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  • Sprint and T-Mobile could reach merger deal by next week, report says

    titantigertitantiger
    Add me to the list of "TMobile = great and Sprint = sucks donkey balls." Just left VZW this year to go with TMobile and I haven't regretted it one second.
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  • Spotify, Apple Music responsible for both rebound of music industry and dying physical med...

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    wozwoz said:
    Your article headline is confused and misleading:  streaming has had almost no effect on physical media sales - physical media sales have basically stabilised for the last 2 years. What streaming IS doing is causing the death of downloads (not physical sales). The old download age is coming to an end.

    The market is shifting into two forms:

    a) The STREAMING market for those who value CONVENIENCE over quality. This is wiping out the download market. Apple doesn't even sell iPods anymore.

    b) The PHYSICAL market for those who want ownership, COLLECT, and value QUALITY (CD resolution or hi-res (e.g. SACD), and vinyl)

    While there are hi-res download formats, their sales are a trifle, they cost more than SACDs, and while it may become possible to stream in CD quality or better as a default (without requiring specialist providers), the fact is that 99% of streamed data is low-res lossy data at about 1/8th the data throughput of CD, because most of the streaming market simply does not care: the model is all about convenience.
    I agree, though as the 'pipes' get better (5G, fiber), I could see services like Apple Music eventually move to full CD quality files (or better) instead of compressed 256k bitrates.  So then the distinction would just become about ownership vs greater access.
    watto_cobra

  • Spotify, Apple Music responsible for both rebound of music industry and dying physical med...

    titantigertitantiger
    I worked in the music industry from the mid 90s through the mid 00s and saw this transformation. We were printing money in the late 90s and within a few years it was in free fall. There's not really anything to do about it except adapt (and figure out a way to get fairer revenues from YouTube). I still buy CDs for full sound quality from certain artists that I know are particular about the sonics and have real depth to the acoustics of their recordings. And sometimes I buy a digital download of other artists so I can load their songs on my kids' phones who aren't old enough for unfettered access to Apple Music yet.

    But in both cases, I purposely stream their music from Apple Music when in my car or elsewhere so that they not only got the boost from an album purchase, but the ongoing revenue from streaming. Everyone else, I just stream if I'm interested.
    watto_cobra

  • Heads of US law & spy agencies say phones by Apple rival Huawei pose inherent national sec...

    titantigertitantiger
    wizard69 said:
    Given that Apples phones are also made in China they aren't anymore secure.    It might take a bit of work but installation of compromised chips is entirely possible
    Not even close to the same thing.
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  • Apple's shift in iOS development pace about evolving scale, not coping with bugs, says for...

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    waverboy said:

    That's some heavy PR spin.  iOS 11 has been the buggiest release yet.
    In what way would a former MS engineer be doing PR for a competing company he's never worked for?
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