Here's an idea, next time you think you've come up with a (beyond obvious) solution that NASA hasn't thought of, figure out what YOU are missing instead.
True enough.
I realized my error about 3 seconds after I posed it... Duh!
Dont bother explaining using real tech information. This apple cheerleader will not understand or not accept any answer that is not pro-apple.
As a former sound engineer and a audio enthusiast (NOT an audiophile!), I very well understand the cumulative errors from chains of transcoding using lossy formats like AAC.
Perhaps that's why Apple added FLAC Support (as well as the ALAC already supported) in iOS 11.
And besides, since Apple controls the drivers for the entire audio chain and BT chain, I would be very surprised if they re-encode AAC source material, so long as it is at 256 kbps or below. Apple isn't stupid when it comes to audio.
Licensed macOS computers would imply that Apple had produced an open documented hardware platform. They haven't, and they can't except at huge expense. And they won't because that isn't their chosen market segment.
Apple thrives on being a fractional player in the PC and the Cellphone market. Their whole market approach is to skim off some of the people who will pay extra.
Hey, stupid!
What's "Open" or "Documented" about Windows?
It seems to exist on MANY different hardware platforms.
That's the beauty in Android, you can choose from an array of different phones with different features and keep Android as the OS. If you're crying it's not fair, then that's Apple's fault for not allowing iOS on other devices.
The Android-lovers are REALLY lucky Apple DOESN'T allow iOS on other hardware.
by only allowing AAC files in the app they ensure the best performance and battery life.
You mean, best performance for people that don't care for audio quality... which is the same public that uses regular bluetooth. But hey, a little bit more battery time! Super worth it!
I would give $1000 to anyone who could RELIABLY distinguish 256k bps AAC from ANY lossless audio encoding format.
Reinventing the wheel might be great, unless of course all you need is a wheel.
3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.
If they really want to do something new with sound they should make their stupid music app play FLAC. Isnt that the whole point of getting sound over W1 headphones? (AKA"special blutetooth")
Seriously, for such an innovator this is rubbish.
Even though W1-equipped Apple earbuds stream over 256k AAC (which I defy any human to distinguish from lossless), it appears your ridiculous, storage-wasting wish has been granted:
With my Samsung I carry a usb cable and power adapter, and a pair of headphones. To get the same functionality with the iPhone I need a half dozen dongles, which come at a premium price, and if they break when I'm on the road can't be easily replaced at any random corner store.
Not sure why you're trying to defend Apple in this. All they're doing is trying to take over the standards with their own proprietary format, and it's not giving you anything other than a headache and a lighter wallet.
Hyperbole, much, Anonymous Apple Hater?
"Half a dozen dongles".
Well, if you don't have BT or don't want to use the Lightning-based Earbuds that came FREE with your iPhone, you can use the Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter that came FREE with your iPhone. Done. If you need/want an additional Apple-branded Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter, those are available for the princely sum of $9. And while they may not be available "at the corner store", most people in the U.S. live within a short drive to a Walmart store, which not only sells Apple Lightning to 3.5 mm adapters, but actually STOCKS them IN STOREs, and for lower than list price:
They are looking for their thoroughly designed DRM mechanism to remain intact. The way it is being enforced at present is not severe, but the mechanism needs to remain sharpened and active for when the 'analog hole' is sinched shut in the future.
It is already a hassle to get quality 'wired' headsets at places like Walmart. One would have to be a fool to not notice the progression toward music being 'locked down' for the ordinary consumer.
Yeah, the Company that single-handedly beat-down the music content providers into REMOVING DRM more than a decade ago, somehow has a secret (or non-secret) DRM agenda when it comes to... music?
You try to refute his arguments, yet you cannot find a technical reason that is satisfactory. Maybe you should agree that it is more likely just money.
So the AC OP's claims were based on absolutely nothing; so why should MachineShedFred have to offer any "proof" in rebuttal or "lose the argument"?
Wrong. You are trying to find technical reasons for the decision when with Apple it's always about money. Someone did a revenue analysis and decided that with lower demand for the newer hardware, there was more money to be made this way as opposed to feature lock-in (or lock-out;). With Apple, it's always about the revenue.
Mods: There is NOTHING in the LEAST "Insightful" in the Parent's AC Post.
Stop piling-on, Apple Haters, or show PROOF that "With Apple, it's always about the revenue."
Apple could even do things like short run magazines, that only had five-ten issues, or really interactive stuff since it's presented in an app. There are a lot of exciting possibilities there!
And they already have the Publishing and viewing Infrastructure there for rich, interactive content, with their largely unknown, but still excellent (and Free!), iBooks Author Application:
I found it funny, when my grandma, and my not very smart Apple fan dad installed "magazine" and "newspaper" apps. Nearly the epitome of the opposite of a digital native... The only thing missing would be for them to print out the Internet. (We actually have a word for that, here in Germany: Internetausdrucker. It means literally that.)
So this nonsense right here... Let's just say, the people who coined the term "Eternal September" couldn't have imagined how bad it would get...
We need a new Internet. For real digital natives only. (So if you confuse the WWW with the Internet, don't have root on any of your devices, don’t own a personal computer, or can't at the very least make a shell script, you can't get in.)
Ah, glad to see the Computer Priesthood is alive and well, and still doesn't get why it will never be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
I'm curious how this would change if app authors gave you a license to both the Android and iOS version of their app when you bought it. I imagine a lot of the loyalty is actually to the person's library of apps, not the OS itself.
The other day a friend told me of going to a meeting and seeing a guy who had an Apple logo tattooed to his upper arm. We had a good laugh. Now that there is loyalty - perhaps cultish loyalty. So I was going to comment that Apple users are obviously more loyal using this anecdote, but then I did quick image search and sure enough - there are idiots out there with Android logo tattoos.:(
Hey, I'll give you serious cred for at least doing the research BEFORE posting! And then, even MORE cred for being HONEST about the results!!!
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The fuel is for PROPULSION, genius.
Here's an idea, next time you think you've come up with a (beyond obvious) solution that NASA hasn't thought of, figure out what YOU are missing instead.
True enough.
I realized my error about 3 seconds after I posed it... Duh!
Dont bother explaining using real tech information. This apple cheerleader will not understand or not accept any answer that is not pro-apple.
As a former sound engineer and a audio enthusiast (NOT an audiophile!), I very well understand the cumulative errors from chains of transcoding using lossy formats like AAC.
Perhaps that's why Apple added FLAC Support (as well as the ALAC already supported) in iOS 11.
And besides, since Apple controls the drivers for the entire audio chain and BT chain, I would be very surprised if they re-encode AAC source material, so long as it is at 256 kbps or below. Apple isn't stupid when it comes to audio.
Design the next version with the ability to accept fuel while up in space?
Fund up on some type of robotic refueling mission?
Some way of getting rocket propellant transferred in space. With a robot. In space.
Hey, I've got an idea: It's in orbit around the SUN, FFS!
How about, um, SOLAR POWER?!?
Learn how to drink coffee.
I know how to drink coffee. I was just falling-asleep-at-the-keyboard, and the cup started to tip, and...
Licensed macOS computers would imply that Apple had produced an open documented hardware platform. They haven't, and they can't except at huge expense. And they won't because that isn't their chosen market segment.
Apple thrives on being a fractional player in the PC and the Cellphone market. Their whole market approach is to skim off some of the people who will pay extra.
Hey, stupid!
What's "Open" or "Documented" about Windows?
It seems to exist on MANY different hardware platforms.
You're an idiot. Just go away.
That's the beauty in Android, you can choose from an array of different phones with different features and keep Android as the OS. If you're crying it's not fair, then that's Apple's fault for not allowing iOS on other devices.
The Android-lovers are REALLY lucky Apple DOESN'T allow iOS on other hardware.
Android would be GONE in about a month!
"There are NO pro-Apple ads IN iTunes"
There are NO pro apple devices. Period.
I see what you did there, COWARD.
And, BTW, I highly doubt that people need an 18-core Xeon-based 5k-Display desktop for surfing the intarwebs.
Apple-Hating Slashtards: They're all the same, COWARDLY Anonymous Posters.
KILL AC POSTING, SLASHDOT!!! It's JUST not worth it!
anything but apple. Yuk
Anyone but ACs.
Retch.
Dude, the poster claims to be a "digital native", which means it's some whiny kid whose opinion is irrelevant.
It's a fucking millennial mouthing off.
Oh, look, it's one AC coming to the aid of another AC.
BAN ALL ACs, SLASHDOT!!!
German opera playing very softly puts me to sleep quick.
For me, it's Vogon Poetry!
Sleeping well is a wise investment. It will help you be healthy and productive.
...and waste 30 years of your life, on average. Time you will NEVER get back.
by only allowing AAC files in the app they ensure the best performance and battery life.
You mean, best performance for people that don't care for audio quality... which is the same public that uses regular bluetooth. But hey, a little bit more battery time! Super worth it!
I would give $1000 to anyone who could RELIABLY distinguish 256k bps AAC from ANY lossless audio encoding format.
Can't be done. Sorry.
Visionary? Magical? Great innovation?
Reinventing the wheel might be great, unless of course all you need is a wheel.
3.5mm jack just works. It's cheap it does what it needs to do. No real need to change it yet.
If they really want to do something new with sound they should make their stupid music app play FLAC. Isnt that the whole point of getting sound over W1 headphones? (AKA"special blutetooth")
Seriously, for such an innovator this is rubbish.
Even though W1-equipped Apple earbuds stream over 256k AAC (which I defy any human to distinguish from lossless), it appears your ridiculous, storage-wasting wish has been granted:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
But seriously? FLAC (or ALAC) on a fucking PHONE used in a Mobile environment is ASININE.
With my Samsung I carry a usb cable and power adapter, and a pair of headphones.
To get the same functionality with the iPhone I need a half dozen dongles, which come at a premium price, and if they break when I'm on the road can't be easily replaced at any random corner store.
Not sure why you're trying to defend Apple in this. All they're doing is trying to take over the standards with their own proprietary format, and it's not giving you anything other than a headache and a lighter wallet.
Hyperbole, much, Anonymous Apple Hater?
"Half a dozen dongles".
Well, if you don't have BT or don't want to use the Lightning-based Earbuds that came FREE with your iPhone, you can use the Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter that came FREE with your iPhone. Done. If you need/want an additional Apple-branded Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter, those are available for the princely sum of $9. And while they may not be available "at the corner store", most people in the U.S. live within a short drive to a Walmart store, which not only sells Apple Lightning to 3.5 mm adapters, but actually STOCKS them IN STOREs, and for lower than list price:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lig...
So, blow me, Hater. Next time check your facts before you prove yourself to be not only Anonymous and a Coward; but also an IDIOT.
break out the bitch-forks
LOL! Great phrase!!!
Apple users can't use Pirate bay - because reasons.
And what, exactly, would those "reasons" be, Hater?
They are looking for their thoroughly designed DRM mechanism to remain intact. The way it is being enforced at present is not severe, but the mechanism needs to remain sharpened and active for when the 'analog hole' is sinched shut in the future.
It is already a hassle to get quality 'wired' headsets at places like Walmart. One would have to be a fool to not notice the progression toward music being 'locked down' for the ordinary consumer.
Yeah, the Company that single-handedly beat-down the music content providers into REMOVING DRM more than a decade ago, somehow has a secret (or non-secret) DRM agenda when it comes to... music?
Yeahrightsure.
You try to refute his arguments, yet you cannot find a technical reason that is satisfactory. Maybe you should agree that it is more likely just money.
So the AC OP's claims were based on absolutely nothing; so why should MachineShedFred have to offer any "proof" in rebuttal or "lose the argument"?
apples history is evidence enough.
So is the history of ACs...
Wrong. You are trying to find technical reasons for the decision when with Apple it's always about money. Someone did a revenue analysis and decided that with lower demand for the newer hardware, there was more money to be made this way as opposed to feature lock-in (or lock-out ;). With Apple, it's always about the revenue.
Mods: There is NOTHING in the LEAST "Insightful" in the Parent's AC Post.
Stop piling-on, Apple Haters, or show PROOF that "With Apple, it's always about the revenue."
Apple could even do things like short run magazines, that only had five-ten issues, or really interactive stuff since it's presented in an app. There are a lot of exciting possibilities there!
And they already have the Publishing and viewing Infrastructure there for rich, interactive content, with their largely unknown, but still excellent (and Free!), iBooks Author Application:
https://www.apple.com/ibooks-a...
I found it funny, when my grandma, and my not very smart Apple fan dad installed "magazine" and "newspaper" apps. Nearly the epitome of the opposite of a digital native ... The only thing missing would be for them to print out the Internet. (We actually have a word for that, here in Germany: Internetausdrucker. It means literally that.)
So this nonsense right here ... Let's just say, the people who coined the term "Eternal September" couldn't have imagined how bad it would get ...
We need a new Internet. For real digital natives only. (So if you confuse the WWW with the Internet, don't have root on any of your devices, don’t own a personal computer, or can't at the very least make a shell script, you can't get in.)
Ah, glad to see the Computer Priesthood is alive and well, and still doesn't get why it will never be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
I'm curious how this would change if app authors gave you a license to both the Android and iOS version of their app when you bought it. I imagine a lot of the loyalty is actually to the person's library of apps, not the OS itself.
THAT is a VERY interesting point.
The other day a friend told me of going to a meeting and seeing a guy who had an Apple logo tattooed to his upper arm. We had a good laugh. Now that there is loyalty - perhaps cultish loyalty. So I was going to comment that Apple users are obviously more loyal using this anecdote, but then I did quick image search and sure enough - there are idiots out there with Android logo tattoos. :(
Hey, I'll give you serious cred for at least doing the research BEFORE posting! And then, even MORE cred for being HONEST about the results!!!
So rare here in Slashtard-land...
Android users don't appear to be switching to the iPhone like they used to.
No Android user I know EVER switched to iOS. Why would you ?
No iOS user I know EVER switched to Android.
Why would you?