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  • This may be why Apple's Weather app doesn't show 69-degree temperatures

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    michelb76 said:
    Imagine Federighi coming up on the stage next time with all the announcements, and slips in that they fixed this. Nice.
    "One more thing:"
    watto_cobra

  • Lower 15% Google Play fee offered for Wear OS, Android Auto integrations

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    Beats said:
    IreneW said:
    Beats said:
    Android Auto and WearOS? What’s 15% of zero?
    I can understand your sentiment on WearOS, but Android Auto actually works very well (and is supported by all major players as far as I have seen).

    Supported. How many are used?
    I have no firm figures (and if I could get them I would most probably not be allowed to share them), but I can assure you that the vehicle OEMs we are working with wouldn't spend money on integrating and verifying Android Auto (or Car Play for that matter) if their customers weren't using it. It is quite expensive, and they are not stupid.
    Regarding the apps, you need to look no further than the usual suspects (Sensor Tower, App Annie etc) to get some indications. Should be similar to Car Play.

    Or what did you have in mind?

    tmay

  • Beats Studio Buds launches with ANC at $150, ships June 24

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     with outstanding stereo separation

    Well, we are talking about a pair of earbuds. How much more (or less) separation can there be?
    qwerty52

  • Apple's Eddy Cue says Spatial Audio is a 'game-changer' for music

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    genovelle said:
    rcfa said:
    Most people never heard of lossless? Really?

    Anyone who’s ever heard of these silver discs calls “CD”s has heard of lossless.

    Only Napster, music piracy in conjunction with slow internet, metered cellular data and expensive flash memory brought us the “blessings” of lossy audio compression algorithms.

    So, no, lossless isn’t “niche”, it was and should always be the normal case, lossy compression should be the exception.
    CDs are not lossless. They are limited to 16 bits and 44.1 kHz while lossless is at least 24 bits and 96 kHz. Every record theses days is recorded well above CD quality. 
    That is not really true (even if we ignore that "lossless" is completely undefined and a pointless term). 
    Exchanging audio files between studios, mix and mastering sites, and record companies, is most often 44.1 or 48 kHz and 24 bits. The latter to preserve headroom for the mixing/mastering and encoding process, but the "extra" 8 bits doesn't really carry any useful information in most recordings (and can certainly not be heard in any normal reproduction system).

    williamlondon

  • Apple faces higher taxes after G7 agree to global tax rate changes

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    larryjw said:
    elijahg said:
    crowley said:
    Maybe I will, maybe I won't.  But some people definitely won't, they'll go somewhere else, or put off that upgrade another year; 
    Which is exactly what I have done since Cook ballooned iPhone prices. I had a new iPhone every other year since the original, until the 6S. Since then I have only bought one: the X - and that was second hand. Cook's absurd pricing has caused them to lose a number of iPhone sales from a historically avid fan, and thus average revenue from me has nosedived in the latter 5 years compared to the 5 before. ASP is up, but that is meaningless. Many of my friends have switched away from iOS or are still rocking an ancient iPhone 6, and they all say it's down to the crazy prices.
    When I started my law practice back in the early '80s, I bought two printers. The fast dot-matrix printer cost me $1200. I needed a computer so purchased the Osbourne luggable computer for $1800, Z80 CPU with 64KB of memory and two floppy disks and 5" screen, all running under the CPM OS. My first large brief was 100 pages of Constitutional Law, printed on the second of my printers. The printer could print 10 characters a second max. It took 2 days to print the brief. I typed the brief on the Osbourne using the CPM equivalent of nroff and troff. 

    My first "smart" phone, circa 1995, was $1200 from Radio Shack, flip-phone from Verizon. I had no connection from my home. 

    When I was working my first job, circa 1970, at a UW-Madison lab, we needed a hard disk to run a real-time OS I had written for a PDP-8, which controlled lab equipment. It cost us $8000 for a 32K hard disk. Before that I had to write my software on a Classic Linc computer in the basement of the UW Hospital. Then dump the compiled code onto a paper-tape, walk the paper-tape back over to the lab and feed the paper-tape into the ASR-33 teletype and debug it, walking back and forth between the hospital and lab fixing coding errors. Of course, I had to work at night from 10p.m. to 6 a.m in the morning, because we were running experiments during the day. 

    You really have no idea how good you have it. 

    nadriel