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Editorial: After taking the premium tier, HomePod will expand in markets Amazon and Google...
You can change the settings for a HomePod to turn off "Listen for Hey Siri" and turn on "touch and hold for Siri." If you trust turning off "hey Siri" on your phone, you can trust the same thing on a HomePod.DAalseth said:
The voice interface. Siri is listening for “Siri, play The Overture to The Marriage of Figaro”. Or some other command. I don’t want that. I have my phone and pad set to require me to hit the home button to activate Siri before I use it, just because I don’t want it listening all the time.StrangeDays said:
That isn’t the core feature of HP at all. The audio quality is. Voice is one interface, but there is absolutely nothing stopping you from using it as an AirPlay endpoint speaker only. In years past I even spent hundreds of dollars on such speakers from other brands.DAalseth said:
It might be a superb speaker, but as a core function it is a WiFi Microphone. A listening device in my home. While I trust Apple a hell of a lot more than Amazon or Google, I won’t have a listening device like that in my home. My privacy is important to me so even if Apple dropped the price to $30, I won’t have a HomePod.Befuddled observers demanded to know why was Apple introducing a product into the Wi-Fi microphone market dominated by $30 Amazon Alexa Dots.
So now what’s stopping you?
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Apple accused of stealing dual-camera technology used in latest iPhones
You think the dual lens setup on the iPhone is aesthetically displeasing, and you think they should replace it with a DSLR mechanism? That’s pretty funny.Conspiracy-Apple said:Dual lens camera doesn’t look good on the smartphone and it significantly ruined the design of every rear iphone in the past few years. should just develop an entirely new concept of smart DSLR camera device if so obsessed about taking great photos.
Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) refers to an optical dual-mirror viewfinder mechanism that enables the user to look directly through the lens to see exactly what the camera’s digital sensor will see when the user activates the shutter mechanism, which then momentarily flips the mirror that’s in front of the sensor out of the way so that the sensor can pick up the image. That’s not a mechanism that would fit into your pocket very easily.
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The worst Apple designs by Jony Ive, according to the AppleInsider staff
I’ve never understood the angst about the Magic Mouse 2 charging port. The critique above explains clearly why the port doesn’t need to be on the edge or top of the mouse. Less than a minute’s charge yields hours of use.
As as noted in another post above, a charging cable isn’t structurally designed to handle the motions and bending involved with being a mouse cord. Yet, you can rest assured that lots of people would just leave it plugged in all the time, damaging the cable and the charging port on the mouse as well. Then there would be lots of complaints and inevitable class-action lawsuits over the poorly designed charging cables and charging ports. And for what? Because users can’t wait a minute or two to charge up the mouse for a day’s use.
Or or they could put the charging port on the bottom of the mouse, so the user can’t misuse the charging cable, torquing, twisting and damaging it and the mouse.
No, Ive and Apple knew exactly what they were doing here, and they made the right choice.
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Eddy Cue says Apple Music has 60 million subscribers
Interesting. I just searched up that album on Apple Music, and it’s playing live recordings -scratches and all- with applause from an audience. These definitely aren’t studio recordings.GeorgeBMac said:
I totally agree. That is one of my two main complaints about Apple Music:gutengel said:Well the points of "not looking back" is pretty weak. Apple Music is very limited, specially when it comes to the music selection. Usually there's only version of each song and most of the time is the radio version, you want the the unplugged version, good luck with that, if the artist decided to pull out of Apple Music, good luck with that. iTunes is not about convenience, is an organisational tool for your music! Instead of playing with cards and keeping the music app as simple as possible, he should be fixing integration between apple music and iTunes libraries. I still got about 20% of my library no available on my iPhone, many of those songs are unplugged or live versions, but many are just exactly the same as the Apple Music version that the service doesn't recognise because its stupid.The best example I can give of that is the 1932 Benny Goodman Concert at Carnegie Hall. It was a historic ground breaking concert where "jazz" broke through into recognized respectability -- and Benny's band that night was comprised of what would become music greats such as Harry James, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton and others.
It was a truly historic event but the tapes of the concert were lost for decades. But, when they were finally found a 2 CD set of the live concert was published -- scratches and all. Apple has that 2 CD set on Apple Music but: THE SONGS ARE NOT SONGS FROM THE CONCERT! Apple replaced them with later, studio recordings performed by different people! And, they are totally different.
I guess to Apple Music a song is a song is a song -- and it doesn't matter what arrangement it is or who performed it. "They all look alike to me!"
That leads me to my other complaint: Apple replaced my music library with their versions of the same songs -- IF they even had that song in their library (if not they simply deleted it from mine). Apple could easily correct both problems by letting me keep my library (which would include the REAL Benny Goodman concert). But they won't. It's an "either/or" situation - you can either have your library or Apple Music -- but not both.
Perhaps your issue is with “music match” selecting the wrong tracks to match songs ripped from your CD. Sometimes that happens.
The Apple Music library, on the other hand, has whatever tracks are supplied by the record label. In this case, they have the 1938 live album from Columbia Records, now owned by Sony.
If if you have both the Music Match service and Apple Music, look not in ‘your library,’ but search AM for Benny Goodman, and you’ll find that album under ‘live albums,’ and it’ll have the correct tracks.
P.S. I thought I’d made a mismatch mistake myself, but the BG concert in question was definitely 1938, not 1932. And the correct recordings are there in Apple Music. -
Sidecar in macOS Catalina is limited to newer Macs, but there's a work-around
One could imagine that older models might introduce additional variables to the mix. So it's probably easier in the first beta to keep it limited and resolve the first round of issues before introducing the possibility of additional problems. It's probably a good way to isolate issues.
