebook reported $6.42 for the first quarter of 2019, up 16 percent year-over-year. It also reported daily active users of 1.56 billion, up 8 percent year over year." - from 9to5Mac article

    Until this is negatively affected, FB is going to be FB and continue FB'ing. They will weather any storm because their users typically don't care about the things that matter to the tech nerd crowd. They are well on their way to building a WeChat type of environment where almost every aspect of a users digital life can be accessed and managed through their software... without leaving... ever.  FB allows the masses to live their best life, be it real or imagined.  This fine, as large as it may be, will be viewed as the cost of doing business as long as the revenue per user and daily active user numbers remain positive.

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