Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Very true, but I'm having an extremely hard time seeing how incompetence can adequately explain detecting and disabling non-apple displays.
Who said it DISABLED them? Perhaps, the phone simply couldn't COMMUNICATE with the slightly-incompatible third party Display/Digitizer. Ever think of that?
They even get the FBI involved, in preventing LEGIT parts being imported, and being classified as COUNTERFEIT even if they are 100% the same.
Come on Woz, as an electronics dude who cut his teeth on hacking he has to be ashamed of Cook today.
If they haven't been manufactured and QC'ed by Apple, they are, de facto, NOT LEGIT, and NOT "100% the same".
How would YOU like it if you bought a "Genuine Apple" Digitizer/Display module for a friend's iPhone he/she asked you to fix, and it turned out to be a Greymarket FAKE, with crappy color gamut, dead spots/sensitivity issues in the digitizer, etc? And then the "vendor" you bought it from on Amazon refused to take it back/refund the purchase price, because "It doesn't have any "SERIOUS DEFECTS"/ outright Failures."
The company trying to attack right to repair legislation decided at just about the time that legislation is coming into focus decided to make an example out of the people on one of its more modern but less popular platforms by bricking their phones "because you used non genuine parts".
Poor little FakeTImCook got his ass handed to him, so he's going to run off and cry in Timmy Cook's apron!!! Suck it up, buttercup - you can't defend your position and your running away just confirms you're absolutely NOTHING but an Apple shill, with ZERO contribution to the society of/.
That's your opinion, HornWumpus...
Not only are my points backd up with facts and independent research; but My almost constant Mod Point awards say different about my contributions to/.
We're using one button mice? (because we're too stupid to for a second button?)
Jobs stole the GUI (for the Lisa) from the same place Gates did (Xerox). Face facts.
Modern GUIs have evolved and come from no single place. MacOS prior to X was architecturally very much inferior to all versions of NT, even 3.51 just blew it away. It was in a league with Amiga's OS.
Are we STILL flogging the "One Button Mouse" and "Apple ripped-off Xerox" memes? REALLY?
For the (HOPEFULLY!) Last Time EVAR:
1. One button mice are provably easier for NOVICES to understand, especially back in 1980, when the Lisa was under Development, and almost NO ONE had ever seen a computer Mouse of ANY kind! Internally at Apple at that time, Jef Raskin wanted a FIVE button mouse; but usability studies conducted with NORMAL PEOPLE (not "Computer Priests") consistently showed that they had trouble with the concept of multi-button mice. So ONE it was... However, MacOS has actually had intrinsic support (and responds to) multi-button mice since at least (Classic) MacOS 8.0 was released in 1997. Sorry, I can't find a reference right now, but I know it was 8.0 or 8.1. And before that, Macs supported (and still do) Ctrl-Click.
2. Apple paid Xerox 150 Million dollars in Stock Options for the Xerox Stuff. Gates, OTOH, simply COPIED the MacOS. He didn't bother going to Xerox and doing it "right". But whaddya expect from a guy whole basically STOLE the Code that became MS-DOS from Tim Patterson (NOT Gary Kildall) for a measly $50k. However, Tim Patterson had actually simply PLAGIARIZED Gary Kildall's CP/M, anyway...
3. And I agree that NT, which itself was half stolen from DEC's VMS, was superior in many ways to classic Mac OS; but it was also INferior in many ways, too.
He's only with us in spirit now, but Steve Jobs invented this ecosystem out of thin air. Without him, we'd still be using flip-phones designed at the whims of the carriers. It's amazing to look at a modern phone and compare it to the original iPhone. In form and function, not much difference. That is the simplest way to see how "right" Jobs got it. Rest in peace, sir.
You'd be lucky to have "windows" at all if Jobs hadn't have invented the Mac. The Mac codified the modern GUI standards and functionality we take for granted nowadays.
Why don't you just fucking leave. Your smug attitude makes you look and sound like a prick. You are not better than any of us just because you shill for Apple and tell people what to do.
Again, you are a smug, condescending prick. Fuck off you faggot.
This has NOTHING to do with APPLE: It's about government overreach, and UNNECESSARY interference in free-market business decisions that in no real way, materially limit the bottom-line choices of the general public, you fucking moron.
By file formats I mean when you try to "Save as" or "Export" in Preview into another graphic file format. The old formats are still there but they are hidden from the pull-down menu used for the format choice, you have to hold "option" to see them but no indication that holding that key will give you more option.
As for APFS, I've read quite a few complains on macrumors.com
Well, as a Mac User since 1984, and a Lisa User before that, I don't particularly agree with some of the hand-holding and Filesystem- hiding that happened a while back (Mountain Lion?). It makes me always have to remember to hold down "Option" when doing a Save... BUT, OTOH, the idea was based on sound marketing: People who were used to using iOS, which basically makes all the Filesystem decisions for you, and who were switching to a Mac for the first time, would fell "lost" in a big, open Filesystem. So, it was decided that regular File Saves and Opens would always be to an Application's Files Directory. In fact, there was even an API that allowed Applications to basically obviate "manual" Saves and Opens (particularly Saves), by doing them automagically. Keep in mind that this same set of changes also brought an API and Filesystem commands that provided file Versioning, which is u doubted lay a Good Thing.
But the use of the Option key is totally consistent in the Mac OS Ehos, all the way back to 1984, in fact. The "Option" key (more correctly described as a "More Options" key), has ALWAYS been used, admittedly in a somewhat inconsistent way, to access "Advanced Options" for whatever the User is doing. So, in that fashion, showing additional File Formats and File Locations is actually TOTALLY consistent with the Mac UI and software design philosophies, going ALL the way back.
And as for MacRumors, it is just as rife with Mac Hating Trolls, who freely make up "personal experiences" out of whole cloth, having never touched a Mac in their entire lives, as is Slashdot. Don't use that forum as a benchmark, please!
When your leader has to admit (and they hate doing that) they've fucked up too much in software QA that they have to pump the brakes to not fuck up so much, you should keep your mouth shut.
Apple would have to hire an all-H1b dev. Staff to fuck up as consistently as MS' Windows teams have.
You missed my reply to myself, in which I stated I am perfectly willing to donate where I feel it's suited, just not subscribe to a service. But my real question was whether something like Ampache's user base is dropping because of Spotify.
Actually, I DID see that Post, AFTER I clicked SUBMIT, of course!!!
I duly apologize. Mea Culpa!!! Arguing with a bunch of Hater ACs (or just reading their tripe) gets me in a hair-trigger mood, SORRY!!!
As to your REAL question: I'm sorry; but I don't know the answer to that. BUT, I STILL Contend that there is a next-to-zero chance that this has the potential to exert any "Undue Influence" on the Shazam-Using Public, anyway. If they don't know by now who Apple is, and whether they like their stuff, I HONESTLY don't think that THIS is going to make up their (lack of) mind FOR them!!!
Oh I'm not talking about bugs but most the GUI and other things. The counter-intuitive flat UI comes to mind, removing features from software "just because". Hiding feathers without any hint on how to access them (ex: older but still supported graphic file formats when saving with Preview hidden from the pull-down menu). But the biggest problem right now is APFS, which is quite critical.
I don't like the flatifying of the UI, either; but it's an industry-wide Design Trend, it seems; so whaddya gonna do? Blame MiserableSoft, and their Vomitous "Interface Formerly Known as Metro" Playskool-Design...
Do those File-Formats still work if you force the File Extension (I'm at work with no Mac to check)? And are they still Hidden if you hold down "Option' while Saving (doing a "Save As...")?
What's wrong with APFS? I only heard about one bug; and I thought it got fixed. In fact, I thought APFS was a SPECTACULARLY-SMOOTH Rollout for such a hyper-critical component of the OS...
I wonder how this is affecting demand for open-source streaming software like Ampache - or the support other Internet radio stations e.g. SomaFM or Radio Paradise. Spotify seems really popular, from what I hear. Not being willing to pay to stream music, I'd like to hope that the other music sources remain very available.
I'll bet you're not willing to pay for software, or movies, or anything else you can leech or steal, right? Afterall, it's all just "Imaginary Property"...
Maybe you dont understand the context. We are talking about mergers. You cant undo the mergers, you can only prevent them if they are potentially harmful.
I understand the concept completely.
But since Apple STiLL wouldn't have anywhere CLOSE to a "Monopoly" in this regard, why can't people just be trusted to "Vote with their feet", if they don't like using Shazam under Apple's control.
This isn't like "Well, the biggest two Wireless Carriers are going to Merge, so there will be ONE megacorp, and a couple of piddly-little "competitors" that won't stand a chance. This is simply one big Megacorp buying up a Music IDENTIFICATION Service, FFS!
Actually he should not have waited this long. Things have gotten pretty bad recently.
Just the Internet Magnifying-Lens. No one pays (much) attention when there's a bug in Android or Linux; and nobody even NOTICES when there's a bug in Windows; but every single thing that Apple slips-up on is FRONT PAGE NEWS.
Every. Single. Thing.
That's not to say that Apple is in any way Perfect. FAR from it. But they address their issues in a timely manner (again, MOST of the time. Tell me bugs never languish in Linux and Android and Windows and... (*cough* Heartbleed *cough* *cough* ROBOT *cough* *cough* Meltdown and Spectre *cough, cough, cough*...). But, considering they have continuous, active Development on not one, not two, not three, but FOUR, count 'em FOUR Separate OSes (yes, most of them are sort of "Forks" of one another), yeah, it is statistically a CERTAINTY that they have at least the POTENTIAL for FOUR TIMES as many Bugs as say, Linux or Windows.
But yet they DON'T. Especially when compared with Windows.
They may be well-meaning; but they seem to be even more Regulation-Happy than the U.S. Congress, and that's saying something!
So now, nobody can have an online service that might POSSIBLY inadvertently gather data that might POSSIBLY be also gathered by a "Competitor"?
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
It is an investigation into possible negative outcomes of the merger.. So you are opposed to anyone ever doing anything to preemptively prevent market problems before they occur?
Of course not. And to answer both you AND the snarky AC, no, it isn't ONLY when it's Apple; I just don't, in all honesty, see this acquisition as doing anything to give Apple an "Unfair Advantage" over other Streaming Services.
Please explain with some RATIONAL argument, how I might not be seeing something here.
And "Because... Apple" is NOT a Rational Argument.;-)
What you are not seeing is what haven't been investigated yet.
You mean, what hasn't HAPPENED yet. You can't "Investigate" that which is, itself, nothing but pure SPECULATION.
That's as bad (or actually worse; because the EU's SPECULATION has the Force and Effect of LAW) as the Slashtards who IMMEDIATELY Jump to the MOST NEFARIOUS possible motives for EVERY FUCKING THING that Apple says or does; without so much as a SCINTILLA of EVIDENCE to back-up their Tinfoil-Hat FANTASIES.
EXACTLY the same.
Now, please show me how that DOESN'T happen, and that I'M the one being Paranoid.
They may be well-meaning; but they seem to be even more Regulation-Happy than the U.S. Congress, and that's saying something!
So now, nobody can have an online service that might POSSIBLY inadvertently gather data that might POSSIBLY be also gathered by a "Competitor"?
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
It is an investigation into possible negative outcomes of the merger.. So you are opposed to anyone ever doing anything to preemptively prevent market problems before they occur?
Of course not. And to answer both you AND the snarky AC, no, it isn't ONLY when it's Apple; I just don't, in all honesty, see this acquisition as doing anything to give Apple an "Unfair Advantage" over other Streaming Services.
Please explain with some RATIONAL argument, how I might not be seeing something here.
And "Because... Apple" is NOT a Rational Argument.;-)
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
You don't tell it what you subscribe to, it's a standalone app. But once it identifies a song it gives you links to music services to obtain the track. The fear here is that Apple will remove links to rival services and make Apple Music the only service you can easily follow through on.
But that's not what TFS said the EU was concerned about. And even if Apple did that, it certainly isn't a "monopoly"-type situation.
They may be well-meaning; but they seem to be even more Regulation-Happy than the U.S. Congress, and that's saying something!
So now, nobody can have an online service that might POSSIBLY inadvertently gather data that might POSSIBLY be also gathered by a "Competitor"?
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
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People rushing out to buy a new iShit in desperation.
What a considered, erudite response, Hater COWARD...
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Very true, but I'm having an extremely hard time seeing how incompetence can adequately explain detecting and disabling non-apple displays.
Who said it DISABLED them? Perhaps, the phone simply couldn't COMMUNICATE with the slightly-incompatible third party Display/Digitizer. Ever think of that?
Apple SUES iPhone screen repair shop and LOSES!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They even get the FBI involved, in preventing LEGIT parts being imported, and being classified as COUNTERFEIT even if they are 100% the same.
Come on Woz, as an electronics dude who cut his teeth on hacking he has to be ashamed of Cook today.
If they haven't been manufactured and QC'ed by Apple, they are, de facto, NOT LEGIT, and NOT "100% the same".
How would YOU like it if you bought a "Genuine Apple" Digitizer/Display module for a friend's iPhone he/she asked you to fix, and it turned out to be a Greymarket FAKE, with crappy color gamut, dead spots/sensitivity issues in the digitizer, etc? And then the "vendor" you bought it from on Amazon refused to take it back/refund the purchase price, because "It doesn't have any "SERIOUS DEFECTS"/ outright Failures."
I know. You wouldn't care; because... Apple.
The company trying to attack right to repair legislation decided at just about the time that legislation is coming into focus decided to make an example out of the people on one of its more modern but less popular platforms by bricking their phones "because you used non genuine parts".
Yeah, reaching.
Give it a damn BREAK, COWARD.
Poor little FakeTImCook got his ass handed to him, so he's going to run off and cry in Timmy Cook's apron!!! Suck it up, buttercup - you can't defend your position and your running away just confirms you're absolutely NOTHING but an Apple shill, with ZERO contribution to the society of /.
That's your opinion, HornWumpus...
Not only are my points backd up with facts and independent research; but My almost constant Mod Point awards say different about my contributions to /.
1. MacIdiots are too stupid for more than one button. Your not disagreeing with me. Clearly Mac OS initially got that wrong.
2. Nonsense. Gates got it from Xerox, same a Jobs.
3. Name one way NT was inferior? 3.51 was better in all respects, even the Windows 3 style UI.
Intelligent Intercourse with you is impossible. This conversation is terminated.
The AC was right. Your type doesn't belong on Slashdot.
What?
We're using one button mice? (because we're too stupid to for a second button?)
Jobs stole the GUI (for the Lisa) from the same place Gates did (Xerox). Face facts.
Modern GUIs have evolved and come from no single place. MacOS prior to X was architecturally very much inferior to all versions of NT, even 3.51 just blew it away. It was in a league with Amiga's OS.
Are we STILL flogging the "One Button Mouse" and "Apple ripped-off Xerox" memes? REALLY?
For the (HOPEFULLY!) Last Time EVAR:
1. One button mice are provably easier for NOVICES to understand, especially back in 1980, when the Lisa was under Development, and almost NO ONE had ever seen a computer Mouse of ANY kind! Internally at Apple at that time, Jef Raskin wanted a FIVE button mouse; but usability studies conducted with NORMAL PEOPLE (not "Computer Priests") consistently showed that they had trouble with the concept of multi-button mice. So ONE it was... However, MacOS has actually had intrinsic support (and responds to) multi-button mice since at least (Classic) MacOS 8.0 was released in 1997. Sorry, I can't find a reference right now, but I know it was 8.0 or 8.1. And before that, Macs supported (and still do) Ctrl-Click.
2. Apple paid Xerox 150 Million dollars in Stock Options for the Xerox Stuff. Gates, OTOH, simply COPIED the MacOS. He didn't bother going to Xerox and doing it "right". But whaddya expect from a guy whole basically STOLE the Code that became MS-DOS from Tim Patterson (NOT Gary Kildall) for a measly $50k. However, Tim Patterson had actually simply PLAGIARIZED Gary Kildall's CP/M, anyway...
https://www.quora.com/Whats-th...
3. And I agree that NT, which itself was half stolen from DEC's VMS, was superior in many ways to classic Mac OS; but it was also INferior in many ways, too.
He's only with us in spirit now, but Steve Jobs invented this ecosystem out of thin air. Without him, we'd still be using flip-phones designed at the whims of the carriers. It's amazing to look at a modern phone and compare it to the original iPhone. In form and function, not much difference. That is the simplest way to see how "right" Jobs got it. Rest in peace, sir.
Great post!
You'd be lucky to have "windows" at all if Jobs hadn't have invented the Mac. The Mac codified the modern GUI standards and functionality we take for granted nowadays.
Exactly!
We got ourselves a Dudley do-right boys.
Why don't you just fucking leave. Your smug attitude makes you look and sound like a prick. You are not better than any of us just because you shill for Apple and tell people what to do.
Again, you are a smug, condescending prick. Fuck off you faggot.
This has NOTHING to do with APPLE: It's about government overreach, and UNNECESSARY interference in free-market business decisions that in no real way, materially limit the bottom-line choices of the general public, you fucking moron.
Think about it, COWARD.
By file formats I mean when you try to "Save as" or "Export" in Preview into another graphic file format. The old formats are still there but they are hidden from the pull-down menu used for the format choice, you have to hold "option" to see them but no indication that holding that key will give you more option.
As for APFS, I've read quite a few complains on macrumors.com
Well, as a Mac User since 1984, and a Lisa User before that, I don't particularly agree with some of the hand-holding and Filesystem- hiding that happened a while back (Mountain Lion?). It makes me always have to remember to hold down "Option" when doing a Save... BUT, OTOH, the idea was based on sound marketing: People who were used to using iOS, which basically makes all the Filesystem decisions for you, and who were switching to a Mac for the first time, would fell "lost" in a big, open Filesystem. So, it was decided that regular File Saves and Opens would always be to an Application's Files Directory. In fact, there was even an API that allowed Applications to basically obviate "manual" Saves and Opens (particularly Saves), by doing them automagically. Keep in mind that this same set of changes also brought an API and Filesystem commands that provided file Versioning, which is u doubted lay a Good Thing.
But the use of the Option key is totally consistent in the Mac OS Ehos, all the way back to 1984, in fact. The "Option" key (more correctly described as a "More Options" key), has ALWAYS been used, admittedly in a somewhat inconsistent way, to access "Advanced Options" for whatever the User is doing. So, in that fashion, showing additional File Formats and File Locations is actually TOTALLY consistent with the Mac UI and software design philosophies, going ALL the way back.
And as for MacRumors, it is just as rife with Mac Hating Trolls, who freely make up "personal experiences" out of whole cloth, having never touched a Mac in their entire lives, as is Slashdot. Don't use that forum as a benchmark, please!
Glass house, man. Glass house.
When your leader has to admit (and they hate doing that) they've fucked up too much in software QA that they have to pump the brakes to not fuck up so much, you should keep your mouth shut.
Apple would have to hire an all-H1b dev. Staff to fuck up as consistently as MS' Windows teams have.
You missed my reply to myself, in which I stated I am perfectly willing to donate where I feel it's suited, just not subscribe to a service. But my real question was whether something like Ampache's user base is dropping because of Spotify.
Actually, I DID see that Post, AFTER I clicked SUBMIT, of course!!!
I duly apologize. Mea Culpa!!! Arguing with a bunch of Hater ACs (or just reading their tripe) gets me in a hair-trigger mood, SORRY!!!
As to your REAL question: I'm sorry; but I don't know the answer to that. BUT, I STILL Contend that there is a next-to-zero chance that this has the potential to exert any "Undue Influence" on the Shazam-Using Public, anyway. If they don't know by now who Apple is, and whether they like their stuff, I HONESTLY don't think that THIS is going to make up their (lack of) mind FOR them!!!
Oh I'm not talking about bugs but most the GUI and other things. The counter-intuitive flat UI comes to mind, removing features from software "just because". Hiding feathers without any hint on how to access them (ex: older but still supported graphic file formats when saving with Preview hidden from the pull-down menu). But the biggest problem right now is APFS, which is quite critical.
I don't like the flatifying of the UI, either; but it's an industry-wide Design Trend, it seems; so whaddya gonna do? Blame MiserableSoft, and their Vomitous "Interface Formerly Known as Metro" Playskool-Design...
Do those File-Formats still work if you force the File Extension (I'm at work with no Mac to check)? And are they still Hidden if you hold down "Option' while Saving (doing a "Save As...")?
What's wrong with APFS? I only heard about one bug; and I thought it got fixed. In fact, I thought APFS was a SPECTACULARLY-SMOOTH Rollout for such a hyper-critical component of the OS...
The fees demanded by the copyright holders are unreasonably high.
That's pretty much the size of things.
So don't watch or listen to it.
That's pretty much the size of things.
I wonder how this is affecting demand for open-source streaming software like Ampache - or the support other Internet radio stations e.g. SomaFM or Radio Paradise. Spotify seems really popular, from what I hear. Not being willing to pay to stream music, I'd like to hope that the other music sources remain very available.
I'll bet you're not willing to pay for software, or movies, or anything else you can leech or steal, right? Afterall, it's all just "Imaginary Property"...
Maybe you dont understand the context. We are talking about mergers. You cant undo the mergers, you can only prevent them if they are potentially harmful.
I understand the concept completely.
But since Apple STiLL wouldn't have anywhere CLOSE to a "Monopoly" in this regard, why can't people just be trusted to "Vote with their feet", if they don't like using Shazam under Apple's control.
This isn't like "Well, the biggest two Wireless Carriers are going to Merge, so there will be ONE megacorp, and a couple of piddly-little "competitors" that won't stand a chance. This is simply one big Megacorp buying up a Music IDENTIFICATION Service, FFS!
Actually he should not have waited this long. Things have gotten pretty bad recently.
Just the Internet Magnifying-Lens. No one pays (much) attention when there's a bug in Android or Linux; and nobody even NOTICES when there's a bug in Windows; but every single thing that Apple slips-up on is FRONT PAGE NEWS.
Every. Single. Thing.
That's not to say that Apple is in any way Perfect. FAR from it. But they address their issues in a timely manner (again, MOST of the time. Tell me bugs never languish in Linux and Android and Windows and... (*cough* Heartbleed *cough* *cough* ROBOT *cough* *cough* Meltdown and Spectre *cough, cough, cough*...). But, considering they have continuous, active Development on not one, not two, not three, but FOUR, count 'em FOUR Separate OSes (yes, most of them are sort of "Forks" of one another), yeah, it is statistically a CERTAINTY that they have at least the POTENTIAL for FOUR TIMES as many Bugs as say, Linux or Windows.
But yet they DON'T. Especially when compared with Windows.
Jus' Sayin'...
They may be well-meaning; but they seem to be even more Regulation-Happy than the U.S. Congress, and that's saying something!
So now, nobody can have an online service that might POSSIBLY inadvertently gather data that might POSSIBLY be also gathered by a "Competitor"?
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
It is an investigation into possible negative outcomes of the merger.. So you are opposed to anyone ever doing anything to preemptively prevent market problems before they occur?
Of course not. And to answer both you AND the snarky AC, no, it isn't ONLY when it's Apple; I just don't, in all honesty, see this acquisition as doing anything to give Apple an "Unfair Advantage" over other Streaming Services.
Please explain with some RATIONAL argument, how I might not be seeing something here.
And "Because... Apple" is NOT a Rational Argument. ;-)
What you are not seeing is what haven't been investigated yet.
You mean, what hasn't HAPPENED yet. You can't "Investigate" that which is, itself, nothing but pure SPECULATION.
That's as bad (or actually worse; because the EU's SPECULATION has the Force and Effect of LAW) as the Slashtards who IMMEDIATELY Jump to the MOST NEFARIOUS possible motives for EVERY FUCKING THING that Apple says or does; without so much as a SCINTILLA of EVIDENCE to back-up their Tinfoil-Hat FANTASIES.
EXACTLY the same.
Now, please show me how that DOESN'T happen, and that I'M the one being Paranoid.
I'll wait...
Please, give us a break. Who the fuck inadvertently gathers data of any kind these days??
No. No "Breaks" to someone to COWARDLY to expose their Karma.
IMHO, 99.99999% of ALL AC Posts are there SOLELY to bash someone from a Karmically-Protected shelter. Nothing more; nothing less.
So, log in and fight like a REAL person; or STFU and GTFO, COWARD!!!
Eventually I predict Microsoft will just front end Ubuntu because they've lost the ability to develop OS software.
Question: How can they lose what they never had?
I got tired and just moved to Mac.
Good for you!
You'll soon wonder why you waited so long...
They may be well-meaning; but they seem to be even more Regulation-Happy than the U.S. Congress, and that's saying something!
So now, nobody can have an online service that might POSSIBLY inadvertently gather data that might POSSIBLY be also gathered by a "Competitor"?
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
It is an investigation into possible negative outcomes of the merger.. So you are opposed to anyone ever doing anything to preemptively prevent market problems before they occur?
Of course not. And to answer both you AND the snarky AC, no, it isn't ONLY when it's Apple; I just don't, in all honesty, see this acquisition as doing anything to give Apple an "Unfair Advantage" over other Streaming Services.
Please explain with some RATIONAL argument, how I might not be seeing something here.
And "Because... Apple" is NOT a Rational Argument. ;-)
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.
You don't tell it what you subscribe to, it's a standalone app. But once it identifies a song it gives you links to music services to obtain the track. The fear here is that Apple will remove links to rival services and make Apple Music the only service you can easily follow through on.
But that's not what TFS said the EU was concerned about. And even if Apple did that, it certainly isn't a "monopoly"-type situation.
They may be well-meaning; but they seem to be even more Regulation-Happy than the U.S. Congress, and that's saying something!
So now, nobody can have an online service that might POSSIBLY inadvertently gather data that might POSSIBLY be also gathered by a "Competitor"?
I don't know how Shazam works; but do you have to tell it what Streaming Music Service you might (or might not) belong to to use it? If not, then this is a horseshit suggestion.