Spotify seems to work best for me. Have tried Apple Music - didn't like it at all.
How were you using Apple Music? Were you listening to the "curated" "Stations", or doing what I do, and simply Searching and Streaming whatever I want, whenever I want, wherever I want, from the ENTIRE iTunes Catalog?
Because that's the way I use Apple Music. And if I find myself going back again and again to the same album/song, I will either buy it from iTunes, or buy the physical media from wherever.
For me, Apple Music serves two functions:
Music to listen to while at work, without the hassle of loading it onto my phone.
As an "Auditioning" service; where I can "live" with music before committing to adding it permanently to my collection.
Yes, there are a few SONGS that aren't available for Streaming; but those are in the "Current Radio Hits" category, and I personally don't mess with teenager-music anymore. Plus, those tend to appear on Apple Music's "Stations", if I wanted to listen to new-fashioned "radio" broadcasts.
or a high noise threshold car, 192kbps might be good enough.
As someone who purchases music in 96/24 (or better) DVD-A format whenever possible (and has a DVD-A player), if you think you can hear ANYTHING above 128 kbps AAC (or probably even MP3) in a CAR, you're DELUSIONAL.
Since I've never been a member of the Apple hive mind, I don't know if the average car stereo can play that format exclusively used by Apple or not. I simply don't need to care.
Most of my music collection predates iTunes anyways.
Again, AAC is NOT "Exclusive to Apple". It is an industry-standard CODEC developed by Dolby Labs.
That's why you can find it in PLENTY of Non-Apple software and hardware.
When I buy music, I do it via Amazon (if you by the disc, they give you the MP3). I like the.mp3 format. I won't buy music via iTunes because of the proprietary format that won't play via USB stick in to my car stereo.
For streaming, it's Pandora and TuneInRadio (I stream a station I like located far away.... radio is crappy in my locality).
Get a clue from the clue box.
iTunes uses, and always has used, the Industry Standard Dolby AAC.
It is your car stereo that needs an upgrade; not iTunes.
Oh, and Apple Music sidesteps ALL of that, by allowing you to stream nearly the ENTIRE iTunes Catalog at your whim.
And yet, lots of people sell Pentalobe Screwdrivers (including iFixit, who whined about them), and yet Apple has not taken a single one of them to court for Patent Infringement.
Why should you have to break the law to fix your phone?
Pentalobe is super easy to strip. In the hundreds of macbook pros I've serviced, I've run across less than a hanful of genuinely stripped phillips screws. Stripped pentalobes are pretty common, and even opening them the first time damages the socket of the screw.
Pentalobe may be super easy to strip, if you try and remove it without a Pentalobe driver. That obviously doesn't count.
If you've only come across a "hanful" [sic] of stripped #00 Phillips, consider yourself lucky.
I'm pretty sure the battery would be considered a module, too.
Regardless, that's beside the point.
To use a car analogy: If my car's check engine light comes on, and I replace an oxygen sensor to fix it, have I not actually "repaired" the car, because all I did was replace the oxygen sensor "module?" Sure, I'm not pulling the sensor apart and figuring out what's wrong with it, but I'm still repairing the car by replacing the bad component.
Replacing a bad motherboard or display is just as much a repair as anything, because it takes a broken phone and returns it to fully operating condition.
Your logic is flawed, because you are trying to bend-over-backwards to argue (as usual on Slashdot).
If you pull the ECM and replace it because the O2 Sensor input failed, that's a Module-Level repair.
If you pull the ECM and find and replace the open resistor that is making the O2 Sensor input fail, then put the same ECM back into the vehicle, that's a Component-Level repair. Got it?
Simply replacing the O2 sensor, a Fuel Injector, a Spark Plug/Igniter; those are all components, because they are "atomic" as far as REPAIR goes; IOW, there is no "repairing" them, only REPLACING. Just like no one REPAIRS a bad Port-Driver transistor in a Microcontroller; because you um, Can't. All you can do is REPLACE the entire Microcontroller.
But the ABS controller it resides in is what is considered a "Module", so swapping IT out entirely is a Module-Level Repair. But, if you DO replace a Microcontroller with a bad Port-Driver transistor in your ABS controller, then stick that same ABS controller back into your vehicle, you effected a "Component-Level" repair.
But wholesale replacing of an ECM, ABS, Coil-Pack, Body-Control-Computer, Dashboard Unit, etc. that contains "atomic" components (ICs, transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors, etc.) without troubleshooting/repairing at that level (assuming you can even get to that level due to encapsulation) is considered Module-Level repair.
But a repair is a repair, and I didn't mean to imply that one was less valid than another; just that, on some devices, "component level" repair by the average person is in no way practical. And mobile devices fall squarely into the "cannot troubleshoot at the component-level" category.
Honestly, I actually believe that the integration of "infotainment" systems has more to do with resource-sharing cost and space savings than proprietary lock-in.
Then why did they feel the need to encrypt the communication between the body ECU and the engine ECU, if not to lock out aftermarket programmers?
And when States make Laws that prevent the removal of all of the computer controlled stuff, they are effectively supporting this proprietary lock-in.
Well, encryption of internal busses MIGHT, just MIGHT be an anti-hacking measure.
The States made engine-controller anti-circumvention laws for EMISSION CONTROL purposes. So blame the EPA.
Look, I have a double-layer tinfoil hat at the ready at all times myself; but sometimes, it really ISN'T a Conspiracy. And this is one of those times.
Maybe they would convert to pentalobular, since they are so great.
Pentalobe screws are Patented; precisely for that reason.
If they actually wanted to go with something better than Phillips they would have gone with Torx.
They did that, too, long, long ago; but I think that they wanted something that was easier for precision hand-assembly than the Torx. At that size, a Torx head looks like a damned DOT to the naked eye; but the Pentalobe has much larger "features" (lobes), that the assembler can visually locate without necessarily resorting to magnification,plus the "lobes" are much "meatier" (as opposed to the tiny "teeth" of Torx at that size), which means far more torque can be applied before camming-out (which Phillips screws are actually DESIGNED to do). And the final assembly of iPhones is still a mostly-manual operation.
We're not talking asinine BS like how the DMCA forbids you from modding your Playstation... on your own and with no interaction with, or aid from, Sony. Many of these laws place some very onerous requirements on the vendors.
They require vendors to surrender internal documentation, designs, schematics, and procedures to pretty much any random un-vetted third party that wants them. This includes software patches and updates, and sometimes even private signing keys. Sometimes the vendor is required to let these people piggyback on their own parts and supplies chain, rather than have the repair shops establish their own supplier relationships. They usually abrogate the usual NDA requirements for third-party partners. And they almost always require all of that with no compensation.
No company in their right mind would let that pass without fighting tooth and nail against it.
And yet, lots of people sell Pentalobe Screwdrivers (including iFixit, who whined about them), and yet Apple has not taken a single one of them to court for Patent Infringement.
Maybe that's because it really WASN'T an anti-consumer measure at all; but rather, maybe, just maybe, a pro-reliability (MUCH harder to strip the head than a Phillips) measure.
The iPhone now does a similar thing with the fingerprint sensor. It's a very common form of failure, as the sensor is delicate and exposed to the outside world. But the phone stores the sensor serial in secure memory - if the sensor is replaced, the phone disables itsself.
That was not an anti-consumer-repair measure; but rather, a CAREFULLY THOUGHT-OUT anti-SECURITY-CIRCUMVENTION measure.
Since, for very good security reasons, the Fingerprint Sensor ITSELF stores the Fingerprint data, if Apple had NOT taken pains to PAIR the SoC with the Fingerprint Sensor, ANYONE that acquired physical possession of your iPhone could simply replace YOUR fingerprint sensor with YOUR fingerprint data with THEIR fingerprint sensor with THEIR fingerprint data and VOILA!!! Instant Access!!!
And yet Apple is pilloried by idiots like you, for thinking this far ahead.
I don't know that it was ever required, but in the 50's and 60's it was common for most things you could buy to have schematics available from the manufacturer, or sometimes even include the schematics with the device.
That started to die out in the 1970's and 80's, and was just about 100% dead by the 90's.
Yes, as the active device (transistor) count went from the single-digits to MILLIONS, and the number of leads on the active components went from 3 to 16 to 240 BGA "pins" you can't even SEE, and the pitch of the component leads and PCB traces went from.030" to.005", and the average number of layers of the PCB went from 1 to 10, with many signal paths ENTIRELY "buried".
Can't imagine what ever happened to that Sam's Photofacts for your iPhone. Must be a conspiracy!
Reliable? An iPhone? You must be kidding right? Have you ever seen or even heard of one?
Oh, wait, your whole post is arguing that locked-down unrepeairable crap is somehow more reliable. Yep, the iPhone got much more reliable after the pentalobular screws.
You are either trolling, or are a paid shill.
Actually, they did.
It isn't hard to find Pentalobe screwdrivers. Yay, free market!
And Pentalobe screws are MORE user-friendly than #00 Philips they replaced; because it is FAR FAR FAR too easy for people not used to handling precision screw sizes to STRIP the HEADS of the Philips screws than it is the Pentalobe screws.
Not everything has to be a slotted or Phillips. That's why there are already dozens of screw/bolt head designs. Because some of them were created because they are actually BETTER DESIGNS. And guess what? Both the Torx and Pentalobe heads fall into that category.
Even normal, non-autonomous cars are becoming this way. It used to be it was easy to replace the vendor's radio system with your own using a standard form factor and connections. Now, it's "infotainment" tied closely into the rest of the car, and will throw codes if you try to remove it.
Honestly, I actually believe that the integration of "infotainment" systems has more to do with resource-sharing cost and space savings than proprietary lock-in.
I mean, how many REDUNDANT, separate displays and control-clusters do you need/can you fit in a frickin' CAR?
Now I DO think that some industry-standards (sort of like CAN, for example) could help a lot; but then a "car stereo" would have to get much more complex (and thus more expensive) to be able to display/control arbitrary "automotive" functions in addition to its primary duty of "entertainment".
At this point, a good bit of the "entertainment" stuff is expected to be transacted over Bluetooth from the phone sitting on the seat or in your pocket. You can still generally upgrade power amps and speakers; so it's just the "player" part that is harder to replace with the old-skool Pioneer Cassette Deck you can buy at Walmart.
If the device is in warranty then it's the manufacturers responsibility to repair or replace it assuming it hasn't been subjected to abuse which would void the warranty.
If the device is out of warranty due to expiration or abuse then the owner has every right to attempt repair. The manufacturer no longer has a say and the owner has all the power/responsibility for resulting "fire, explosion, radiation, hearing or vision loss, or children swallowing small parts."
The manufacturer has no obligation to supply repair procedures or to repair the product but the owner may repair or contract with a third party to repair. Caveat Emptor.
Any law which tries to force a manufacturer do anything it has not freely contracted to do is just plain wrong.
And that's why it will never happen. Not because of licensing; but rather, because of the First Sale doctrine. Once you purchase it, it's YOURS. The only power the OEM has WHATSOEVER is the right to refuse to honor a WARRANTY due to tampering during that period.
"No User Servicable Parts" does not mean "No User Replacable Parts".
True, you can't "service" a L-Ion battery, an ARM CPU or an LCD screen, but you can replace a battery/motherboard/display.
Except the battery, the rest of your "component" replacement-examples are nothing more than module-level replacements.
No wonder you're likely a single person. You can't be bothered to care or even show that you care. Absolutely unattractive to any sort of potential mate.
Conversely., you're so busy typing command-line incantations into your fucking PHONE that your potential mate got bored and went home...
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Spotify seems to work best for me. Have tried Apple Music - didn't like it at all.
How were you using Apple Music? Were you listening to the "curated" "Stations", or doing what I do, and simply Searching and Streaming whatever I want, whenever I want, wherever I want, from the ENTIRE iTunes Catalog?
Because that's the way I use Apple Music. And if I find myself going back again and again to the same album/song, I will either buy it from iTunes, or buy the physical media from wherever.
For me, Apple Music serves two functions:
Music to listen to while at work, without the hassle of loading it onto my phone.
As an "Auditioning" service; where I can "live" with music before committing to adding it permanently to my collection.
Yes, there are a few SONGS that aren't available for Streaming; but those are in the "Current Radio Hits" category, and I personally don't mess with teenager-music anymore. Plus, those tend to appear on Apple Music's "Stations", if I wanted to listen to new-fashioned "radio" broadcasts.
Same, streaming is tracking you, producers are buying that data and creating new music to match your favorable reactions to existing music.
So when you say it all sounds the same, get ready for a future of even more of that.
Good! I sure hope so; since I listen to little else but Prog Rock.
or a high noise threshold car, 192kbps might be good enough.
As someone who purchases music in 96/24 (or better) DVD-A format whenever possible (and has a DVD-A player), if you think you can hear ANYTHING above 128 kbps AAC (or probably even MP3) in a CAR, you're DELUSIONAL.
Since I've never been a member of the Apple hive mind, I don't know if the average car stereo can play that format exclusively used by Apple or not. I simply don't need to care.
Most of my music collection predates iTunes anyways.
Again, AAC is NOT "Exclusive to Apple". It is an industry-standard CODEC developed by Dolby Labs.
That's why you can find it in PLENTY of Non-Apple software and hardware.
No Hive Mind required.
When I buy music, I do it via Amazon (if you by the disc, they give you the MP3). I like the .mp3 format. I won't buy music via iTunes because of the proprietary format that won't play via USB stick in to my car stereo.
For streaming, it's Pandora and TuneInRadio (I stream a station I like located far away.... radio is crappy in my locality).
Get a clue from the clue box.
iTunes uses, and always has used, the Industry Standard Dolby AAC.
It is your car stereo that needs an upgrade; not iTunes.
Oh, and Apple Music sidesteps ALL of that, by allowing you to stream nearly the ENTIRE iTunes Catalog at your whim.
And yet, lots of people sell Pentalobe Screwdrivers (including iFixit, who whined about them), and yet Apple has not taken a single one of them to court for Patent Infringement.
Why should you have to break the law to fix your phone?
Pentalobe is super easy to strip. In the hundreds of macbook pros I've serviced, I've run across less than a hanful of genuinely stripped phillips screws. Stripped pentalobes are pretty common, and even opening them the first time damages the socket of the screw.
Pentalobe may be super easy to strip, if you try and remove it without a Pentalobe driver. That obviously doesn't count.
If you've only come across a "hanful" [sic] of stripped #00 Phillips, consider yourself lucky.
And who's breaking the law?
I'm pretty sure the battery would be considered a module, too. Regardless, that's beside the point. To use a car analogy: If my car's check engine light comes on, and I replace an oxygen sensor to fix it, have I not actually "repaired" the car, because all I did was replace the oxygen sensor "module?" Sure, I'm not pulling the sensor apart and figuring out what's wrong with it, but I'm still repairing the car by replacing the bad component. Replacing a bad motherboard or display is just as much a repair as anything, because it takes a broken phone and returns it to fully operating condition.
Your logic is flawed, because you are trying to bend-over-backwards to argue (as usual on Slashdot).
If you pull the ECM and replace it because the O2 Sensor input failed, that's a Module-Level repair.
If you pull the ECM and find and replace the open resistor that is making the O2 Sensor input fail, then put the same ECM back into the vehicle, that's a Component-Level repair. Got it?
Simply replacing the O2 sensor, a Fuel Injector, a Spark Plug/Igniter; those are all components, because they are "atomic" as far as REPAIR goes; IOW, there is no "repairing" them, only REPLACING. Just like no one REPAIRS a bad Port-Driver transistor in a Microcontroller; because you um, Can't. All you can do is REPLACE the entire Microcontroller.
But the ABS controller it resides in is what is considered a "Module", so swapping IT out entirely is a Module-Level Repair. But, if you DO replace a Microcontroller with a bad Port-Driver transistor in your ABS controller, then stick that same ABS controller back into your vehicle, you effected a "Component-Level" repair.
But wholesale replacing of an ECM, ABS, Coil-Pack, Body-Control-Computer, Dashboard Unit, etc. that contains "atomic" components (ICs, transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors, etc.) without troubleshooting/repairing at that level (assuming you can even get to that level due to encapsulation) is considered Module-Level repair.
A battery is generally considered a Component, even though most modern LiOn-type batteries actually contain a microcontroller on board. Here's what the industry defines as a "module".
But a repair is a repair, and I didn't mean to imply that one was less valid than another; just that, on some devices, "component level" repair by the average person is in no way practical. And mobile devices fall squarely into the "cannot troubleshoot at the component-level" category.
Honestly, I actually believe that the integration of "infotainment" systems has more to do with resource-sharing cost and space savings than proprietary lock-in.
Then why did they feel the need to encrypt the communication between the body ECU and the engine ECU, if not to lock out aftermarket programmers?
And when States make Laws that prevent the removal of all of the computer controlled stuff, they are effectively supporting this proprietary lock-in.
Well, encryption of internal busses MIGHT, just MIGHT be an anti-hacking measure.
The States made engine-controller anti-circumvention laws for EMISSION CONTROL purposes. So blame the EPA.
Look, I have a double-layer tinfoil hat at the ready at all times myself; but sometimes, it really ISN'T a Conspiracy. And this is one of those times.
And how many pro-Android users post that it has had a particular feature for years, then the rabid fan bois be all "we do it better"?
Um, LOTS of them.
You must be new here...
Not sure what you are calling a "hex screw".
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That's what I thought.
They suck when they get vewy, vewy tiny. Round-out in a microsecond.
ome on, do you actually believe this
The parts that I actually said, yes.
MUCH harder to strip the head than a Phillips
Pentalobe is definitely better than phillips, but they aren't as good as a hex screw imo (and yes, I have a pentalobe screwdriver)
Not sure what you are calling a "hex screw".
Maybe they would convert to pentalobular, since they are so great.
Pentalobe screws are Patented; precisely for that reason.
If they actually wanted to go with something better than Phillips they would have gone with Torx.
They did that, too, long, long ago; but I think that they wanted something that was easier for precision hand-assembly than the Torx. At that size, a Torx head looks like a damned DOT to the naked eye; but the Pentalobe has much larger "features" (lobes), that the assembler can visually locate without necessarily resorting to magnification,plus the "lobes" are much "meatier" (as opposed to the tiny "teeth" of Torx at that size), which means far more torque can be applied before camming-out (which Phillips screws are actually DESIGNED to do). And the final assembly of iPhones is still a mostly-manual operation.
Apple needed a new OS, NeXT had a product and a credible crew,
Apple was already deep in the throes of Rhapsody. Now, whether than would have been better than what they ended up with is infinitely debateable.
But NeXT didn't have any SALES, which is why they were for sale fairly cheap.
We're not talking asinine BS like how the DMCA forbids you from modding your Playstation... on your own and with no interaction with, or aid from, Sony. Many of these laws place some very onerous requirements on the vendors.
They require vendors to surrender internal documentation, designs, schematics, and procedures to pretty much any random un-vetted third party that wants them. This includes software patches and updates, and sometimes even private signing keys. Sometimes the vendor is required to let these people piggyback on their own parts and supplies chain, rather than have the repair shops establish their own supplier relationships. They usually abrogate the usual NDA requirements for third-party partners. And they almost always require all of that with no compensation.
No company in their right mind would let that pass without fighting tooth and nail against it.
PRECISELY!
Making something repairable also makes it more complex, more expensive and probably less reliable.
Yeah whatever. They can start with not using patented screwdrivers so people can't get them. A lot of this has nothing to do with reliability.
And yet, lots of people sell Pentalobe Screwdrivers (including iFixit, who whined about them), and yet Apple has not taken a single one of them to court for Patent Infringement.
Maybe that's because it really WASN'T an anti-consumer measure at all; but rather, maybe, just maybe, a pro-reliability (MUCH harder to strip the head than a Phillips) measure.
The iPhone now does a similar thing with the fingerprint sensor. It's a very common form of failure, as the sensor is delicate and exposed to the outside world. But the phone stores the sensor serial in secure memory - if the sensor is replaced, the phone disables itsself.
That was not an anti-consumer-repair measure; but rather, a CAREFULLY THOUGHT-OUT anti-SECURITY-CIRCUMVENTION measure.
Since, for very good security reasons, the Fingerprint Sensor ITSELF stores the Fingerprint data, if Apple had NOT taken pains to PAIR the SoC with the Fingerprint Sensor, ANYONE that acquired physical possession of your iPhone could simply replace YOUR fingerprint sensor with YOUR fingerprint data with THEIR fingerprint sensor with THEIR fingerprint data and VOILA!!! Instant Access!!!
And yet Apple is pilloried by idiots like you, for thinking this far ahead.
Any gearhead should be able to open and fix stuff on their own. It's really not that hard, and you can buy everything everywhere. What's the point?
Never been inside of a cellphone, have you?
I don't know that it was ever required, but in the 50's and 60's it was common for most things you could buy to have schematics available from the manufacturer, or sometimes even include the schematics with the device.
That started to die out in the 1970's and 80's, and was just about 100% dead by the 90's.
Yes, as the active device (transistor) count went from the single-digits to MILLIONS, and the number of leads on the active components went from 3 to 16 to 240 BGA "pins" you can't even SEE, and the pitch of the component leads and PCB traces went from .030" to .005", and the average number of layers of the PCB went from 1 to 10, with many signal paths ENTIRELY "buried".
Can't imagine what ever happened to that Sam's Photofacts for your iPhone. Must be a conspiracy!
Reliable? An iPhone? You must be kidding right? Have you ever seen or even heard of one?
Oh, wait, your whole post is arguing that locked-down unrepeairable crap is somehow more reliable. Yep, the iPhone got much more reliable after the pentalobular screws.
You are either trolling, or are a paid shill.
Actually, they did.
It isn't hard to find Pentalobe screwdrivers. Yay, free market!
And Pentalobe screws are MORE user-friendly than #00 Philips they replaced; because it is FAR FAR FAR too easy for people not used to handling precision screw sizes to STRIP the HEADS of the Philips screws than it is the Pentalobe screws.
Not everything has to be a slotted or Phillips. That's why there are already dozens of screw/bolt head designs. Because some of them were created because they are actually BETTER DESIGNS. And guess what? Both the Torx and Pentalobe heads fall into that category.
Get over it.
Even normal, non-autonomous cars are becoming this way. It used to be it was easy to replace the vendor's radio system with your own using a standard form factor and connections. Now, it's "infotainment" tied closely into the rest of the car, and will throw codes if you try to remove it.
Honestly, I actually believe that the integration of "infotainment" systems has more to do with resource-sharing cost and space savings than proprietary lock-in.
I mean, how many REDUNDANT, separate displays and control-clusters do you need/can you fit in a frickin' CAR?
Now I DO think that some industry-standards (sort of like CAN, for example) could help a lot; but then a "car stereo" would have to get much more complex (and thus more expensive) to be able to display/control arbitrary "automotive" functions in addition to its primary duty of "entertainment".
At this point, a good bit of the "entertainment" stuff is expected to be transacted over Bluetooth from the phone sitting on the seat or in your pocket. You can still generally upgrade power amps and speakers; so it's just the "player" part that is harder to replace with the old-skool Pioneer Cassette Deck you can buy at Walmart.
But as I said, that is fast becoming irrelevant.
If the device is in warranty then it's the manufacturers responsibility to repair or replace it assuming it hasn't been subjected to abuse which would void the warranty.
If the device is out of warranty due to expiration or abuse then the owner has every right to attempt repair. The manufacturer no longer has a say and the owner has all the power/responsibility for resulting "fire, explosion, radiation, hearing or vision loss, or children swallowing small parts."
The manufacturer has no obligation to supply repair procedures or to repair the product but the owner may repair or contract with a third party to repair. Caveat Emptor.
Any law which tries to force a manufacturer do anything it has not freely contracted to do is just plain wrong.
And that's why it will never happen. Not because of licensing; but rather, because of the First Sale doctrine. Once you purchase it, it's YOURS. The only power the OEM has WHATSOEVER is the right to refuse to honor a WARRANTY due to tampering during that period.
If you get 1 update during that year, you are lucky.
Maybe in the cheap Android world.
"No User Servicable Parts" does not mean "No User Replacable Parts". True, you can't "service" a L-Ion battery, an ARM CPU or an LCD screen, but you can replace a battery/motherboard/display.
Except the battery, the rest of your "component" replacement-examples are nothing more than module-level replacements.
No wonder you're likely a single person. You can't be bothered to care or even show that you care. Absolutely unattractive to any sort of potential mate.
Conversely., you're so busy typing command-line incantations into your fucking PHONE that your potential mate got bored and went home...