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Post by Tinyyy »

baldfat wrote: post #317
Tinyyy wrote: post #303

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It's kinda disingenuous to make wild speculations like that.

That isn't wild speculations. All Non-Apple Lighting Cables require a official chip from Apple. So Tim Cook might say that DRM is wild speculation it is actually happening now with all their cables. So in order to buy a adapter I MUST buy a cable with a chip from Apple that makes it authorized. EDIT : I guess EFF are wild speculators? "To its credit, Apple has been adamant it won’t use the new design to restrict your…

Yea, I do think that they are wild speculators. Just because I believe in some of their causes doesn't mean they can do no wrong. I think that they tend to go to more of an extreme than I'm comfortable with. But I think it's understandable because when they fight for freedom and what have you, they face opposition from people and businesses that shapes their opinion of them. This means that they become more partisan and fight against these 'rivals' instead - which is not wrong - but it's too political for me.

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Post by neotek »

jjawssd wrote: post #294
neotek wrote: post #291

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What DRM wireless headphones?

No more analog-only headphones on the new iPhone. DRM capable digital to analog adapters coming in 3...2...1...

Apple is the company that forced every major label that wanted to have its music on iTunes to abandon DRM, what possible motivation would they have for wanting to bring it back?

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Post by e7c6ht6iad »

jonathankoren wrote: post #333
sirn wrote: post #119

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As someone who got to use a PowerBook G4 (running 10.5.8) from time to time (in fact, I'm typing this very comment on it), I fail to see how their current UI is any more undiscoverable than the UI from 7 years ago. The trash icon was there in the Dock in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. The search function in help was there in 10.5, and still there in 10.11. To remove things from the Dock, right click the icon and the…

> As someone who got to use a PowerBook G4 (running 10.5.8) from time to time (in fact, I'm typing this very comment on it), I fail to see how their current UI is any more undiscoverable than the UI from 7 years ago. Problem: You plug in an external monitor and for some reason it doesn't immediately display an images. What do you do? In pre-el-Capitan, you open up the display settings pane and press the button marked…

The old way doesn't seem discoverable to me either. The only thing that I would find discoverable is typing "display" "monitor" "screen" into spotlight.

Maybe this is just a personal quirk, but it makes me hate how spotlight will frequently show web or file text results instead of whatever it is I'm looking for.

The best thing Apple could do for my user experience is have all of their employees spend a day tagging UI elements with every relevant search string they can think of.

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Post by nathan_long »

SCdF wrote: post #226

OK, so I use OSX, and I want to play mp3s that I have locally, and see them in a library format that I can search. Even maybe have album art, though I'm not fussed. Ignoring itunes, how do I do it? What is a good fast low memory music playing app with library management? If I was on Windows I'd be using Foobar2k. On OSX it seems to be either itunes, a command line app, or various bloated messes that aren't honestly b…

For just playing mp3s, I like https://cmus.github.io/

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Post by pfranz »

masklinn wrote: post #143
pfranz wrote: post #66

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The lack of async and modal dialogs drive me nuts with iTunes. My main gripe is syncing my ipod or phone interrupts music playback--they should be completely separate things. Ideally separate applications.

> My main gripe is syncing my ipod or phone interrupts music playback It doesn't though. I just tried. Start playback, plug phone (keeps playing), sync (itunes still playing), disconnect, itunes has never stopped playing.

Thanks for the correction.

I've honestly stopped using iTunes for the most part after 10+ years of problems like that. It's weird, but I'll listen to music on my phone while using my computer. I also sync phones/ipods a lot less often since so much has moved to the cloud. It may not interrupt playback, but I swear I still see modal dialogs when syncing.

I still think they should be completely separate applications.

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Post by spronkey »

Grishnakh wrote: post #354
spronkey wrote: post #242

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Please. Don't try to defend Photos.app, it's an abysmal piece of junk. It breaks UI metaphors. Saving its library to your pictures directory? Sure. But it's a royal pain if I don't want to store those pictures on a Mac. Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right? I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropp…

>Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right? >I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropped the ball so badly, and how on earth have they not been steamrolled by Microsoft. Because there's legions of gullible suckers who'll line up to buy the latest iDevice and then believe everything Apple tells them, whe…

I always hear this, but then I look at all the people I know who are less technically able, who struggle daily with Apple's stupid ecosystem. Oh, I filled up the 16GB iPad with Photos, how do I make more space?

It's getting harder and harder to answer the questions they ask.

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Post by nicky0 »

slig wrote: post #277
nicky0 wrote: post #229

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And even better, with iOS 10 we can now delete the Music and iTunes apps from our phones.

Unfortunately that's not what happens. You can removed it from the Home screen [1], the app keeps using space on your phone. [1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204221

Ah, that's interesting. Well, as long as it's not on my screen I'm happy enough. :)

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Post by Grishnakh »

spronkey wrote: post #376
Grishnakh wrote: post #354

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>Which wouldn't be such an issue if Apple let you upgrade the storage. But no, you can't do that. So buy iCloud and shut the hell up, right? >I find myself wondering daily, how the hell have Apple dropped the ball so badly, and how on earth have they not been steamrolled by Microsoft. Because there's legions of gullible suckers who'll line up to buy the latest iDevice and then believe everything Apple tells them, whe…

I always hear this, but then I look at all the people I know who are less technically able, who struggle daily with Apple's stupid ecosystem. Oh, I filled up the 16GB iPad with Photos, how do I make more space? It's getting harder and harder to answer the questions they ask.

Are you saying they come to you with these questions? What do you tell them?

I know what I'd tell them: "Easy, transfer your old photos onto your computer to free up some space." Now if they ask how to do that, I'll tell them "I don't know, I don't use Apple devices. Try asking Siri." Unless maybe it's some hot girl I'm trying to bed, then I'll work a little harder, but I'll still try to convince her to dump Apple and switch to Android so I don't have to deal with this stuff in the future.

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Post by the_other »

Bartweiss wrote: post #316
the_other wrote: post #264

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Sure, people can have as many screens as they can manage. I still think it's reasonable to assume that if you know how to configure a system to spread your desktop over three screens and to hide the widget that gives you the feedback/discoverability then you can use the skills that got you there to get you out of your predicament. If your argument is that the dock is the wrong place for that feedback because it can b…

I would argue that OS X still has bad multi-screen support because I shouldn't have to hunt for where dialog boxes and status updates have been placed. Yes, I'm capable of doing so, but that doesn't mean I want to. Broadly, I object to the inconsistency and high astonishment factor more than any specific choice. For example: - If a program has dialog boxes open (e.g. a 'find' box), they maintain relative position as…

Wow. So many. I didn't know most of those due to using my machine a different way. I agree with your overall point that multi-screen use needs work.
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