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Lossless streaming option for Apple Music may launch within weeks
In answer to Beats:
Years and years back. It’s not lossless - there are some detailed descriptions of MFI online, maybe on Apple’s website. The weird thing is Apple doesn’t make a point of telling you which albums are. Sometime yes, often no. I have MusicSmart, which indicates if a song is MFI and without it a lot of the time you’d never know from looking at the album page. Weird.
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Apple's Lisa Jackson says a green economy is better for the planet and business
“A green economy is better for planet and business”
well, without something like a “green economy” there won’t be any business, so yes. The life-supporting processes of Earth were there first, and if they go, then ...
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UK NHS coronavirus app update blocked for breaking Apple, Google rules
The entire thing, along with most aspects of the pandemic handling by our inept government have needed up being outsourced and cost huge amounts and invariably fail to do what was needed. The “NHS” app is one of those - a summary from Wired https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-tracing-app-scrapped-apple-google-uk
The UK government is changing security laws to allow them to get away with more intrusive operations with no comeback and the idea that this latest attempt to grab more information from us English citizens is a “misstep” as the BBC irritatingly call it is laughable. I’d call it our lot seeing what they could get away with - “Oh, I didn’t realise we had to comply with the terms we signed”, rather like the government has done with the EU over Brexit:“Under the terms that all health authorities signed up to in order to use Apple and Google's privacy-centric contact-tracing tech, they had to agree not to collect any location data via the software.As a result, Apple and Google refused to make the update available for download from their app stores last week, and have instead kept the old version live.
When questioned, the Department of Health declined to discuss how this misstep had occurred.”
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HomePod is sold out, but isn't dead yet - Apple's 'end of life' explained
I was a bit gutted.
I have a pair of QUAD ESL-63s that still work superbly after buying them in 1987. Heck, QUAD’s original ESL, introduced in 1957 is still regarded by some as one of the finest speakers in the world. So four years?
Due to space concerns now, my ESLs and big chunky power amps are total overkill and/or I don’t have the space. The HomePods seemed a viable alternative, taking up minimal space and sounding pretty good for the size (too much bass though). I knew that being a processor, WiFi type of software/hardware thing it was at risk of the usual fate of computer products. But 4 years was a lot shorter than I expected!
What happens when AirPlay 3 is the thing and HomePods are stuck on V2 with no update path? That’s my concern. Time will tell.
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Huawei debuts Mate X2 folding phone, starting at eye-popping $2,785
avon b7 said:They are expensive and delicate. If you have the money to buy one, you will look after it.
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I consider the cost of an iPhone, even the cheapest iPhone to be an expensive piece of kit, yet people drop them, throw them, smash the screens and who knows what else. I’ve owned various Apple touch screen devices continuously since the iPod 2nd generation and none of them have ever been in a case. Not one of them, since that first one, has even had a crack or chip in the screen. They are expensive and should be taken care of. Given how people trash their iPhones, even IN cases I don’t see why a nearly $3000 phone would be treated much different.
