I HATE APPLE

They’re just phasing out the store right? Not really a big deal tbh

Best way to buy downloads is as close to the artist as you can get, website or Bandcamp etc as everyone here knows. And iTunes is as removed from the artist as possible. So no big loss

in articles about this you always hear that downloads have dropped through the floor but it never seems to be considered that a certain perhaps unknowable percentage of that dropoff, possibly quite a large percentage, is down to apple putting all their promo energy and product strategy around apple music and running the download store as a frozen, bare bones service with no promotion, ux innovation or curation strategy.

in the world of streaming I'm confused about how to "give" music as a gift to girls I'm trying to impress people i know. it's ironic that in the "sharing economy" music has become so hard to make a nice gift of.

just text her a youtube link

yeah that's what i do, it's about as fun as collaborating on a google doc

i mean that's not entirely fair, the music does get there, but the link scrolls up and out of your life by the afternoon

it's the ephemeral nature of music in the 21c

tbf pre-20th century you would have to stand below her window and serenade her yourself, and the dulcet tones of your performance would be lost forever as soon as you were finished

somehow i think that would make a more lasting impression

not a good one, mind you

I wonder if this will include podcast downloads?

podcasts are downloaded directly from the providers' servers, apple doesn't store them anyway. it's just a subscription interface

I subscribed to Apple Music recently and I really like it. I have a itunes library of juuuuust under 100,000 songs and now those are all uploaded and I can stream them, in addition to those that Apple has. For 15 € a month my whole family can do this too. I haven't yet gotten streaming working on 4G but that may be some setting I need to change ; in any case my phone has 128GO so I can put lots of songs while on wifi. I dunno, it's way better than I thought---I'm happy to paying something for music, in addition to the slow but steady bandcamp type purchases I make.

So who in this bitch is buying a $/£4,999 Macbook Pro?

iMac Pro, I mean!!

Which is dumber: buying the iMac pro or a third of a bitcoin?

The iMac has resale value

podcasts are downloaded directly from the providers' servers, apple doesn't store them anyway. it's just a subscription interface

Oh! This is makes sense but is a minor revelation for me. Sure explains the wide difference in download speeds between the really popular podcasts and the indie ones.

iMac Pro, I mean!!

― Alba, Thursday, December 14, 2017 7:21 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looks really nice. looking more and more like the mac pro is gonna be done away with

the nice thing about iTunes is that you can legally from other countries that's impossible to get in America, although you do have to make a fake account with a fake address to do it. also, it will on occasion get some really impressive obscurities. I have no idea about Apple Music.

There are some things I'll absolutely be buying from the itunes store in the next six months or so which aren't available from any other download retailers (e.g. hovhaness recordings on crystal records, reissues of old Columbia LPs like charles rosen playing debussy and stravinsky conducting persephone with the nypo).

Is there a way to get dynamic syncing of photos between a mac and an iphone that doesn't involve icloud photo library? I've just imported recent photos from iphone to mac and then synced iphone through itunes. This has had the effect of creating a duplicate of every photo on the iphone. iTunes sends the photos to the iphone regardless of whether they are already there. Do I have to delete the photo library from the iphone and resync from Photos every time, or is there a third party solution?

Seems to make no sense having a 128gb SE if I can't dynamically sync with the Photos app on the Mac.

It sounds like you're importing and then syncing, and the sync is also doing a copy? Maybe try just syncing?

iCloud Photo Library is the only way to get photos to dynamically sync -- you turn it on and anything you take on the phone appears on the Mac and vice versa: you don't need to import them at all.

If you want two-way sync I think that's the only option really (apart from fakery like Google Photos or expensive options like Lightroom CC.) Dropbox and Amazon have sync-y things but no real Mac apps.

stet otm

I will never let Dropbox onto my phone again after witnessing it gobble up dozens of GB of storage for no discernible reason.

After just experiencing another crash apparently due to a faulty GPU (which will never be fixed because crash only happens about once a month and I can't afford to lose the 3+ weeks that it'll be in the shop), I realized that almost every single "modern era" apple device I've owned has had faulty hardware:

- iphone 5S - bricked during a firmware update (which I was conducting by the book)
- ipad air 2 - will no longer charge, apparently due to faulty Tristar U2 IC chip (cost to fix ~= cost to replace)
- macbook pro - persistent GPU-related crashes, similar stories on the internet suggest replacing GPU is the only solution.

meanwhile my Lenovo T430 is ticking away perfectly.

the iphone and ipad were just over a year old (funny how that happens), and the mpb is just over 3 years old.

iCloud Photo Library is the only way to get photos to dynamically sync -- you turn it on and anything you take on the phone appears on the Mac and vice versa: you don't need to import them at all.

If you want two-way sync I think that's the only option really (apart from fakery like Google Photos or expensive options like Lightroom CC.) Dropbox and Amazon have sync-y things but no real Mac apps.

apple's about to shit up one of melbourne's best public spaces with this fucking monstrosity

http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/9275774-3x2-700x467.jpg

pay your tax or get tae fuck

for years I put in the work to keep iCloud turned off, and it was relentless work. at first they'd just quietly turn it back on whenever you allowed an iOS update. then I made the the decision when I bought a 6S last year never to update iOS, ever. then it started throwing 'your photo library needs optimization. turn on iCloud?' dialogues every time I visited my photo library, even though I had 40G+ free space on my phone. every time. I would say no with every visit to photo library, but I suppose one night checking my phone very late I might have accidentally clicked yes, even though I have no memory of that -- and in the morning, it had synced through iCloud and downloaded duplicates of all the photos I'd manually copied over to my main computer, dated as if they were new photos, strewn throughout my chronology. can't find anything now.

now when I try to turn off the iCloud it says this means it will mean losing photos. I eventually got around the daily dialog to subscribe to a new monthly fee for more iCloud storage by copying all old photos to another hard drive and deleting everything.

I don't normally take any photos I'd need to keep private. but it's pretty shocking what happens to any user who tries to turn off iCloud -- just try it

I've never set it up.

thanks for the warming milton. i never ended up going ahead with it and probably won’t now.

I have it on but never for photos, which has suited me fine.

This intentional throttling thing could have made sense if they had presented it as an option or a feature prior to its being discovered by a customer

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/21/apple-lawsuit-slowing-down-old-iphone-models/

f u apple

I just can't get over how consistent the Apple forums experience is. Another classic example: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5437358?start=0&tstart=0

How does that kind of forum culture emerge, where everybody is absolutely incorrect about everything all the time, have zero self-awareness, and seemingly cannot even understand the english language when it's inconvenient to them?

Sorry, I know no one cares (rightfully), but it's just so mind-boggling to me. I'm not looking for these, they just come up as a result of routine google searches, and the "high level" forum regulars are absolutely incorrect, EVERY single time! https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6648401?start=0&tstart=0

That kind of thing is so common in many tech support forums. Always so many people with low reading comprehension skills that think they are experts at everything. If anyone points out that they might be wrong, instead of questioning themselves they just double down. It is maddening.

I was joking a while ago that Apple has really made it, because forum posters seem identical in tone and information level to Microsoft-related forums in the late 90s

really need people insisting you edit random values in app setting files that they have ascribed significance to get to the “change this random registry entry” level though

I've been getting hit with the "Month 13 is out of bounds" console spewage: https://robservatory.com/month-13-is-out-of-bounds/ - f'in annoying

Same, had that at work. Between this and the completely off half-of-screen-nowyouseemenowyoudont-push-notifications of the latest iOS, it's safe to say Apple is making a right mess of things right now. Beggars belief. I can't possibly ask my director, yet again, to buy into this for my team any longer. Which sucks, because change suck. But iOS/apple has become completely unworkable. Guess I'll get acquainted with Android :-/

>I have it on but never for photos, which has suited me fine.

― Alba, Wednesday, December 20, 2017

expert life advice, thank you

One of the USB-C ports on my six month old MBP went out a couple weeks ago and I finally got around to getting it fixed. To Apple's credit, they had it fixed it in four days but the whole experience this time rankled - especially taking a day off to sort through "this Time Machine archive is newer than the installed OS" b.s. to just restore everything back. I dunno... I keep thinking about the apocryphal F-16 story - great plane but a software bugs caused it to flip over into inverted flight when crossing the equator

https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/

if there's anything good to come of this, us$50 off replacement batteries for a year is not terrible. shame their hand had to be forced though.

there needs to be a word for this kind of apology which is only issued two weeks after someone exposes your bullshit.

Agree, $29 for a battery is damn good

I think they completely fucked up but I also think this was some well-wishing engineer’s idea that was poorly implemented and not a cynical way to market new phones. I might be completely naive, though

targeting an acceptable number of running hours and prioritizing that over some speed makes sense, doing it to a noticeable point, and also not making it a preference you can turn on, smells like an attempt to head off battery complaints without the debate putting it in as a setting would cause

now they’ve got the debate and backlash anyway

I have a 7 and I’m on 11.2 so for me the paranoia begins

fuck Apple

nice, gonna send in like 5 phones for battery replacement.

has to be 6 or later model

oh i read that as later as in older