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  • Apple sells out of Space Gray Magic Keyboard, Trackpad, Mouse

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    Will it be replaced with fruity pastel pink - because that's so hot right now.


    dysamoriawilliamlondoncaladanian

  • Apple awarding $5 million to four historically Black colleges and universities

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    Xed said:
    It's going to take a lot more money and a long time to remove the systemic racism that has kept African Americans in this country from getting an equal shot at success.
    Can you provide an example of this systemic racism that has kept AA down? 

    Beats

  • Former Apple CDO Jony Ive helped design the 24-inch iMac

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    jcc said:
    I would find it very difficult to believe that Ive had anything to do with this piece of turd. It’s so fugly that a first year industrial design student wouldn’t design this.
    As an industrial designer of sorts myself - bang on!
    There are so many flaws, I’m shocked this is actually an Apple product. 
    Let’s hope they don’t botch the real iMac’s. 
    elijahg

  • HomePod family will support Apple Music Lossless eventually

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    thedba said:
    crowley said:
    thedba said:
    elijahg said:
    danox said:
    Japhey said:
    AppleZulu said:
    It’s a typo, I’m sure, but on the linked Apple support page, under “How to listen to lossless on your Apple TV 4K,” it says you should first “update your Apple TV 4K to tvOS 11.4.”

    We’ve had lossless for years and didn’t even know it!
    This has just been a spectacular own-goal from Apple from the jump. The Bluetooth lack of support for Apple Music Lossless wasn't a giant surprise, but the messaging surrounding it all has been replete with holes, wrong information, and modifications for the last five days.
    An “own-goal” is a great way to put it. Some of Apple’s moves the last few months have defied logic. I mean, why even announce lossless until it was supported by the audio lineup? I don’t own a HomePod, but if I did I would be pretty pissed off right now. I’m really hoping WWDC will bring some unexpected new hardware announcements that will make sense of these seemingly erratic decisions. 

    The HomePod having wired in and out audio connections would have made all the difference (future proofed it), a great many more people would have bought the HomePod.
    You might want to double-check your comprehension of the concept of "future-proofing". Just as a hint, it does not involve integrating more legacy support for technologies that will be used less and less in the future.
    Only analog audio will never go away, because we as humans can only hear analog audio, not digital. The 3.5" jacks will always be present in the future for things like headphones, especially because they're good enough for 99% of the population to listen to music with. So yes, that would have been future proofing. Moreover, Airplay will eventually be abandoned, 802.11ac will become legacy, Apple Music will drop support for HomePods, and the Home app will no longer be able configure HomePods; much like the Airport configuration utility doesn't work for older Airport base stations. Then it won't be possible to play anything on HomePods at all. But with an analog connector, connecting to a HP would always be possible from almost any device, without having to deal with compatibility issues and the whims of Apple's software teams. 
    The reason why the HomePod does not have an Aux input jack is because it would probably sound like crap. 
    The power of HomePod and speakers like the more modern Sonos line, is in computational audio. Read the room and adjust accordingly. 
    Why would an aux input sound like crap?  Other speaker systems manage just fine, why can't Apple's?
    Because once you pump in the already processed analog signal, which speaker inside of the HomePod would do what? Other than a woofer tweeter breakdown what would the speakers encircling the device do? Pump out all the same sound? Definitely not meant to function like that. 
    Think of plugging in your iPhone to a car’s audio jack. What does that sound like in your car’s audio system?
    Now connect same iPhone to car’s Apple CarPlay system. I’m willing to bet the latter sounds much better. 

    I have a $400 aux cable running to a Dragonfly Red DAC to an adapter to an iPhone 11 - kills the USB CarPlay system in sound quality. How you feed the amp matters - regardless of the connection type. The mini aux jack is not going away anytime soon. Apple isn’t even a blip on the radar in the world of audio gear. This isn’t like the floppy drive or CD drive - they dropped the jack from their phones... that’s it. Besides, I wouldn’t point to a failed and discontinued product as an Industry trend-setting innovation. Lots of people hated the decision to drop the jack and I’m sure Apple could buy a small island on the back of lightning to mini adaptors they sold. Apple did it to push the sales of AirPods - not because the mini jack sounds bad. Reducing the footprint on a small device - sure, but again, nothing to do with sound quality.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • HomePod family will support Apple Music Lossless eventually

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    A quick refresher...

    2017:  - "HomePod is going to do to audio what the iPhone did to smartphones"
               - "Audiophiles are going to dump their $50,000 systems for one of these"
               - "I was at the Apple Store and an Audiophile said it was best thing he has ever heard"
               - "Apple is going to take over home-audio with these"
               - "Apple is going to destroy Google and Amazon with the HomePod"

    2021:  - "I hope my discontinued product can play cd quality music files one day..."
    crowley