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I can't even imagine how bad an apple radio station must be.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 02:16 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 15:53 |
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opus111 posted:I can't even imagine how bad an apple radio station must be. What could possibly be wrong with a corporate curated selection of music? I mean come on it's not like they already have a reputation for arbitrary blocking certain apps and other content from their system...
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 02:35 |
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:What could possibly be wrong with a corporate curated selection of music? I mean come on it's not like they already have a reputation for arbitrary blocking certain apps and other content from their system... Likely not any worse than any terrestrial top 40 radio service it seems to be modeled after.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 02:53 |
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MrBond posted:Likely not any worse than any terrestrial top 40 radio service it seems to be modeled after. So nerds will hate it and everyone else won't really care.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 02:57 |
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:So if you have Apple Music, then there's no point in having Match, right? Since it sounds like Music does the same thing? If I'm understanding this correctly, yeah, Music will do the same thing that Match does.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 03:04 |
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It's probably going to be like every other top 40 station. All fuckin Taylor Swift, Iggy Azalea, Sam Smith and Maroon 5 all the time.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 03:21 |
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MrBond posted:Likely not any worse than any terrestrial top 40 radio service it seems to be modeled after. it will be worse because apple genuinely think they're hip.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 03:40 |
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MrBond posted:Likely not any worse than any terrestrial top 40 radio service it seems to be modeled after. Exactly my point?
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 04:03 |
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Maybe it'll be like Apple's hold music. Sometimes pretty great, sometimes really repetitive, sometimes TryHard . . . and always Florence and the Machine.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 04:23 |
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opus111 posted:I can't even imagine how bad an apple radio station must be. Why do you have to imagine? iTunes Radio has been a thing for almost a year now.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 04:53 |
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opus111 posted:I can't even imagine how bad an apple radio station must be. It was good before everyone else started listening to it...
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 05:10 |
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Former T-Mobile user chiming in. Well, sort of former. I switched to Ting because it happened to be cheaper for most of my usage, but it seems it can get super expensive if I decide to stream music for hours with it. The one day I was without my primary Internet connection, I decided to stream from Pandora over my tether, while using my system as usual, and the result was about 1TB of traffic in 8 hours. Of course, it could have been all the streaming video ads I saw in the Vivaldi browser I was trying out without the benefit of an ad blocker.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 05:50 |
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fordan posted:Why do you have to imagine? iTunes Radio has been a thing for almost a year now. iTunes Radio is more of a Pandora like streaming playlist service where the song selection Is based on genres/artists you chose where you can skip songs. Honestly it was pretty comparable to Pandora, except I kept getting edited versions of songs when I wanted the explicit version. Not sure if they fixed that, I haven't used it in quite a while. Beats 1, or whatever the station is called is a live streaming broadcast that mimics an over the air/satellite broadcast. As far as I can tell Apple has hired popular DJs from LA, New York, and London to control the content and aren't controlling it directly. I'll withhold judgement until I hear it. I'm guessing this is an experiment and if it it brings in enough money we'll see addition stations (beats 2, etc) in the future. Or maybe Apple uses some of that cash to buy Sirius Satellite. Whatever the case I'll probably stick with free alternatives like Pandora because I'm a cheap rear end.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 05:51 |
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McFunkerson posted:I kept getting edited versions of songs when I wanted the explicit version I wish Pandora could take the hint, and play me music I could feel safe blasting over my speakers with my parents listening in the room at the same time. I get tired of hearing Thom Yorke singing about how "it's hosed up, hosed up", yet I like the tune, but not the lyrics, so I sit at the impasse of never hitting either the thumbs up or the thumbs down. If I hit the thumbs down, they might take the hint that I dislike it for all the other tagged properties it has, and not just because it has unnecessary profanity. (Reminds me of the time I was in a department store at the mall, some Macy's or something, and they were playing Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl, the explicit version. I could clearly hear every "This poo poo is bananas".)
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 06:01 |
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kode54 posted:I wish Pandora could take the hint, and play me music I could feel safe blasting over my speakers with my parents listening in the room at the same time. I get tired of hearing Thom Yorke singing about how "it's hosed up, hosed up", yet I like the tune, but not the lyrics, so I sit at the impasse of never hitting either the thumbs up or the thumbs down. If I hit the thumbs down, they might take the hint that I dislike it for all the other tagged properties it has, and not just because it has unnecessary profanity. i thought you had to be over 18 to post on sA?
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 06:05 |
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kode54 posted:I wish Pandora could take the hint, and play me music I could feel safe blasting over my speakers with my parents listening in the room at the same time. I get tired of hearing Thom Yorke singing about how "it's hosed up, hosed up", yet I like the tune, but not the lyrics, so I sit at the impasse of never hitting either the thumbs up or the thumbs down. If I hit the thumbs down, they might take the hint that I dislike it for all the other tagged properties it has, and not just because it has unnecessary profanity. Agreed, friendo. This is why I only listen to Christian music when I'm blasting music at my parents in the same room.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 06:17 |
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opus111 posted:i thought you had to be over 18 to post on sA? I don't know, it just feels like listening to music with pointless swearing is like watching movies with pointless violence and nudity that add absolutely nothing to the story. I can't help it if I'm developmentally stunted.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 07:23 |
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Yeah, well that was the most underwhelming keynote. I'll take Apple music for a spin, because free 3 months but the rest of it was pretty bland.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 07:55 |
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Exactly my point? You make it sound like it'll be something shockingly worse than any other radio station anyone can name. computer parts posted:So nerds will hate it and everyone else won't really care. Pretty much it.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 08:20 |
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MrBond posted:You make it sound like it'll be something shockingly worse than any other radio station anyone can name. its gonna be so much worse because it will end up playing fun-key smooth jazz played by trust fund white boys found squatting in the tenderloin.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 09:32 |
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No Sonos love for Apple Music http://www.cultofmac.com/325660/sorry-sonos-lovers-apple-music-wont-work-with-your-speaker/
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 10:49 |
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MrBond posted:You make it sound like it'll be something shockingly worse than any other radio station anyone can name. Radio stations, including the place E-Brow already works at are pretty terrible. There's a reason radio has been on the decline for years.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 14:31 |
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Rick posted:and always Florence and the Machine. Ain't nothing wrong with that.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 15:04 |
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As someone who went to school for radio and then promptly said gently caress it after actually looking for a radio job, the radio business is terrible to work in. It's a job you only do if you approach life with a "do what you love, not what keeps you financially stable" attitude because you're basically at risk of losing your job every single day. Nobody is safe, even "big-name" hosts, since a station could flip formats without notice and kick you to the curb since you don't fit their sound any more. Exception to that is sales, but gently caress doing media sales.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 15:58 |
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SIR FAT JONY IVES posted:Radio stations, including the place E-Brow already works at are pretty terrible. There's a reason radio has been on the decline for years. Oh don't get me wrong, I hate terrestrial radio and even satellite for aping the traditional radio format, and this seems to be right down that alley. It sounded like Apple's version of sirius's hits 1 and I imagine whatever BBC equivalent but I don't think it will be any worse about playing radio edits of any given song or not playing songs. If it ever came up they'll just play "Forget You" like every other radio station did back in the day. Three Olives posted:edit 2: I feel like I am being pedantic, if ApplePay gets retailers to replace their lovely terminals with ones that support Chip & PIN and NFC, I'm all for it as a person that has gone half a dozen credit cards in the past two years because of data breaches, it just seems weird for Apple to brag about how many (few) retailers have non-complete poo poo insecure terminals that also happen to support the standard that Apple is using for NFC payments. Yeah I agree, from the consumer end NFC payments will basically work and feel the same no matter if the antenna is in the card or in an iPhone or Android, as long as the retailer has the hardware. This is a case of a rising tide lifts all boats too, so just watch out for the silly CurrentC people.
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 18:04 |
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If Apple Pay could somehow incorporate my loyalty cards to auto scan/check in when I pay with Apple Pay, that would be amazing. Tried doing an purchase at Walgreens today and want to still go through 3 different screens for my reward balance and poo poo like that
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# ? Jun 9, 2015 19:35 |
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Astro7x posted:If Apple Pay could somehow incorporate my loyalty cards to auto scan/check in when I pay with Apple Pay, that would be amazing. That's an explicit new feature of iOS 9. It was even demoed onstage. MrBond posted:
The adoption of new hardware is probably more related to the Credit Card companies going "either support/offer chipped cards or all the liability goes onto you". Businesses have ~5 months or so to comply.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 00:29 |
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MrBond posted:CurrentC It's especially silly, if you consider that CurrentC doesn't use NFC, just so it can work with phones that either have no NFC support, or lock it down to vendor only apps.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 00:33 |
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binarysmurf posted:Yeah, well that was the most underwhelming keynote. As a developer, I thought it was great. App thinning, swift 2, free provisioning, UI debugging, native watch apps, universal links, etc.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 00:35 |
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Probably relevant here, Phil Schiller is being interviewed live right now on Gruber's podcast: http://daringfireball.net/live/
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 03:39 |
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milkaxor posted:As a developer, I thought it was great. App thinning, swift 2, free provisioning, UI debugging, native watch apps, universal links, etc. Yeah.. I think I was being a little over critical. I'm also a dev, and watching the "Platform State of the Union" restored my enthusiasm.
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# ? Jun 10, 2015 05:32 |
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So basically the new OS X is them nicking the best bits of Windows and welding it onto Yosemite? I also didn't get them randomly showing off mission control when it didn't seem to be changed at all, but perhaps I missed something, I dunno.kode54 posted:I wish Pandora could take the hint, and play me music I could feel safe blasting over my speakers with my parents listening in the room at the same time. I get tired of hearing Thom Yorke singing about how "it's hosed up, hosed up", yet I like the tune, but not the lyrics, so I sit at the impasse of never hitting either the thumbs up or the thumbs down. If I hit the thumbs down, they might take the hint that I dislike it for all the other tagged properties it has, and not just because it has unnecessary profanity. you sound like my granny
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# ? Jun 11, 2015 19:57 |
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IceAgeComing posted:So basically the new OS X is them nicking the best bits of Windows and welding it onto Yosemite? Honestly this is the best thing though. Window snapping is pretty much the best thing.
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# ? Jun 12, 2015 10:57 |
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kode54 posted:I don't know, it just feels like listening to music with pointless swearing is like watching movies with pointless violence and nudity that add absolutely nothing to the story. I can't help it if I'm developmentally stunted. This poo poo's bananas. El Capitan and iOS9 both seem pretty cool if the performance stuff is legit, especially on older devices.
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# ? Jun 12, 2015 11:18 |
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IceAgeComing posted:So basically the new OS X is them nicking the best bits of Windows and welding it onto Yosemite? I also didn't get them randomly showing off mission control when it didn't seem to be changed at all, but perhaps I missed something, I dunno. Window snapping is one of the things I missed most about Windows. I use BTT to enable it in OSX and I feel like it will still be better than Apple's native method but I'm glad they're including it at all. Mission Control now supports dragging an open app into the top to create a full screen desktop for it. You can drag apps to desktops in MC to create split-screen desktops and such.
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# ? Jun 12, 2015 14:51 |
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It goes both ways, MS is adding virtual desktops to Win10, too, but that is more of an old Unix feature, than an Apple feature, but whatever.
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# ? Jun 12, 2015 15:11 |
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IceAgeComing posted:So basically the new OS X is them nicking the best bits of Windows and welding it onto Yosemite? I also didn't get them randomly showing off mission control when it didn't seem to be changed at all, but perhaps I missed something, I dunno. Apple and Microsoft signed an agreement back in 1997 to cross-license all of their patents. They're not allowed to totally copy whole applications or swaths of code verbatim, but they can filch isolated little features here and there, from each other, without fear of new lawsuits . The agreement was part of the settlement from losing a case where Microsoft and Intel were found to have lifted whole sections of code verbatim from Apple applications. Apple isn't totally without some cattiness, such as when they posted banners at a past WWDC touting OS X Tiger that said "Redmond, start your photocopiers."
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# ? Jun 13, 2015 05:57 |