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>YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS - I DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A TAX TO APPLE TO LISTEN TO MY MUSIC. (Ignoring the all caps) That's not really apple bad as
by Loughla 3y ago
>YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW HOW YOUR PHONE WORKS - I DO NOT HAVE TO PAY A TAX TO APPLE TO LISTEN TO MY MUSIC.
(Ignoring the all caps) That's not really apple bad as an argument. It's the fact that you're paying more for music you probably already own, and you have zero idea how that phone actually works.
Tinkering with technology, whatever the reason, should be encouraged?
- echelon_musk 3y agoYou can use music you ripped yourself and transfer it to your iDevice. I don't understand the argument. I don't know every detail of how my motorcycle works, but I use it frequently and rely on it to get from A to B. If I had to understand how everything worked in my life before I could use it I would die. How does my gut convert nutrients in my food?!
- skydhash 3y agoSomething like Doppler is very nice. I use it on both my Mac and iPhone to play local files. The rare times I use the latter, the few albums I have on it are enough. I have apple Music, for convenience when I can’t bother to download an album.
- micromacrofoot 3y agoI don’t really know how my circulatory system works either but i’ll be ok
- zogrodea 3y agoI don’t like Apple for different reasons, but that capitalised quote seems particularly egregious given what is said elsewhere in the article. “Although Android is Free Software, meaning I can modify the code, it would probably take me months to learn enough about music decoding and the Android-media-player-service to write a fix.” Like, mate. You also have no idea how your phone works despite being fully capable of finding out and even having a motive to do so. (That’s what I would say to the author.)
- jrmg 3y agoI wonder if they consider using their closed-source CD player as ‘paying a tax to Bush’.