I HATE APPLE

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.

apple has a much higher library limit, 50k i think. Spotify is STILL 10k

apple is 100k actually

Spotify still has the 3,333 offline song limit (per device). Another thing that drove me to Apple Music.

i <3 allison brie but not enough to pay for Apple Music

Spotify still has the 3,333 offline song limit (per device). Another thing that drove me to Apple Music.

me too. can’t believe spotify just left it like this.

If you have an existing iTunes library on your phone, then it's a no-brainer imo - Apple Music has everything integrated in one place, with similar ratings system and smart playlists that don't differentiate between your own music and the one you subscribe to.

That’s the bit I hated most: some things could go to iPod, some things couldn’t. Some things would disappear because of rights, some things wouldn’t. Some things deleting was fine, some things it was a Big Mistake.

Hmm haven’t encountered that, but I’ve only been on it for 4 months

i'm quite surprised at this since I've never heard anyone say anything positive about apple music.

taking holiday photos has been an absolute god damned nightmare because apple still can’t get gestures right. swipe from lock screen unless it picks up your fingerprint in which case it’s an up-swipe unless it’s snapped to horizontal in which case it’s an up-swipe from the left edge unless it can’t be fucked picking up an edge swipe as an edge swipe because it has no fucking idea what an edge is

sometime mid/late 2016 they rolled it in

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/04/05/new-mac-pro-wont-arrive-until-2019/

honestly the gruber take on this is just embarrassing

"fantastic news"

All people want is a high end CPU, a bunch of memory, and expansion slots. How hard is this?

I really have no idea what the fuck they're doing with the Mac Pro

I don't think the iMac Pro is a bad product per se, but it's a clear admission that the need to design an object is getting in the way of releasing anything at all. As in there's apparently no way to shoehorn new components into the trash can model, they don't have a new case/design, and it's easier to make a fat iMac than compromise on aesthetics and just release an ugly desktop or retrofit the old design (Ive screaming "never go back" maybe)

I think they've been hemming and hawing internally about what the roadmap is as far as switching to their own processors or integrating both as a stopgap that's just resulted in releasing nothing for five years

I would guess the hardware implementation dudes have been fighting the design dudes and it's gone nowhere

I think they've been hemming and hawing internally about what the roadmap is as far as switching to their own processors

― alvin noto (mh), Friday, April 6, 2018 8:25 AM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're not likely to get scooped on this but I still wish they would hurry it up

just put the iMac Pro motherboard in a metal box and graft some PCI ports on to a riser card ffs

kind of hilarious to me that stores were discounting the iMac Pro by $1,000 just a few weeks after release

it's the bizarro world where you can get a steep discount on a new machine, or buy the exact same mac pro they've been selling for years for.. $3-4k ?!

https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is-ruining-my-life

i assume yall talked about this already? lol

I'm using one of those right now and the keyboard is truly fucking awful.

just hating the iphone right now, upgrades, the company's abusive attitude. is there another phone option out there that's a little more humane? i don't need a virtual fucking wallet, i just need phone, internet, music and a company that isn't going to fuck my shit up on a regular basis. anyone who has migrated to android or whatever and is happy with it?

Since the "optimized storage" setting became basically mandatory, I have constant problems with photos not loading. I often can't load them, attach them or edit them, and there's no way to fix it. I understand the need to store photos from like two years ago on the cloud and not on a phone with limited storage, but it'd be nice if there were an option that let me save photos from the last XX days to the phone.

xp agree i hate the keyboard on this fucking thing and my spacebar is getting really sticky

I find Android a lot easier/quicker to use

you can get a Motorola for cheap to see if it's something you like

anyone else got an iPhone with a broken charger

mine will charge but you have to jostle the charger in just the right way and somehow delicately set it down at the exact angle to keep it in place. it's really obnoxious. of course, I can't really connect to my PC at all this way.

afraid it's gonna cost $5000 to fix

have you tried compressed air? there's often some pretty exciting lint in iPhone ports in my experience.

Compressed air won't work. You have to take a tooth pick to the port and pick out all the lint that's gradually accumulated in there over the last year. And I mean really scrape at it. You'll be surprised how much fuzz comes out. That's what's interfering with the charger connection.

compressed air might work! and it's fun. toothpicks are fun too. basically you're going to have a really satisfying five minutes with your phone. don't use a metal implement though.

lol it is very fun. I used a metal thingy (a seam ripper) and it worked great

i used needle nose tweezers and my phone immediately powered down like i'd just shorted two pins that shouldn't be shorted.

I had to replace the charging port on my previous iphone; cost about $70 from a local independent shop. The headphone jack was part of the same module; both jacks were flaky on my phone.

i use bamboo toothpicks because the regular compressed sawdust toothpicks aren't strong enough. caek otm about the gnarly lint though

anyone who has migrated to android or whatever and is happy with it?

did it last year, never looked back.

i just need phone, internet, music and a company that isn't going to fuck my shit up on a regular basis

samsung have not fucked up my shit yet. their music player isn't the best - neither was the iphone app iirc - but it's functional, other options may be available but i've never bothered to investigate (99% of my listening is via spotify).

How come it’s so hard to make good devices in 2018?

Androids are a different adventure, but at least I feel more like part of the world now than locked inside someone's - forgive me, I hate this phrase too - "walled garden".

Just to be able to hook up my phone via USB and drag photos out of my DCIM folder without having to go through a whole separate shitty app like Photos or iTunes is a breath of fresh air.

I have never had any mobile phone other than iphone, and I have only ever dragged photos directly out of the DCIM folders.