crowley

I don't add "in my opinion" to everything I say because everything I say is my opinion.  I'm not wasting keystrokes on clarifying to pedants what they should already be able to discern.

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  • Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

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    jcs2305 said:
    avon b7 said:
    There are pros and cons to having a headphone jack.

    It isn't about 'courage' though. That has nothing to do with anything. 

    Right now (2022) I'd still Rather have one than not have one.



    I thought the "courage" remark came when they killed the power brick in the iPhone, wit the 3.5mm jack? Both are silly examples of courage, but I just didn't think they said that same thing 7 years ago as well?
    No, he said it on stage about the headphone jack in 2016.  It wasn't said about the power brick.

    https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage
    muthuk_vanalingambaconstangdarkvader

  • Seven years later, Apple was right to kill off the 3.5mm headphone jack

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    An argument for why?

    You seem to have forgotten to include it.

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  • Judge approves Apple's $30M employee bag check lawsuit settlement

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    I wish this forum had a better search function so I could scan back to the original threads when this story broke and find out who was defending Apple.  There are bound to have bene some true believers who thought Apple were being persecuted.
    muthuk_vanalingamronnFileMakerFeller

  • Apple plans offering more advertising to users via apps

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    crowley said:
    davidw said:
    crowley said:
    docbburk said:
    If apple puts ads in core is apps, I'm  out.  That cheapens the product and knocks them down closer to the slime that is google. That would take the premium away from the product, so the only way it would be worth getting an iPhone is of they cut the price in half, or gave it away. I value not seeing BS ads and being spammed. 
    They already do.  I get bugged about subscribing to Apple Music pretty damn often.
    If you are using an Apple device, then technically, that is not an "ad". Apple is not making any money from charging themselves for placing "ads" advertising their own products. That is Apple promoting one of their own product, on their own platform. (Not that it makes it any less bothersome.) But it's something that the EU DMA say that "gatekeepers" can not do because its anti-competitive and that crybaby CEO of Spotify gets all bent out of shape about (when it comes to Apple Music). Not sure if the UK will be enforcing this when the EU DMA goes into affect. But it was also one of the main issue of the US Senate bill (pertaining to promoting ones own product on ones own platform), that hasn't been voted on yet because it doesn't have enough support. 

    It's no different than me getting bugged all the time to purchase more iCloud space, whenever it runs low on one of my Apple devices. Or walking into a McDonalds and seeing big posters on their special deal to "super size" your meal. Or while watching a TV show, seeing a 15 seconds blurb during a commercial break, reminding you to  stay tune for a new episode of The Simpsons coming up next.   

    Now if you are getting bugged to subscribe to Spotify (or me getting bugged to purchase more One Drive space), while using an Apple app on an Apple device, then that's an "ad". Apple is charging and making money from placing those "ads" in their Apple apps.  When you do a Google search and there are links that has the word "AD" in bold text and in front of it, those are links to "ads", that Google is getting paid for placing in your search results.    
    In all meaningful senses it's an ad.  Pointless post.
    No it is not! At least provide arguments instead of dismissing someone’s post with a juvenile one-liner. It’s arrogant and unnecessary.
    I value brevity over three paragraphs of uninteresting irrelevance.

    In the context of "I value not seeing BS ads and being spammed" then it matters not a jot whether it's an Apple "promotion" or a third party ad.  Either way it's BS spam.  I would've thought that would be obvious and not need explaining.
    elijahg

  • Seagate Expansion 8TB external hard drive review: No frills storage in need of USB-C

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    hagar said:
    Can we discuss the elephant in the room. If you connect this directly to your Mac, it’s going to slow down things considerably. I have a similar HDD for media files and Time Machine backups. Problem is that the drive spins down after a while and when I access Spotlight it will freeze until the drive spins up again. 

    This, combined with USB-A and Micro USB, and I don’t see how this is a good choice for Mac users in 2022. 
    https://osxdaily.com/2011/12/30/exclude-drives-or-folders-from-spotlight-index-mac-os-x/
    fastasleep