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hmurchison said:

entropys said:

Still at $149? What a joke. How can anyone recommend this to anyone else?
Old hardware rebranded. It’s insulting. Tim Cook talks the talk, but I suspect he doesn’t think much of Apple users.

One would hope the 4K version, which obviously won’t be getting an upgrade or better pricing either in the near future, comes with some serious investment in controllers to go with the Apple Arcade subscription.

Yup.  People won't even buy $99 4K Blu-ray players to go along with their new shiny premium UHD TV.   A 1080 Apple TV for 149.99 looks silly next to a Roku $39.99 4K HDR streamer. 

Except I have had both, and still use the Roku box, but the experience and ease of use of using the Apple TV is absolutely three times better than that $40 Roku box you mentioned. That thing is so terribly slow, and Roku apps are simply terrible. The $100 Roku box is a better comparison, but Apple TV, I would argue, is still at least 50% better than that too.

aaargh! said:

To be fair, Spotify has little choice but to use the App Store, it's not as if you can distribute iOS apps to consumers in any other way. Apple would have a point if Spotify could just put the IPA up on their website for users to download, but they can't. 

You’re missing the point. Simply using the App Store does not make Apple take 30% of Spotify’s revenue. The only portion of revenue Apple takes is of in-app purchases for Premium, and that drops to 15% after a year. Spotify could easily go the Netflix, Hulu, etc. route and simply not offer in-app purchases, instead relying on customers to be smart enough to open up Safari and sign up there. Netflix, Hulu, all the streaming live tv platforms, Amazon, etc. don’t seem to struggle with this, yet Spotify can’t seem to figure it out. Desperate move from a desperate company.

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

The tap tap series was awesome! 

To see some of them back would be great!

I agree, they were awesome games. Up until the last release, where they jumped head first into the micro-transaction rage. 3 songs on tap tap for $1?? No thanks. Now give me those songs in iTunes AND integrate them into the game, and we can talk.

As an engineer myself, this is the kind of crap that happens when the engineers get to do the product naming and marketing. My expertise is definitely NOT in marketing, but even I know this is going to be complete garbage to the average consumer.

seanismorris said:

I think this demonstrates the need for a modular Mac Pro.

Which is exactly what they said they were going to be releasing sometime this year, so Apple agrees.