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And yet, for their common customer, their music is either purchased from iTunes, ripped through iTunes (to AAC) or streamed. It sucks, but people with huge FLA
by philjohn 8y ago
And yet, for their common customer, their music is either purchased from iTunes, ripped through iTunes (to AAC) or streamed.
It sucks, but people with huge FLAC libraries are the outliers, not the mainstream, and it's only sensible that Apple concentrate their resources on their largest market.
- KingMob 8y agoExcept that they created that market out of thin air. It's great for Apple to sell wireless gear, but they could have left the jack in, no problem, if it weren't a money grab.
- philjohn 8y agoThey could have, but it would have meant compromises in other areas of the internals. They are packing so much into a tiny space and decided haptic feedback was more important. There's the YouTube video of adding a headphone jack back into the phone, and it didn't look fun with the compromises made.
- smolder 8y agoAnd yet the phones are getting thicker since they removed the jack, as another poster pointed out. And the last iphones with the jack were not thick. My jack-having phone is not thick.
- jrace 8y agoBut they did not put any resources into the new product, old phones also work with wireless headphones. Instead they removed tech and touted it as "new and improved". In fact it was less-featured than the older product, nothing was improved.
- tomc1985 8y agoYou're right, because the physical media folks are accommodated by ripping software. I'm still bitter about Apple's garbage FLAC support but that's a battle that I don't think we're going to ever win...
- thirdsun 8y agoApple started supporting FLAC in recent macOS and iOS versions, but just on the OS-/file system-level. I think that indicates that a future iTunes revamp will come with FLAC support, at which point the iOS Music app will have to support it as well.
- ddingus 8y agoI have already moved a few Apple users to Samsung. Will continue.