A someone who lives outside the Apple bubble...how Apple users listen to music now? Spotify? What if you have a local library?
The Music app handles local libraries just fine.
What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> given that he is one of the most studied critical theorists in philosophy and literature Found your problem.
I'll bite: what problem is that?
Critical theorists aren't worth studying. They have no consistent norms of evaluating the quality of their work and their primary purpose is to advance literary explorations over calibration to any particular truth of the matter.
So saying a critical theorist is well-studied by other critical theorists says very little about the value of their positions to non-literary fields. There may have been a fact of the matter as to whether Walter Benjamin really was an inspiration for post-modernism or if he's merely confined to modernism, but I think a true critical theorist would leave that up to debate.
Re: What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
#73... iTunes became a bucket of too many features, so apple split it up into multiple applications. Apple music is pretty much exactly the same as iTunes was without a bunch of non-music related features. It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just changed names.
> It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just changed names.
I don’t agree at all. While iTunes was feature rich and relatively stable, the replacements are relatively feature poor and quite unstable. Apple should’ve taken another year to introduce the replacements.
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#75I am confused... I still sync my phone to my iTunes on my computer. There is no other way to add music that I get from outside of Apple. Also, I use it to have a full backup of my phone. I have hundreds of gigs of photos and videos I don't want to lose, and you can only backup everything if you use your computer.
iCloud seems to do a fine job backing up photos and videos. When I get a new iPhone, I don't even take a manual backup -- I just login to iCloud and wait for everything to sync. iCloud restore populates all my apps, settings, photos, videos, etc. Apart from having to setup FaceID and re-enter passwords, it's like nothing changed.
> Apart from having to setup FaceID and re-enter passwords, it's like nothing changed.
...except for waiting (several) hours re-downloading things and blasting out the data limits on one’s broadband plan. A local sync with a computer has been much faster for me all the time when setting up a new phone.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll bite: what problem is that?
Critical theorists aren't worth studying. They have no consistent norms of evaluating the quality of their work and their primary purpose is to advance literary explorations over calibration to any particular truth of the matter. So saying a critical theorist is well-studied by other critical theorists says very little about the value of their positions to non-literary fields. There may have been a fact of the matter…
The description of someone who learnt about critical theorists from YouTube videos (and I use the term "learnt" loosely).
Re: What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
#77... iTunes became a bucket of too many features, so apple split it up into multiple applications. Apple music is pretty much exactly the same as iTunes was without a bunch of non-music related features. It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just changed names.
> It's silly to say ~"iTunes died" it just changed names. I don’t agree at all. While iTunes was feature rich and relatively stable, the replacements are relatively feature poor and quite unstable. Apple should’ve taken another year to introduce the replacements.
It could have been much, much worse. They could have ported over the iOS Music app.
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#78> Most iPhone users, instead of tapping on a favorite app, now just search for it from the top bar. Funny how "intuitive" interfaces must regress to ideas that must be over half a century old by now just to work properly.
When the most recent ipad refresh came out I bought one after not having used an ios device since I had an ipod touch years and years ago. Coming from Android I was and still am kind of stunned that there is no way to just see an alphabetical list of all the apps on my device. I finally figured out the gesture to bring up the search but it is still not as good as just have a a list.
Ios is a strange combination of amazing yet missing basic features. The work arounds to get a file system were infuriating and then they added one but directories were tied to apps so I ended up with directories full of files not for that specific app. Finally now they introduced a normal file system.
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Uses same 1gig of ram and misses some key features like proper track search. Go figure how it’s an improvement...
>proper track search Please explain. What is is missing? I find that it works pretty well. Is was one of its main selling point at the time and its interface spread throughout the OS: Finder, Spotlight, System Preferences, etc
New search field now return album covers (yuck). Old list search feature is now under View > Show Filter Field. Disappears after app restarts...
Re: What the death of iTunes says about digital habits
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment is wonderfully muddled, since Benjamin was not an original inspiration for so-called postmodernist thinkers at all. Benjamin (and his intellectual companions, Adorno, Marcuse and others) were very much modernists, right before the heyday of the French "postmodernists". One has to wonder how 'opaque' Benjamin is, given that he is one of the most studied critical theorists in philosophy and literature. He…
> given that he is one of the most studied critical theorists in philosophy and literature Found your problem.
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