Apple Said to Acquire Color • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by killahpriest » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 12:29 PM UTC

alanh wrote: post #86

siglesias wrote: post #68

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Last I checked iTunes Match, which is the child of the Lala team, is working pretty well.

Sarcasm? I’m an iTunes Match user, and while I love the dream, the reality isn’t quite there yet. The experience is pretty choppy, even confusing. (No, I’m not talking about buffering streams.)

Agreed, the quality of iTunes Match is subpar. The music is slow to load, doesn't sync correctly, is difficult to delete, and is really jittery. I've since tried Pandora One, Grooveshark Pro, and Spotify Premium. By far, I've had the best experience with Spotify. (iPhone 4)

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by killahpriest » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 12:29 PM UTC

Hari_Seldon wrote: post #129

tolmasky wrote: post #102

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iTunes Match would have been the best thing I ever used had it come out one (or more) years earlier. Instead, it arrived after I had already tried Spotify, and by then I had tried something better.

Spotify bears no resemblance to iTunes Match so how can it be better?

Offline music. Duh.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by RyanMcGreal » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 12:45 PM UTC

shiven wrote: post #118

phpnode wrote: post #113

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A lot of HN users find the whole concept of hell banning objectionable. Because for a large number of those affected, they're not spammers or trolls, they've just made one comment that has irked an admin. It is our duty as decent human beings to inform them.

Precisely my biggest problem with HN. There needs to be a way to repeal HellBanning, some sort of an appeal mechanism or a time-based auto-repeal that kicks in after say 4 weeks of good behavior such as 25 upvoted (albeit dead) comments from the HBanned user.

Agreed - I like the idea of purgatorybanning for borderline users.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by Hari_Seldon » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 12:45 PM UTC

killahpriest wrote: post #132

Hari_Seldon wrote: post #129

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Spotify bears no resemblance to iTunes Match so how can it be better?

Offline music. Duh.

Spotify is online music, what are you talking about?

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by beedogs » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #57

JabavuAdams wrote: post #43

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Wow, that sounded authentic. I think I just barfed a little in my mouth.

If it makes it any better, most of the phrasing was from their About page.

Wow, their actual About page reads like a bunch of potheads started writing an "About" page and got distracted.

http://www.color.com/about

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by nanijoe » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

ryguytilidie wrote: post #96

alanh wrote: post #86

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Sarcasm? I’m an iTunes Match user, and while I love the dream, the reality isn’t quite there yet. The experience is pretty choppy, even confusing. (No, I’m not talking about buffering streams.)

Considering iTunes match is one of the best things I've ever used I'm going to say no sarcasm and that you're in the minority.

Count one more person in that minority..my iTunes match experience has been pretty bad. My songs randomly get grayed out, and if a song has not already been downloaded to a device I own, I'm never sure if it will play or not.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by beedogs » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 1:08 PM UTC

pclark wrote: post #87

I would have liked to see Hacker News applauding Bill Nugyen for landing in such a way if these rumours are true. Colour has a team, with no products nor leadership and they're going to sell for tens of millions of dollars. To the most successful company on the planet.

well, it's frankly kind of embarrassing.

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by dmd » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

Hari_Seldon wrote: post #134

killahpriest wrote: post #132

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Offline music. Duh.

Spotify is online music, what are you talking about?

http://www.spotify.com/us/about/features/offline-mode/

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by AznHisoka » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

The startup Gods are just messing with our heads.

"Color raises 40 Million" -"OMG.. we're in a bubble" -"Ridiculous... waste of money"

"Color is about to shut down" - "See I told you so" - "Ha.. saw that coming"

"Color acquired by Apple" - "WTH is going on?" - "I work 100 times as hard making a product people want! Where's my payday?!!"

Re: Apple Said to Acquire Color

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Post by tjogin » Thu, Oct 18, 2012, 2:08 PM UTC

grey-area wrote: post #109

tjogin wrote: post #97

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Jumping the shark means to have peaked and now being past ones former glory. But Apple never had any peak or glory as far as social apps go. My bet is that upcoming Apple products will continue to break previous records; the supposed acquisition of Color notwithstanding. Would you seriously bet against the next Apple product selling like hot cakes, based on this?

This isn't just about social apps. If this story is true it really doesn't reflect well on Apple's senior management. Apple will continue to print money in the immediate future, just as Microsoft did in the 00's, but buying a startup which never had a viable product, business plan or assets for an inflated valuation like this is a good sign that Apple has lost direction and focus. Social is not their core competence,…

Nothing Apple has ever done in the social context has ever reflected well on Apple's senior management. They survived Ping, they'll survive this. And it won't be a nailbiter. Wanna bet?