I HATE APPLE

http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/4/8540935/apple-labels-spotify-streaming

I'm actually all for getting rid of the free tier of Spotify from a "let's pay artists" perspective, but Apple doesn't GAF about that.

isn't 25% conversion to paid actually pretty good?

I guess, but according to this, the royalty rates for the free version are only 1/10 those that are paid out for the premium version: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/11/26/spotifypremiumadsupported

I guess Spotify negotiated that with the labels hoping to convert customers to premium, but those are pretty shitty rates.

I can use my phone to connect to my laptop and control my itunes library using Apple's remote app. But I can't sync the same phone via the same wifi connection because itunes and my phone can't see each other. How does this even work?

http://i.imgur.com/oueOKdk.jpg

Fuck-off headphones probably the most important invention of the 20th c.

the cold apporache battles of 2015

ugh I have Bluetooth hearing aids and and I can stream music to them from my iPhone which is like wow the future is so cool and everything but then I don't have the physical signifier that headphones or earbuds provide and ppl try to talk to me and it's so annoying

I think that was the moment that made me realize headphones not only play you music but also tell ppl not to bug you, like who on earth wd ever be like "oh, a dude w/ hearing aids, he must be listening to music with his phone w/ the mic turned off, I better not try to talk to him"

wear earmuffs everywhere over your hearing aids

! Wow that's incredible Stevie. I had no idea such a thing existed.

Have you thought of gutting Apple earbuds and fashioning a way to hook them onto your hearing aids for when you don't want to be bothered?

maybe some chewing gum or Scotch tape

maybe just remove the hearing aids and listen to music and ignore people forever

yeah but when I do it w/ the hearing aids it offsets the profound low-tone hearing loss

like "wow so this is what bass sounds like"

Oh great, hard drive recall.
https://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive-3tb/
(taking mine to the Memphis apple store on Monday)

Every time I have to set up a new Mac I remember how horrible and annoying this company has become. So much useless bloatware shit to turn off - bluetooth handoff, iMessages, clear off 99% of the dock, 'natural' scrolling (there's nothing natural about reversing the way EVERYONE WHO'S USED A COMPUTER HAS LEARNED HOW TO SCROLL), no HD/etc. icons on desktop, no apps folder in dock on default so you can use their launcher bullshit, default security will only let you install from the App Store.

I started using Macs in 2001 because Windows was constantly in the way (more true than ever in Win8) but I'm wondering if maybe Win10 might actually be less of a PITA.

lol I like all those things except for a couple icons in the dock

Going back to 10.4 or something would probably look ugly as hell with the fake brushed metal and depth but I remember it as being a much better user experience.

Nah, 10.4 looks and is amazing. 10.6 with 10.7's UI might have been the sweet spot; all downhill from there

San Francisco font will help in the next iter imo

I totally leave natural scrolling on

10.11 is vastly better than 10.10, that's true. It's like a different thing entirely

seriously everything in milo's list is good and works well for almost all people. i mean by all means turn them off/revert them if you want, but they are good defaults.

Everything should be opt-in at all times - do you want your iPad to ring alongside your phone? Do you want messages on three devices sitting within 16 inches of each other?

everything should be opt in at all times?

yes and yes i have those settings on.

should the gui be opt-in? terminal is better imo.

i mean there are 1000s of legit complaints that fall under "apple isn't what it used to be", but choice of defaults is not one of them.

the ipad imessage thingy is opt-in, I reconfigured some stuff and wondered why my iPad wasn't getting texts

ipad imessage is enabled by default on a new ipad isn't it?

i think ipad sms message is enabled by default tbh

ah might just be since stuff reset when I swapped sim cards

Feeling a lot of these frustations. iMessage in particular. Nothing more frustrating than finding text messages you never got on your phone on your computer for some reason and wondering how many other messages you missed

i mean there are 1000s of legit complaints that fall under "apple isn't what it used to be", but choice of defaults is not one of them.

It's not 'choice of defaults,' it's that everything added to OS X since 2007 or so has been deeper control on Apple's part of your user experience. Because we have an ecosystem we need to push it on you as aggressively as possible.

not even complaining about iTunes, that shit is just beyond repair now.

right but your list was a list of defaults you disagreed with

"apple used to be so chill, just let the user get on with it"

you can't tweet what you're listening to in apple music unless it's available in apple's cloud, which seems dickish

Xp - defaults that force me into the overbearing and interfering Apple ecosystem.

I didn't say Apple sucks because the default folder view is icon style instead of lists.

"force"

i very sincerely love natural scrolling

lol I was just abt to post how I too <3 natural scrolling and have reversed the scroll on my Win 7 laptop to mimic it

natural scrolling is good

it matches the scrolling on the computers most people use most of the time (aka phones)

is natural scrolling that mouse wheel up = scroll down business? that can go to hell. i have to use a third-party program Scroll Reverser to fix that. you can't treat mouse wheels the same way you do for trackpads and touch screens.

drake the type of guy to use a mouse with a scroll wheel

it matches the scrolling on the computers most people use most of the time (aka phones)

But is opposite of the previous 10 years of trackpad / 20 years of mouse experience I've had and therefore so much more maddening than other Apple defaults that I change right away.

it seemed "natural" to me about 2 minutes after installing whatever os turned that on

also

INVERTED 4 LIFE

Take it to the gay thread.

My house is all-natural.

lol I was just abt to post how I too <3 natural scrolling and have reversed the scroll on my Win 7 laptop to mimic it

I have done likewise with my work computer

bros

natural is the best, especially on touch pads