kiltedgreen

Back in the day I had a mostly QUAD HiFi with Pink Triangle/Alphason arm and AT cartridge topped with ESL-63s. For regrettable reasons, that has all gone and now I have Apple Music and KEF LSX speakers which I use wirelessly but I also bought a dedicated headphone amp and QUAD ERA-1 headphones to make up for my loss.

When Apple debuted Lossless and HiRes I was thrilled. I could certainly tell the difference between AAC and Lossless but what about Lossless and HiRes? So, for those albums which offered both formats I downloaded both to my iPad Pro, and listened to each format on my headphones across about 6 different albums. I could just about convince myself that there may have been slightly more detail with HiRes, but given file sizes around 6 times bigger I decided to forgo the possible maybe advantages. I’ve stuck with lossless since and until I try again and miraculously notice a difference worth the pain, that is where I’ll stay.

I have a few apps on the App Store and it’s been blindingly clear for years that Apple breaks its own guidelines by anccepting apps that flaunt them.

One of my apps was for the Mac (I know) designed for writers to encourage them to write, not getting sidetracked into editing and so to get the bare bones down as a start. It allowed you to create a file, but not open one. You could only delete back 5 characters, paste was disallowed, the arrow keys had no effect and you could not save your work until you’d written at least 500 words. Apple initially rejected it because they said that it didn’t offer any particular functionality over existing text based apps. I replied and spelt out all the notable ways it differed from an ordinary text app and they let it through.

Then look at the thousands of hidden object games, the thousands of “Texas hold ‘em” style games, and many more. You don’t have to look far to see a huge number of games that apart from different images are virtually carbon copies of other apps by the same developer or other developers. This has been going on for years so it does not surprise me at all that the apps you mentioned got approved. It’s virtually built-in to the “review” process.

Zirlin said:

Put the MacOS on the iPad and watch sales skyrocket.

You’ve not been here long, have you?

decoderring said:

Believe me — Apple fanboys are a real reason to switch platforms…

I don’t believe you.

chasm said:

The European Commission works very hard at making Europe really unattractive to non-EU businesses. Apple is no angel, but the obvious bias in favour of Spotify is kind of ridiculous, but luckily they don't have a leg to stand on if this case goes to court, so my prediction will be that Apple will eventually prevail in this particular case.

How much longer the company will put up with the constant anti-Apple antics of the EU when Google is SITTING RIGHT OVER THERE VIOLATING EVERY EU DIRECTIVE ON PRIVACY remains to be seen. Apple would hate to give up the EU market but I have a feeling the loss of some products and services in the EU because of untenable regulations is going to be part of their future, which makes me feel bad for innocent EU consumers.

Weren’t pundits saying that the EU was anti-American businesses? Is it now only anti-Apple but they love Google and MS?