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Tim Cook worries that humanity is “being drained out of music”
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| 8/8/2018
| BY MARK SULLIVAN
Posted on 08/08/2018 9:29:00 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Okie, The U2 album was not "pushed down" to Apple user's devices, nor was it "undeteable," as you mischaracterize it. It was made available to Apple users IF THEY WANTED IT for free as a GIFT from Apple and U2 in the iTunes Store. Nice Try at making a FREE OFFER sound like an invasion of people's devices with a lie.
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posted on
08/08/2018 12:44:04 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; AbolishCSEU; Abundy; Action-America; ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook says he worries about Music choices losing the human touch when algorithms are being used to select music for listening. That's why Apple uses human curators for Apple's streaming services.PING!
Apple Music Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
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posted on
08/08/2018 12:48:15 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: moovova
Tim...you could help by making iTunes free. iTunes is free. . . are you referring to the subscription service?
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posted on
08/08/2018 12:50:48 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
All I can say is it was
Pushed down to my 6S and I couldn't delete it. I'm sure you remember there was some
controversy at the time.
Additionally, I seem to remember they published some kind of fix so it could be removed from iTunes.
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posted on
08/08/2018 12:58:12 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Rap and for-money-only over-produced fake music drained the humanity decades ago.
The vitality, creativity and exuberance that was present from the late 50s to early 70s was incredible. Just listen to the Top 10 from each year and you’ll find so much variation and different styles. Not so true today.
To: reg45
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:16:53 PM PDT
by
To-Whose-Benefit?
(It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I don’t go past the 80’s stations.
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:17:49 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: Fresh Wind
In Sacramento in the 60s and 70s, there was a junk shop on Folsom Boulevard, close to 35th Street near Alhambra, that sold old albums and 78s,, one record for a dollar, half a record for 50¢. Yup a broken half record for 50¢. He had piles of them. . .
He was quite looney... I asked him what someone would want a half record for and he said if they could find both halves they could glue them back together, , ,
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:37:04 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
To: Swordmaker
I thought you had to pay for music that you buy. Like $1.99 or so. I’m on an Android.
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:44:33 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: CtBigPat
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:44:34 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: the OlLine Rebel
You’re not supposed to drive or do much of anything the whole day. Also, it costs more.
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:46:48 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Fill in my standard rant.)
To: Psalm 73
Joni Mitchell on the turntable for crying-out-loud. Going round and round like a circle game. I wonder how ole Joni is doing lately.
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posted on
08/08/2018 1:51:58 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
"I wonder how ole Joni is doing lately."
Not well at all - saw a pic of her last year - sad.
I prefer to remember her vinyl days....she had such a great jazz voice, too.
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posted on
08/08/2018 2:23:54 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I think MTV killed the music. Once silly visuals took over, they obscured poor vocals & everything else.
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posted on
08/08/2018 3:10:22 PM PDT
by
MoochPooch
(I'm a compassionate cynic.)
To: txrefugee
And what, pray tell, does Tim Cook know about humanity? Knows quite a lot about draining the meat flute, to be sure.
To: KC_Lion
Worst piece of software EVER. I still refuse to believe Apple wrote it.
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posted on
08/08/2018 3:21:44 PM PDT
by
avenir
("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
To: ClearCase_guy
Heartily agree.
I remember back in the 70s and seeing rack after rack of albums. The sheer number of a available artists was staggering. Then each artist had multiple albums. This was selections of music.
Isot a music store today and the number of artists is a fraction of what there was 30 years ago. And all the music is the same. Or its rap and the talent required to produce rap is minimal. Gone are the audiophile quality recordings.
I blame the music industry.
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posted on
08/08/2018 3:26:54 PM PDT
by
Hodar
(A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
To: PGR88; Swordmaker
Im guessing it contains subliminal messages Apple wants me to hear!
**********************************************
I ran some subliminal message detection software and found the message that played repeatedly ...
...It said Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions, Trust Sessions...
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posted on
08/08/2018 7:01:34 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: Swordmaker
I think he’s wrong — I’d rather be able to put my car radio on shuffle play, rather than listen to the same old-assed tired-ass human-compiled canned playlist the area stations seem to use.
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posted on
08/08/2018 11:50:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Swordmaker
Ha! That reminds me of a record dealer I used to know, may he RIP. One particularly obnoxious customer was trying to argue the price down on a dollar record; he only wanted to pay half that. My friend finally had enough. He snapped the record in half and handed the pieces back to the customer and said “now it’s 50 cents”.
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posted on
08/09/2018 2:31:32 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 trillion dollars.)
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