... the less I want one.
I'm an Apple guy. Or, at least I was. I have owned the first seven generations of iPhone, three iPads, and at least one variant of pretty much every major Mac made since 1996. But I am just done with them because they have been slowly killing the Mac for years by starving it and feeding iOS. I see this as yet another step in that progression and I am happy to say that it won't affect me because by 2020 I will no longer be an Apple customer. It was fun while it lasted but I still desire a real computer, not a walled-garden-lifestyle-device, and the Mac formerly was a real computer until Apple decided to treat it like shit for, oh, the last 5-7 years. Ain't no way this leads to more innovative Macs. Zero percent chance.
... I dispute the claim that piracy is killing music or that there is no good music to be heard today. If anything there is so much of it out there that it's a golden age. Sure, music discovery via radio will find you nothing but crap, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of working musicians making their way using the current tools: playing shows, selling vinyl, giving away digital for cheap or free, getting licensing and sync deals, using the Internet to spread the word. Labels and radio are pretty much dead, but music is very much alive and well.
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... the less I want one. I'm an Apple guy. Or, at least I was. I have owned the first seven generations of iPhone, three iPads, and at least one variant of pretty much every major Mac made since 1996. But I am just done with them because they have been slowly killing the Mac for years by starving it and feeding iOS. I see this as yet another step in that progression and I am happy to say that it won't affect me because by 2020 I will no longer be an Apple customer. It was fun while it lasted but I still desire a real computer, not a walled-garden-lifestyle-device, and the Mac formerly was a real computer until Apple decided to treat it like shit for, oh, the last 5-7 years. Ain't no way this leads to more innovative Macs. Zero percent chance.
... I dispute the claim that piracy is killing music or that there is no good music to be heard today. If anything there is so much of it out there that it's a golden age. Sure, music discovery via radio will find you nothing but crap, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of working musicians making their way using the current tools: playing shows, selling vinyl, giving away digital for cheap or free, getting licensing and sync deals, using the Internet to spread the word. Labels and radio are pretty much dead, but music is very much alive and well.
This thread is a good example of why I love /.