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http://www.apple.com/welcome-beats/ quote:Today we are excited to officially welcome Beats Music and Beats Electronics to the Apple family. Music has always held a special place in our hearts, and we’re thrilled to join forces with a group of people who love it as much as we do. Beats cofounders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre have created beautiful products that have helped millions of people deepen their connection to music. We’re delighted to be working with the team to elevate that experience even further. lol except for beatz hr accounting and r&d, lol!
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 15:50 |
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it's pronounced "gordon"
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 15:51 |
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beautifully, unapologetically plastic
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 15:51 |
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coutoure plastic for generation iTurds. lol
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 15:52 |
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graph posted:
is beatz r&d not just research into marketing how best to convince people to buy expensive, garish plastic headphones?
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:08 |
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lol
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:34 |
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:37 |
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loooooooooooooool
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:48 |
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:48 |
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also this lovely company couldn't have been bought by a better company (because they already knew beatz were terrible)
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:49 |
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timb drop the beats plz
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:52 |
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lol the chum of mine who got in on this deal posted this morning 'tell me your thoughts on modular synthesizing' hahahahahhah man it was only a couple years ago we were havin a beer and he was sketching his poo poo out on a napkin
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 16:52 |
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at first i was going to say you're overdoing it, but lol
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 17:55 |
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everybody is on board with the fact that the beats acquisition is a sign of apple's decline, right? just wanted to be sure nobody was unironically enthusiastic about this
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 17:57 |
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has cremnob taken a stand on this acquisition?
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 18:10 |
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lmao
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:24 |
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Stymie posted:everybody is on board with the fact that the beats acquisition is a sign of apple's decline, right? its bad and hurts their brand image
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:25 |
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in before someone says "oh yeah their brand image of computers for white people" or whatever no, their brand image of being innovative. there is nothing innovative about beats beyond them being peddled by dr. dre
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:27 |
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Beeftweeter posted:in before someone says "oh yeah their brand image of computers for white people" or whatever uh the creator made hundreds of millions of dollars by patenting an EQ curve. that sounds pretty loving innovative to me.
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:28 |
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Jonny 290 posted:uh the creator made hundreds of millions of dollars by patenting an EQ curve. that sounds pretty loving innovative to me. yeah i guess having a patent that should be invalidated fits in with apple pretty well actually. gg jimmy bovine
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:31 |
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Beeftweeter posted:yeah i guess having a patent that should be invalidated fits in with apple pretty well actually. gg jimmy bovine why should that patent be invalidated? Psychoacoustic poo poo has always been patentable look at mp3
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:32 |
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the mp3 patent should be invalidated because everyone knows you should more heavily compress the things humans can't hear well
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 19:32 |
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:why should that patent be invalidated? Psychoacoustic poo poo has always been patentable look at mp3 a fairly easy to do manipulation of an audio signal? if i use the right settings on my EQ i'm guilty of patent infringement
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 21:12 |
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I just honestly can't get over them being called beautiful products words mean nothing to apple at all. they'll say anything at all deepen their connection to music? shoulda given everyone some mushrooms to actually achieve that mushrooms > beats
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 21:12 |
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please no racism is yospos
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 21:29 |
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Stymie posted:everybody is on board with the fact that the beats acquisition is a sign of apple's decline, right? kill the headphones and shove beats music into itunes immediately, imo
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 21:40 |
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graph posted:release the headphones in apple-style as well as keeping the other models as-is, riding it out until it's not the popular thing any more, then kill the headphones except for what was cannibalized into iphone/ipod's bundled earbuds.. also shove beats music into itunes immediately, imo
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 21:45 |
graph posted:kill the headphones and shove beats music into itunes immediately, imo lol that would own to just buy them and shut them down p much totally i need to be CEO of apple
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:02 |
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is there an all-white model of the beats headphones
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:03 |
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lol if you wouldnt just turn being apple CEO into a glorious rock-star lifestyle whereby you just enact all your petty tastes as multi billion dollar acquistions
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:13 |
echinopsis posted:lol if you wouldnt just turn being apple CEO into a glorious rock-star lifestyle whereby you just enact all your petty tastes as multi billion dollar acquistions yeah this
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:15 |
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z0rlandi viSSer posted:lol that would own yep
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:23 |
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reminder that this deal was about killing spotify and pandora with streaming rights not about plasticky bad headphones
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:24 |
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echinopsis posted:lol if you wouldnt just turn being apple CEO into a glorious rock-star lifestyle whereby you just enact all your petty tastes as multi billion dollar acquistions apple buys dominos pizza ap reports
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:27 |
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bapple
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:28 |
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lmao
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 22:33 |
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i guess they need to scrub all references to HP and HTC off the beats website
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# ? Aug 1, 2014 23:41 |
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graph posted:kill the headphones and shove beats music into itunes immediately, imo yep
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# ? Aug 2, 2014 00:27 |
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theadder posted:yep holy poo poo i just realized i quoted stymie gently caress
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# ? Aug 2, 2014 00:33 |
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graph posted:holy poo poo i just realized i quoted stymie i noticed but i didnt like to mention it tbqh
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# ? Aug 2, 2014 00:39 |