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by w4 11y ago
I'm not so sure. I think it'd largely have to do with developers' and consumers' reactions. If Android was suddenly ground zero for innovative, high quality apps, due to Apple alienating developers, I don't think Go
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by w4 11y ago
For everyone suggesting that artists are simply being greedy or unreasonable in expecting Apple to pay them during the trial period, I'd encourage you to consider the hypothetical I posted in the last thread about Apple Music's 3
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by w4 11y ago
It's also very possible that Swift doesn't have control over where the other albums appear, since they're from old deals she made before she had much leverage. Most likely, it's a combination of all three possible explan
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by w4 11y ago
It's pretty likely she was able to negotiate control over her rights that most artists don't have, since she's one of the few remaining artists that actually sells records: http://www.npr.org/sections/the
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by w4 11y ago
> I'm sorry, but if you can't survive, as a band, for 3 months by playing live gigs or temporarily getting a different job, then maybe....it was never meant to be? I specifically mentioned that as an option - hence why this i
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by w4 11y ago
> You could equally well say - "why should artists expect to user Apple's IP to market their music for free?" Except that they don't. Apple takes a cut of each payment just like it does on the App Store. "Artists
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by w4 11y ago
As I mentioned in the other thread re: Beggar's Group, the 3 months free streaming is likely to represent a significant financial hardship to indie labels. Since everyone with an iTunes account gets free Apple Music for 3 months, you c
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by w4 11y ago
> The real question is - why is beggar's banquet afraid of giving their listeners a 3 month free trial? Why do you consider it reasonable for Apple to use artists' IP, free, in order to acquire users for Apple's paid servi
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by w4 11y ago
As of January you can even go down to 3% for a conventional mortgage: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fannie-freddie-loans-2...
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by w4 11y ago
> But what if the security blows up? Investors could demand their collateral back, forcing renters out of their homes, even if they never missed a payment. "We could well end up in that situation where you get a lot of people gettin
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by w4 11y ago
> Then, at least in SF, it started being almost entirely about gay sexual fantasies. Friends in my circle started using it less, so it got less interesting to me. Eventually I stopped using it when nobody I knew was posting. This hap
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by w4 11y ago
Bingo. This is what these discussions so often miss: open office floorpans translate to immediate savings on the company's balance sheets. They permit companies to stuff more workers into fewer square feet, and those square feet are ho
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by w4 12y ago
This was my immediate reaction as well. I'm quite sure that their primary motivation (service fees aside) is avoiding the litigation minefield created by permitting people to hack their cars and potentially make them unsafe.
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by w4 12y ago
It's not market share - it's revenue, demographics, usage patterns, and time to market that encourage iOS first over Android. While it is true that Android crushes iOS on global market share, the other factors are reversed in iOS&
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by w4 12y ago
No Max/MSP?! https://cycling74.com/products/max/
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by w4 12y ago
> VSTi's like sylenth and Massive are direct descendants of the DX7 and take FM modulation to incredible levels Not to be that guy, but neither of those are FM synthesizers. Sylenth is a basic subtractive synthesizer, and Massive is
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by w4 12y ago
Same thing basically happened to me - I just bought a new rMBP in lieu of throwing good money after bad on a logic board repair. Literally, I'm days out of the return period. Thankfully I still have the bricked 2011 MBP, so I'll
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by w4 12y ago
Someone has since registered it, so it looks like someone took you up on that offer.
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by w4 12y ago
Or provide more than 1 GB of RAM for what is, effectively, a full blown computing device.
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by w4 12y ago
>I was about to question everything until I read this. Thanks AE. My understanding of MBC is more like a crossover (or mix of low, bandpass, and highpass filters) network followed by compression per band within each section of the freque
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by w4 12y ago
> Who knows when The Eye will glare your way? It never will - Franken loses his chairmanship of the committee come January when the Republicans take power, which only serves to highlight that this "investigation" is merely him
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by w4 12y ago
This was my reaction as well. Yes, Uber's behavior here is reprehensible. But it's also kid stuff compared to what other entities (including the Federal Government itself, whose behavior we never agreed to in a TOS agreement) are
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by w4 12y ago
So, I'm a bit confused: it looks like Time4Popcorn (a Popcorn Time fork) has rebranded as Popcorn Time based on the Facebook link on the bottom of the page, and used the original Popcorn Time's website (at popcorntime.io). Despite
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by w4 12y ago
> I could see some applications for bay usage, I would be pretty scared in the open ocean. I had exactly the same reaction: how sea-worthy is this going to be in something bigger than small chop? I'm not sure I'd trust the desi
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by w4 12y ago
>You're of course referring to the current bogus CPI, which was put into effect in the 1990s to hide the real rate of inflation. Let's just assume this is true. CPI, as currently measured, has been in place since ~1996. One can
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by w4 12y ago
And yet inflation has barely cracked 3% since the proverbial printing presses started up, and has bounced around at <2% for the past few years. Hence the cause for concern: we pulled an unprecedented amount of currency out of thin air, a
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by w4 12y ago
This, aside from the wage concerns mentioned elsewhere in the comments, is the huge problem with deflation. Anyone with debt (got a mortgage or student loans? This is you we're talking about then) gets a huge kick in the balls, which i
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by w4 12y ago
> Paid version of "Nathan" You mean "Ethan": http://www.textethan.com/
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by w4 12y ago
So you watched the Ethan app go viral yesterday too, huh? For those that missed it: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/ethan and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8434045
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by w4 12y ago
It's made by Sandwich Video (who do great work): http://sandwichvideo.com/ Notice the same guy in nearly every video.

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