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Compared: Apple Music vs Spotify in 2022
Agreed. Hugely frustrating and baffling as to why that’s not fixed yet.sflagel said:This comparison leaves out the most important aspect, the curated and algorithmic playlists. They are much better on Spotify. Also, Apple messes up my bought and my streaming tracks, regularly playing a streaming version that I did not want to hear instead of my owned track. Weird and annoying.At least include a toggle for the same song to stream or play purchased item.Sheesh.Would go a long way to getting Apple Music accepted in professional and large venue circles as well.
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Compared: Apple Music vs Spotify in 2022
I don’t know. I’ve been a die hard iTunes guy for a long time. When Apple Music first came out, it was a mess. It’s much better now, but still has issues. Just buying a song vs streaming it should not be so quirky at this stage. I like the Apple app design aesthetic better but the curation has been a miss.Appleish said:One service has far better sound quality, great curated playlists, and is integrated into iOS and Mac OS.
One service has Joe Rogan.
The priorities of Apple Music won me over.Objectively, Spotify has done a great job of keeping everything very intuitive and simple whereas Apple Music has sort of lost the apple simplicity.Give me Apples aesthetic and catalog and Spotify user experience snd it would be perfect. As it is now though, The UX of Spotify makes it far easier to enjoy.Had Apple Music since launch - put up with the early mess and lingering quirks because I wanted to support it. But after using Spotify later on, I was struck by just how much more apple-like the Spotify experience was and is.What apple did to revamp Apple Music to be useable as it is now, they need to do another round to make everything dead simple. You shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to do anything, no matter if it’s a very common operation or not.While they may come out even on paper-or perhaps and edge to Apple Music, it’s a totally different experience IRL. Daily living with Spotify is far easier and more enjoyable. It pretty much gets out of your way so you can do what you wanted to start-enjoy content.Spotify wins this one. For now. It has most everything Apple Music does and just plain executes better.Also, if I had to choose between joe Rohan’s podcast and dr. Dre’s podcast, I’d probably learn something listening to Rohan vs having further brain death listening to Dre. Not the greatest comparison there.
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EA reportedly tried to sell itself to Apple
Apple should do this. EA is huge with fantastic IPs.That would provide Apple with tremendous leverage in the gaming scene and plug the only hole Macs have.Mass Effect
F1
Dragon Age
Fifa
Need for Speed
Titanfall
Battlefield
Command and Conquer
Dead Space
Numerous Star Wars games
Etc etc etc
its a treasure trove.The Bungie acquisition gave Microsoft the must-have it needed back when.This would do that for Apple.Apple Arcade is crap. Sorry. It’s a joke. It’s the same as not even trying. Just a way to get recurring payments from people who don’t buy games much. In the beginning, it was a way to focus on higher quality mobile games. But now it’s just a subscription tier for the same old crap.Apple has the ecosystem, hardware, software, APIs, and trusted brand to dominate the gaming industry.Focus on M2 Pro based “Apple Arcade” console (or have a new Apple TV+Arcade higher tier device), Mac and iOS and then port the games to third party console and pc a few months later. Create movies and tv series with these IPs and feature them on Apple TV+. It’s a business that wouldn’t be denied. So much potential here.
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Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over high fake user count
Two words:waveparticle said:
Twitter board accepted his offer. For this to happen, Musk is required to put some money down. He cannot just walk away free.DAalseth said:
That’s making the assumption that Musk was ever actually planning to buy Twitter, and that it wasn’t just another stock manipulation grift.maximara said:
What in the world is this nonsense? Musk's price was based on Twitter's numbers being "real" and the SEC's job to check if what is being claimed is real. As "Sources: SEC Didn’t Keep a Close Watch on Enron" shows "The agency (SEC) relies mostly on private-sector accountants, investors and even the news media to bring serious problems to its attention."mike fix said:I thought Felon Musk was going to put an end to the fake users himself?
Just another grift.
false pretenses.Or one word: fraud.Twitter lied. Musk doesn’t have to pay a cent if he decides the steaming pile cannot be cleaned up.But he’s said he sees it as a free speech platform for the world potentially. And that’s a lot of motivation.
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Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over high fake user count
Just another reason musk is so successgul and the right guy for the job in running Twitter.The current CEO basically lied to the public and the government to cover them incompetence of he and his pals. No wonder it’s been such a one sided political mess.Musk will likely come back with a high, but still lower offer.A solution IS available however. The current leaders simply have to get off their butts and address the problem they’ve allowed (enabled?) to fester. Don’t lie about it people. Fix it.A sample size of 100 isn’t going to cut it. And where is the proof the sample was random… it’s obvious the whole thing was a purposely misleading lie. Now they’re caught. Let’s see if the current gang has any scruples to admit it and fix it.
