Japhey

cpsro said:

If this story is to be believable, I think we need to see what he looks like now.

mike1 said:

Is he suing his parents as well. They undoubtedly signed all the required releases.

If he didn't pose with the album cover, not a soul in the world would know it was him as a baby.

As usual, AI avoids several pertinent facts of this story. Like, his parents supposedly never signed a release for the photo and they were not compensated for its use. And you’re right, nobody would know, or even care, that he was the baby in the photo if not for him self-promoting the fact since he was 17. Plus, for someone that suffered “lifelong damage”, $150k per defendant (17 of them) seems sort of low considering his attorneys will end up banking a nice chunk of it. 

Eric_WVGG said:

I was all set to jump on the “holy shit Spotify is completely inept” bandwagon (I personally ignored Spotify in favor of Beats Music because of the latter’s superior Mac software back in the day), but these tweets by Marco Arment — creator of the Overcast podcast app, Instapaper, and some social network called Tumbling or something — made me think twice. 

“An app can support AirPlay 2 […] with a four-step process outlined on Apple's developer website.”
Those “four steps” from developer.apple.com/documentation/… are:

1. Set one flag. One line of code.

2. Add the AirPlay picker to your UI. Probably already there.

3. Respond to play/pause. Probably already do.

4. Rewrite your ENTIRE AUDIO PLAYER to use a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT API

…and that new API:

- is barely documented

- has no public sample code

- is full of major gotchas

- can’t change speeds seamlessly

- doesn’t provide precise timing

- requires much more complex logic

- is less efficient, which can cause background CPU-overage terminations

i spent about a month of last winter trying to make a music player in the vein of Poolside.fm. It turned out to be a total bust; iOS has (at least) three different audio APIs, with non-overlapping levels of functionality, and uniformly poor documentation. it fucking sucks.

granted, Spotify has enough cash to buy all the talent it wants, but I’m not at all surprised to hear that Airplay 2 support could require a complete rewrite of the core functionality of a very mature app. Audio APIs represent Apple technology at their worst.

Thank you for this post. As usual, I learned more from the forum than from the actual article itself. I know this will probably open Pandora’s box here, but do you think Apple makes it so confusing and difficult intentionally? 

Rayz2016 said:

Japhey said:

Cool. Now if only they can solve the problem of making people wait in line for 15 minutes or longer for online orders after they have received notifications saying that the order is “ready for pickup”. 

Your order is ready for pickup, unfortunately so were the other folks’ orders – the folk who understand  what “first come, first served” means and had the sense to arrive early. 

Maybe you’d have gotten to the store quicker if you hadn’t wasted time packing your entitlement.  

Maybe you’re right. Thanks for being a c**t about it though. I order online from many, many places, and NONE of them are even close to the same poor experience that Apple is. Macy’s, Target, Kohl’s, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, Whole Foods, Staples, local grocers, restaurants, fast food places…I could go on and on. The Apple Store has, hands down, the worst customer service of all. When those other places say your order is ready, they actually mean it. They don’t require you to plan half an afternoon around a simple pickup that shouldn’t take longer than 30 seconds to complete. But, as the poster above replied, apparently that experience is unique to my particular store. So, is it entitlement to expect my store to function more like his/her store? Or to expect Apple to actually live up to their reputation of being the best in customer service? I’m not sure, because the only people who really use that word are virtue signaling brainwashed media puppets. Is that you? Do you also toss the W word around a few times a day so that the kids all think you’re cool? Grow up man, think for yourself…resist the programming being forced on you. 

Cool. Now if only they can solve the problem of making people wait in line for 15 minutes or longer for online orders after they have received notifications saying that the order is “ready for pickup”.