neoncat

A YouTube Premium sub was a no-brainer to me as I started to follow more and more creators. I think I use YouTube way more than Netflix or any other streaming service at this point, really.

I didn't think I'd use YT Music much since I've subscribed to Spotify since they came to the U.S., but I find it's a nice way to divide certain tastes and styles of music and, as a result, get more focused recommendations from both services. 

tokyojimu said:

Should be pretty cheap since the composers are mostly long dead (and out of copyright).

Composers may be dead and no longer subject to copyright protection, but the performances and performers are not. Classical CDs (the ones that aren't, you know, "The 10 Best Classical Songs EVAH! Volume 37") were often more expensive back in the day due to the complex license and rights-management with more layers to it than standard ASCAP licensing for popular/modern music.

9secondkox2 said:

If a developer gets to avoid an Apple commission based on a successful customer facing outreach, how is that fair to Apple snd the massive financial investment in maintaining a great App Store?

ridiculous. 

It’s seems like the legit hard working people get shafted all the time and lazy freeloaders get everything handed to them these days. 

Apple itself, within its own financial statements, indicates that the margins on the App Store are wild—70% or more. Their "investment" is minimal. 

Also, calling the App Store "great" is hilarious in tis own right. Increasingly full of advertising and paid marketing puffery (you didn't think that editorial content you see about particular apps or groups of apps was free or generated by Apple out of the goodness of its heart, did you?), poor ability to surface apps from small developers, tens of thousands if not millions of copycat apps freely stealing the intellectual property of other apps, and minimal protection against bad-actor actions due to a fundamentally broken and overwhelmed review process. 

The App Store is a bare-minimum effort that makes Apple a shitton of money. That's their only motivation in defending it so aggressively, and creating this non-settlement to try and save the golden goose. Apple does a lot of things incredibly well and produces best-in-class products. The App Store is not one of them.

My goodness. As a parent with a young daughter of my own, this hit home. My sincerest condolences for your loss, and all the pain and suffering you have endured. Thank you for sharing such a personal story. 

yensid98 said:

 I hate the deluge of iPhone and Mac articles proclaiming to know what's going to be released next. I never read them or make any purchasing plans because of them.  

Sure you do.

AppleInsider, the site you've found useful enough to spend 300+ posts on, wouldn't exist if it weren't for juicy rumor articles. As wouldn't MacRumors, MacNN, and those that preceded them: MacOSRumors (boy that guy was a bit of a headcase—site is still up, tho!), and the granddaddy of all rumor mills, the column written by "Mac The Knife" in the back of MacWeek Magazine, a publication you had to *apply* get access to. Sure, sites like AI have grown and now offer a broad range of editorial content. But I'm sure they know what gets the most clicks.

So quit yer clucking. The more Apple pretends it's an impenetrable castle, the more its mighty walls will leak, the more it will spread far and wide. And closing your eyes and plugging your ears and going "la la la la" won't make it go away.