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coughingllama said:

AppleZulu said:

coughingllama said:

StrangeDays said:

While it’s not for me, I do think it’s funny how the this demographic loves it when Boba Fet or the Mandalorian insists on hiding his face, but not when a woman does it. Examine your biases, my dudes.

Call me when Boba Fett or Mandalorian are forced to cover their face because of their gender and are treated as second class citizens and not allowed basic privileges like driving. Stop thinking that normalizing misogyny makes you progressive.

One would think that a person concerned about misogyny would want to encourage the academic achievements of a victim of misogyny as a potential means of breaking free from it, rather than participating in the misogyny itself by dismissing the featuring of her for her academic achievements as merely "normalizing misogyny."

I think in your effort to sound magnanimously intelligent, you forgot to notice that nothing in my statement is directed at her coding acumen. You conveniently assumed that to bolster the statement you've come here to make. However, in your quixotic quest, you've conflated academic achievements as a replacement for gender equality and freedom. Sit down before you hurt yourself with all the mental gymnastics.

You’re funny. Your failure to note her achievement is precisely the point. Her intellect demonstrates exactly why misogynistic restrictions should be removed. Ignoring her achievements so you can dismiss her inclusion undercuts the one thing she has going for her. You impose an all-or-nothing judgement that would condemn her to nothing. 

xyzzy01 said:

CuJoYYC said:

I'm sure the delay is Apple's fault.
 

That's likely, actually. Before Apple launched lossless with no change in price, it was an option that came at a premium. When Apple just included it in their normal subscription, launching it at a higher price tier was less attractive - and adding it to their normal subscription wo ld just cost Spotify more in fees and bandwidth.

Spotify makes their living from their service, for Apple it's just a part of keeping you in the eco system.

Apple's decision to make lossless and spatial audio formats available at no extra cost is what moved those things (particularly spatial audio) from niche formats into the mainstream. Tidal had Dolby Atmos a year before Apple, but paying extra for it was a truly unrewarding experience. The extra cost kept the user base small, which made the incentive to produce and make content available in those formats correspondingly small. It was a death-spiral. A few months after signing up, you'd listened to what they had, and new premium content was arriving at a slow trickle. Then Apple opened lossless and spatial audio up to all of its subscribers, and there was suddenly a reason to make the effort to produce and master lossless and spatial audio content, and there's been a flood of it rolling out since.

On the one hand, that surely threw a kink into Spotify's plans of charging a premium to pay for building out the storage and bandwidth, but on the other hand, because of Apple, there's already a lot of content produced and made available in high resolution formats. 

It's interesting, however, that even at this point, it looks like Spotify is wimping out quite a bit. There's no mention of spatial audio at all, and while it appears they're going to have full 24-bit depth on the vertical axis, they're limiting the sampling rate (the horizontal axis) to 14.1 kHz, the bare minimum to qualify. Apple's lossless streaming is up to 24-bit/48kHz, and you can download 24-bit/192kHz audio files. 

While it's true that Apple has a whole ecosystem to support their decisions, it's doubtful that they're taking a financial loss beyond the very short term to implement their lossless and spatial audio music formats. I probably wouldn't recommend investing in Spotify, because they truly seem to lack the fundamentals at both ends of their business. They're on the low end for paying out to artists for content (the thing they sell), and are clearly struggling to generate the revenue required to keep up with the now-inevitable shift to lossless and spatial audio formats, the merging standard for the thing they sell. Talk about a death spiral, you may be looking at one right there. 

That's usually a good query to test internet connectivity. 

Siri changing responses to or otherwise fumbling previously reliable queries can sometimes be an indication of back-end system upgrades underway. I think it was yesterday that my usual verbiage for a request to play my local public radio station yielded unexpected and suboptimal responses. So maybe something's up.

magman1979 said:

Apple needs to DRAMATICALLY pull back on all this ESG and DEI bullshit, this will only ruin their reputation.

Or -now hear me out- given that Apple is a company with global reach and its customers are all around the world, maybe broadening their scope beyond white midwestern American men is a good business decision. Likewise, developing an operations model that isn't dependent on perpetual, increasing environmental degradation and destruction is also a good business decision. Besides, exactly what reputation is it you think will be ruined? 

coughingllama said:

StrangeDays said:

While it’s not for me, I do think it’s funny how the this demographic loves it when Boba Fet or the Mandalorian insists on hiding his face, but not when a woman does it. Examine your biases, my dudes.

Call me when Boba Fett or Mandalorian are forced to cover their face because of their gender and are treated as second class citizens and not allowed basic privileges like driving. Stop thinking that normalizing misogyny makes you progressive.

One would think that a person concerned about misogyny would want to encourage the academic achievements of a victim of misogyny as a potential means of breaking free from it, rather than participating in the misogyny itself by dismissing the featuring of her for her academic achievements as merely "normalizing misogyny."