sakamura

Soooo... let me get that straight... We got a record label who just got the final tally on how many views happened on two major services. This number is actually relevant, as they are getting paid for each view, since they are the provider of the actual music and music videos. The artist gets paid by how successful this act is, and the final paycheck is equivalent to that number in there.

So, that record label gets the tally, and omgwtfbbqit ponies dieing, there's more views on Apple iTMS than Spotify! They announce this, saying they got more from Apple than Spotify.

Then, Spotify miraculously finds more than 90% additional views, days after, and Spotify (not the record label) flaunts that number saying omg we are much better!

We wouldn't presume Spotify would actually downball these numbers in order to pay less of the share to the record label, and, by extension, to the artist, aren't we? Like any artist would get approximately 50% of what they are supposed to actually get? Naaaahhh that must be unintentional!

But seriously, if they can "find" these so easily, that raises a huge question on how they actually tally these numbers, and as an artist, that would put a definite strain on that warm happy feeling of knowing you're in good hands. That's probably enough for asking an independent inquiry on grounds of potential breach of contract.

Created account to post here. Long long time Apple user, never had an Android, only bought 1 PC in my life (for work at a time Bootcamp was impossible). Am a developer and do create products for Android.

One thing Google is doing really well is Chrome updates, on all platforms, by default and without even having to ask for updates. If and when there is an update, It gets rolled out. Internal engine for HTML gets pushed all the time, any time, without reboot or even asking. Your Chrome is latest version, or penultimate. And it will be latest next time it can close a window.

This is the same for most Google-provided applications and services, and it doesn’t stop after 5 years. It’s ubiquitous and simply gets updated.

Obviously, not all phones have default browsers, no internal major version OS updates for core OS services, especially not vendor-specific, but a great lot of the outside contact points are being automatically patched out.

This is also the single biggest request I got from Apple, to actually support that. My kids have the previous gen iPads (3, Mini 3), I’ve had an iPad 1 for years without software update. At least keep on patching Safari, Mail, Security even if we’re not at latest official OS.

Similarly, I find it a blurry line between major version upgrade and minor version update. There are simply no more minor version upgrade once a newer major version is available. This leaves in the dark (and unpatched) millions of devices that cannot (or will not) upgrade. Maybe my company requres a x32 app to run and haven’t got a x64 version. But because once the mandatory latest major version is out, older users are left in the dark. Something Android users will simply not experience because of micro non-« wait for 30 minutes with a dead weight and a progress bar » updates.

In essence, I agree with the article and analysis as usual, but with a major caveat, which doesn’t seem to be addressed in the article: Android doesn’t care anymore on changing their OSes. You have a phone, it stays with the same core features, it zips as efficiently as 5 years ago (no bulky upgrade that has more features, true, but with a .0.0 version that’s much slower than the last upgrade) and it’s patched.