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  • Apple responding to US government inquiries over iPhone throttling

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    metrix said:
    I find it disconcerting that people are dying in car accidents from the faulty Japanese air bags that haven’t been replaced because they have a huge backlog and hang ups but yet DOJ is more concerned about this situation. 
    I agree. Which (with such good intent on Apple’s side) is why they should have been transparent about the fact they were throttling speed.
    The moment someone has to discover a correlation between battery health and phone speed, is the moment you are in legal trouble.
    h2p

  • Apple HomePod smart speaker preorders begin Friday, shipments start Feb. 9

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    Rayz2016 said:
    CheeseFreeze said:
    “The HomePod is designed to work with an Apple Music subscription.”
    Apple arrogance in full effect. I won’t be able to tell Siri to play music in Spotify? Forget it! I can’t do it in the car either and it’s super annoying. Apple is still not opening up Siri fully while Amazon and Google do.

    To work with Siri, Spotify needs to write a connector, which Spotify hasn’t done.  
    Which Spotify isn’t ALLOWED to do. Siri is only open to specific kinds of software, and audio streaming services are excluded from this (because most likely Apple wants to make Spotify a subpar experience to Apple Music)
    williamlondon

  • Apple HomePod smart speaker preorders begin Friday, shipments start Feb. 9

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    “The HomePod is designed to work with an Apple Music subscription.”
    Apple arrogance in full effect. I won’t be able to tell Siri to play music in Spotify? Forget it! I can’t do it in the car either and it’s super annoying. Apple is still not opening up Siri fully while Amazon and Google do.

    Also quite surprising the HomePod doesn’t support stereo playback and do multi room at launch. 
    DavidAlGregoryfriedmudwilliamlondon

  • Siri learns to play news podcasts automatically

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    Still a long way to go for Siri. If you speak to Siri, the average answer is “here, take a look at your screen” instead of actually providing a spoken result recapping the information.
    No assistant currently is working that well, but at least Google’s assistant answers logically instead of dumping results to the phone’s screen. 
    williamlondon

  • Apple Music chief Jimmy Iovine expected to leave company in August

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    Meeting cofounder Steve Jobs and executive Eddy Cue back in 2013. He recalled that first meeting in an interview last year.
    And then...
    He ended up joining Apple more than 11 years later, as Apple sought to get Apple Music off the ground with the acquisition of the Beats Music streaming service.

    So this means he joined Apple in 2024?

    tycho_macuser