Frankly both sides seem immensely dodgy in their approach - manipulative language, half-truths, blame-shifting
Am very curious whether Spotify in Europe will actually become 30% cheaper to the end user if this goes ahead (or, if Apple's response is to be believed: 45% cheaper after the first year) as their careful "we're doing this for you" messaging says, or it just ends up being a cash grab
I'd equate it more to the difference between spending an extra $100 on a solid pair of boots which last 4x longer (cheaper over time) - we're not talking diamond-encrusted phones here
(That said, Apple are doing a great job of losing this value prop)
When I've bought Macs they've often been an older model - luxury-pricing-wise that's nothing next to an Alienware or Surface
spot on. also there's likely to be some phase issues in some mixes
aside: seems to be a smooth enough lerp between bits so as not to destroy speakers, but might cause a record needle to jump (can anyone more versed weigh in here?)
could be a well-meaning tech culture screw up; Most tech people know that airplane autopilots weren't end-to-end automated for the majority of their existence
may be complete coincidence, but about 8-9hrs ago my friend's iphone started acting up; emails vanishing while they were reading them, sub-routes in apps silently failing back to main screen...
even if this is unrelated - disconcerting to hear that the unit's usability is so closely tied to online services
Is it not possible there's just a security violation they need to sort out?
Am unfamiliar with Puffin, but the post leaping straight to "it's a conspiracy!" without indicating what the stated rationale for rejection was appears a bit off.
(I'd I'm normally first in line to attribute things to corporate greed)
Recommend you look at this history of emerging technologies announced at SIGGRAPH.
Tends not to be a linear progression at all; if the attention of more than a couple researchers is applied to any of these things then they grow very quickly - couple this with improvements in parallel processing power and it becomes quite viable.
(see: physically based lighting, rigid body -> full crumple simulation, fluid dynamics, Photoshop's "smart fill", or really any game tech)
Apropos of nothing: Same applies in terms of hardware - what we can do with light field cameras now was science fiction just over a decade ago, but within a couple years of crossing a research tipping point we went from 10x10' camera arrays to <$100 hand-held commercial products.
source: graphics tech and SIGGRAPH nerd for the last 23 years
actually there was an extremely slow build up of this tech, with a sudden and rapid escalation - but between 1908 and 2010 was a very shallow incline :)
Obviously this topic needs to be treated with extreme care, as assuming innocence would be just as damaging as assuming guilt.
Though it is rather interesting that Appelbaum would receive such similar accusations as Assange - especially given his history of gender advocacy and related activism.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotifys-c...
Frankly both sides seem immensely dodgy in their approach - manipulative language, half-truths, blame-shifting
Am very curious whether Spotify in Europe will actually become 30% cheaper to the end user if this goes ahead (or, if Apple's response is to be believed: 45% cheaper after the first year) as their careful "we're doing this for you" messaging says, or it just ends up being a cash grab