spice-boy

so each side has 6 users?

Apple please stick to hardware. As with most huge corporations your desire to "disrupt" to gain more power over another industry will leave that industry in shambles. Has music gotten better since iTunes? Publishers don't need your help and readers can only expect an inferior digital version. 

corrections said:

spice-boy said:

Apple needs to stay out of content creation and control. Popular music no longer has an edge, only dull mainstream artists are promoted and any performers considered too counter culture are dipped in sugar and gold to sell records and win awards. The music industry is down to 3 or 4 big companies which own all the once independant recording labels. Music today is made with a formula, soulless and controlled with an iron fist. iTunes should have been a platform to give independent artists a spotlight, to move our culture forward but Apple is not a culture company just a technology company. 

Orwell predicted a future where governments spied on its citizens, controlled what they read and ultimately their very thoughts. Orwell was wrong it is tech giants who spy on us for profit, try to control what we can read and how we express ourselves. In a flip to his predictions it will be government and citizen push back which will keep our society and culture free for the tech tyrants. 

That’s a lot of unsupported conjecture! When exactly did music lose an edge? When was popular music not formulaic and subject to some sort of control? 

Look at today’s top tracks and think about what you just wrote. Apple gets flack for curation and netting not to invite controversy, but it also brings in artists to its events who perform about everything from their  struggles with drugs (The Weekend) to the subject of terrorist mass shootings (Sia).

And if you like something far enough out of the mainstream to not be on iTunes, the technology is still there to get independent music from unaffiliated labels.

Also, please identify what culture is not somehow tied up in Apple today, or over the last two decades. 

All opinions come from a person's point of view, experiences and observations so "conjecture" is what editorials are about, predicting the future based on past and present events and trends

The heads of Apple want to reach the biggest audience possible, all corporations do this. The object is to avoid any performer that does not fail the grand ma test. "Oh that Taylor Swift is so cute and wholesome....". If Tay Tay is your cup of tea good for you but she is just another over produced, over groom performed designed for maximum profits. 

Apple is now creating itself as curator of culture, music, film and TV. Old Hollywood studios are not starting to look like the outsiders instead of the mainstream. 
This is dangerous to our culture when the content producers own the content delivery. I oppose Apple entering into the news media and especially the press. Amazon is a dangerous monopoly responsible for wiping out countless small businesses. Apple will be crossing the line soon as it's monopoly will need to be divided the way Microsoft was about 20 years ago. I am an Apple fan, love many products and services but I am also someone that can see the threat they pose with such power. I expect the usual insults and attacks from the usual suspects who post on AI daily but perhaps a few of you can see my point. 

Ssmsung makes very good tvs, appliances and more importantly phones which rival the iPhone. Consumers are fickle and the once fetish like product iPhone is just another mobile phone option although very expensive one at that. Think about with the release of every iPhone a Samsung is used at the best comparison by tech critics. I am not ready to switch to Samsung I just believe a younger generation does not necessarily feel they owe anything to Apple or it's products.

seanismorris said:

I’d generally say be the bigger man... but Apple use your billions and buy up all the patents and go full patent troll on Qualcomm’s ass.

Apple is still not big or small enough to go it alone on their own tech. Why buy the cow when you can get milk at a reasonable rate when you need it and without maintaining the cow? This is not the first or last time Apple will step patient dung so let the courts do their thing, sometimes you win and sometime you got to pay up.