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pepe779 said:

Seriously, who the hell cares. Her new singles became so annoying in the meantime that having the whole album available for streaming is basically irrelevant at this point. Or maybe this indicates that it only took 7 months for people to stop buying that album, so she eventually gave up and realized streaming services may actually generate some additional income after all. Maybe it's just me but I never understood why they're making such a big music icon out of this woman, because she's no better or worse than thousands of other artists and why there's so much hype around her, that's just completely beyond me. Even Taylor Swift has made much more clever moves in regards to streaming and in fact her music is so much better than whatever Adele has ever produced. Sorry, I just had to vent out

You have very poor musical taste and discernment, sorry, I just had to get that out.

digitalclips said:

What's a spinning optical drive?    I removed the one from my old MBP and added a second hard drive (SSD) years ago!

Its one of those things I had to buy a while ago because my MBPR didn't have one. 

wood1208 said:

If Apple wants to move away from 3.5mm jack/port than it needs to ship earbuds with lightening plug and adapter that let 3.5mm earbuds to connect to lightening jack/port. Than, in next iteration of iphone, just drop adapter. Who knows, by that time Apple will make available wireless earbuds based on BT5. No wires, no jack, no plug, no problem.

Just this weekend my bluetooth headset  went bleepety bleep in my ear while i was mowing to tell me its battery was about to die, which it then did shortly after,  so yes, problem - no wires, no jack, no work.

The old wired in-ears still worked though.

jungmark said:

I don't think Apple should pick sides no matter how disastrous a Trump presidency would be. 

Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc, etc - yeah, don't take sides or express an opinion.

I remember the days when people listened to a thing called radio to hear music.  This might sound unfair to the whiney Reznor, but listeners didn't pay to hear the music being played then either.   The radio stations paid a small royalty to the music companies, which passed on almost none of those fees to the artists, who then, as now, made most of their money from live performances.  These days the radio station is called Youtube and it pays royalties to the record companies, again, most artists would sell very little of that.

Not much has really changed, except back in the days of radio, artist would generally do anything and everything in order to get their music played by radio stations and so be heard by the public.  Publicity was all and they would destroy and vandalise hotel rooms, drive cars into swimming pools, have affairs with supermodels and conspicuously consume drugs in order to garner publicity.  I never once heard of artists asking for their works to be taken off radio and to not be played.

I don't think Youtube is stopping any artists from making a good living if they are producing works the public likes.