larz2112

longpath said:

About bloody time.....

Agreed! With the scourge of bloatware, I was beginning to think optimization was a concept that has been forgotten. I'm assuming, and hoping, this improvement is cross-platform because I use Chrome on Macs and Windows systems.

macxpress said:

larz2112 said:

sog35 said:

Soli said:

sog35 said:

I like Apple music.

But what pisses me off is CarPlay+Apple music.

I connect to USB and CarPlay automatically plays a random song in my library. So irritating!!

Why the hell does it play random songs? Why can't I turn of this feature!!!!

I'd be much happier with that bug than the bug I have, where it always plays the very first track in my music library. I now hate that song because it's started up so many times after plugging in the Lightning cable.

It use to do that to me also. But that isn't so bad. Just name a random clip of no sound and name it AAAAA.  And it will play everytime.

In my car it plays a random song, even songs not on my device. Which pisses me off anytime I have friends/family with me. I don't want explicit songs playing full blast at random when I have my nephews with me. Is pure stupidity.

In the iOS9 you could select AppleMusic on your phone to only play downloaded songs. Now that options is GONE in iOS10.  Its to a point I had to delete a ton of my songs just so they won't play at random times. Hate it

These are great examples that illustrate what I've pointed out in other threads. Over the past few years the iOS GUI has, in my opinion, become less intuitive, and more tedious and conspicuous. Sog35, your solution of "Just name a random clip of no sound and name it AAAAA.  And it will play everytime." sounds very similar to the dozens of solutions I've come across when I've had problems with my Windows 7 work laptop. It is a work around to accommodate poor design. I used to eagerly look forward to the next OS X or iOS version or update. Now I'm slowly becoming one of those people who waits a while to see what's been screwed up before I decide to install. It never used to be that way with Apple, but now it is. Such is life.

With every major update in OS X its broken something or something didn't work like it did before. This is nothing new. Maybe not in your experience, but it is nothing new. When you do a bunch of things to the code of your OS whether its an improvement, addition to an existing feature, or simply a new feature it can and will break something and all the beta testing in the world can't fix everything before its released. This isn't new and has been happening since OS X 10.1 until macOS Sierra. Same goes for iOS. 

I'm quite familiar with coding, compiling, version checking, bug tracking, alpha and beta testing, etc. I've been using Macs for about 25 years and I've worked on my fair share of GUIs. In my opinion, over the past 3-5 years the GUI design decisions have gone downhill, and the number bugs that persist through multiple updates has increased. Stuff breaks and stays broken longer than it used to. I understand why; more people working on much more code, and more opportunity for mistakes or bad decisions. That's why I said "such is life". And when I said "it never used to be that way" I didn't mean that there were never any problems. What I was referring to was that I never used to hesitate to install the latest update, but now I wait.

Nice review. The most comprehensive review of the the iPhone 7 & 7 plus cameras I have read so far. It's pretty impressive that we are talking about a camera in a phone. But then again, it's a phone that costs as much, and in some cases, more that a respectable DSL camera. (I don't think your breakfast looks that bad)

zroger73 said:

goodbyeranch said:

digitalclips said:

True Bokeh isn't simply a blur.  

Aaaaand this is why art people are so annoying..

Well, 'tis true that there's more to bokeh than averaging pixels.  

Yes, we are all annoying in our own way goodbyeranch. I would say the new Portrait mode simulates depth of field but not necessarily bokeh, as the author of this article claims. Bokeh is a specific type of background blur, usually involving circles (like the ones in digitalclips' parrot photo), which can be manipulated using depth of field and different types of lenses, but they are not the same thing. Anyway, I think Portrait mode is a great new feature that I've been looking forward too. Yes, it's not prefect and prone to glitches, but I'd still rather have the feature on a point-and-shoot camera than not. Here is an article that does a pretty good job of explaining both depth of field and bokeh for those not completely familiar with the terms and how they are different.

http://digital-photography-school.com/understanding-depth-field-beginners/

sog35 said:

Music streaming needs to be cheaper to get wider adoption and grow revenues
The prices are way to high right now for mass market adoption.
For the mass market playing more for streaming music versus Netflix is nutty.

I disagree. Let's say you pay $10/month for streaming music. You listen to music when you are working, driving, exercising at the gym, cleaning around the house, jogging, partying, etc., and on average you listen to music about an hour a day. So that's about 30 hours each month. At $10/month that's 33 cents per hour of listening. And if you listen to more than an average of one hour per day it's even less than that.