I HATE APPLE

“I never wanted a home speaker until Apple told me I did”

I already have four amazon surveillance devices, I just want to make sure all the big tech companies have equal access to spy on me.

Jeff’s introducing all that extra data to the system to help wreck any spying initiative

2nd gen crap usually big improvement over 1st gen. Hold out for a year

― calstars, Friday, February 16, 2018 8:42 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark

sometimes there isn't a 2nd gen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Hi-Fi

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/apple-s-new-spaceship-campus-has-one-flaw-and-it-hurts lol

I forgot about the hi fi! Anyone here own one?

Everyone needs to chill and buy a 20 dollar HomePod coaster

http://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/15/pad-and-quill-homepod-coaster/

And besides it’s not only Apple designers that clearly, like my grandfather, cover every wooden surface with glass.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/sonos-one-white-stains-wood-homepod-3396911

lol my friend and I immediately said “we need to sell a homepod coaster to chumps” when we saw that initial story

of course someone beat us to it

Is the silicone foot colored or natural (semi translucent)?

Where I work we have had countertop-staining issues with TPEs but not really with silicone.

matches the speaker color, I think

Sounds like it’s meant to have firm contact with whatever it’s on for bass transfer, so using a coaster is dampening it a little

just buy a plastic placemat

I just bought a 10.5-inch Space Gray iPad Pro specifically to use as a coaster for my HomePod. It keeps the aesthetic intact, and the proprietary hardened glass of the Retina™ screen profoundly tightens the HomePod's (already unprecedently tight) bass.

(^ i can't tell whether he's joking)

you’re holding it wrong

Employees in Apple Park, Apple’s grand new spaceship-style headquarters in California, keep walking into glass doors and windows.

Despite warnings from a building inspector that people would not be able to tell where the door ends and the wall begins, at least three Apple employees walked or ran into the ultra-transparent glass hard enough to require emergency medical treatment during the first month of occupation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/05/apple-park-workers-hurt-glass-walls-norman-foster-steve-jobs

briefly covered here

Silicon Valley Techno-Utopianism

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Apple-Park-Transcript-of-911-calls-about-12723602.php

Not sure where else to ask this. Why does my iPod Nano screen look like this?
https://i.imgur.com/prDZDlw.jpg

It was fine yesterday. Grabbed it on the way out this morning and noticed it's all pixelated. What the hell?

Probably the display connector is loose/damaged.

You wouldn't know how to fix that, would you?

It looks p cool tbh. Like a kidney with headphones on.

XP you'd probably have to open it up and see if some flex connector is loose. Could also be RAM going bad. Neither of those options are easy to deal with with on an iPod...

I learned as much after some light Googling. And, apparently, they've discontinued the Nano.

Oh well, it still plays music and otherwise functions as it's supposed to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQKZGziMOoI

lol what is this trash, is this supposed to entice people to subscribe to Apple Music?

don't all of the streaming services have exclusive content now?

ugh, is that st vincent as well?

lol that's Alison Brie

lol ok, that's not as bad.

man, beck wishes he had annie clark collaborating

or maybe would if he thought about it, idk

happy w/ my apple music subscription but yeeeesh that video

I think Wright may be broken now.

I love my AirPods when they are working perfectly, which is as much as two thirds of the time

I hate the exclusive content racket. I briefly tried Tidal and its selection was so much worse than Spotify. I'm not paying for two or three different services, even if it means I never get to hear 4:44 or whatever.

But extra lol @ getting Apple Music for the new Beck album. Beck is so spent.

Kind of shocked that everyone is now fine with having long white boogers hanging out of their ears.

so if I sign up for Apple Music can I stream all the weird stuff in my library or am I just limited to whatever's on their service

iTunes Match comes with Apple Music now, so I think you're set

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204146

wait, is this new (Match being now bundled with Apple Music)?

sometime mid/late 2016 they rolled it in

how does apple music compare to spotify

btw lol at that beck video

iTunes Match comes with Apple Music now, so I think you're set

― mh, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 2:18 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well yes but itunes match doesn't really work

it’s worked well for my just under 100k song collection

works pretty well for me

It was rough going for me at first, but it’s working quite well for me now. Sometimes you’ll come up with an oddball version of a song when you were expecting something else, but not too often.

how does apple music compare to spotify

No comparison. It's better in most every way, especially if you use iTunes and have an iPhone. You can ask Siri to play any song; really convenient. You can save albums right to your iTunes library and automatically download them on your phone when you're off line.

Only disadvantage is if you like playlists. More people seem to use Spotify for shared playlists.

the voice activation/siri sounds appealing since use mine in the car a lot. Is it as deep as Spotify selection wise?

Almost exactly the same library; never seen anything on Spotify that wasn't on Apple Music. And it used to be Apple Music got pretty big exclusive releases for a while (Drake, Chance, etc.), though it's been a minute since that happened

Spotify has a slight edge in the algorithmic “for you” discover playlists but Apple has the edge in the curated essentials influences etc playlists. Apple has the suggestions too but they don’t seem as deep or varied. But the curated playlists are great. Something as simple as Beatles influences and you end up with a great mix.