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Doesn’t it probably list Apple as a source because Apple is the only major company in the biz that regularly releases its sales numbers?

about 22 hours ago on Samsung CEO claims Galaxy S4 will hit 10 million sales in under a month 1 reply 6 recommends

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Sorry, threw in an extra i.

1 day ago on New Google Music app breaks compatibility with ill-fated Nexus Q media streamer 1 reply

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If only shipments, sales, revenues, and profits were the same thing…

1 day ago on 90 Seconds on The Verge: Google Glass, Windows Phone, and an asteroid fly-by

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They refreshed the iPad 3 because they wanted to release an entire batch of current products with the new connector to create continuity moving forward. Sure you can get an iPad 2 or iPhone 4 with the old connector, but those are the discount products.

They have been known to drop the prices of products within a year of release. Or are you calling the iPhone a flop as well?

The 15" model is designed to appeal to a certain clientele, much the same as iMac Pro. The Air is the entry-level laptop, the one designed to appeal to the widest group.

Just because a product does’t instantly sell a billion units doesn’t make it a flop. Do try and think about what you’re saying before you go trolling, won’t you?

1 day ago on New Google Music app breaks compatibility with ill-fated Nexus Q media streamer 2 replies

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No, it’s the transplant being rejected by the host, not the host being rejected by the transplant.

1 day ago on New Google Music app breaks compatibility with ill-fated Nexus Q media streamer

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As happy as I wish I was with the Obama administration, the ongoing behavior of his Treasury and Justice departments is quite loathsome. I’m tired of reading strikes like this.

4 days ago on Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls 2 replies 5 recommends

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Any man who is smart enough to talk himself into marrying three women, cheating on or abandoning the first two, and then prattling on about the sanctity of marriage certainly has a type of smarts I could never even hope to have.

5 days ago on Newt Gingrich is 'really puzzled' by cellphones that take pictures and needs your help 6 recommends

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Ah, so in order to be a good movie adaptation of a book, the movie must follow the book without fail? Order of the Phoenix was my favorite movie in the series, yet look at how much was left out of it from the book. They don’t have to mirror each other to be good.

8 days ago on Panic in space: Alfonso Cuaron returns with terrifying 'Gravity' teaser

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Prisoner of Azkaban was one of the best Harry Potter movies as well.

8 days ago on Panic in space: Alfonso Cuaron returns with terrifying 'Gravity' teaser 3 replies 6 recommends

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I just wish more of the nice apps had different device support. I like uniformity of appearance and function between my devices, but so many of them are just for iPhone or iPad.

9 days ago on Show us the best designed iOS apps you use

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Does it sync with other devices?

9 days ago on Show us the best designed iOS apps you use

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If the key issue was “someone getting paid,” would you be ok with paying for a Megaupload account or whatever file storage service Kim Dotcom comes up with, and then downloading whatever music you found on it? Someone getting paid, or not really getting paid much in the case of Spotify, isn’t what it’s about. It should be about supporting the artist, purchasing the music in the fashion that allows the best return for their work, in order to help them continue to make said work.

10 days ago on Spotify's nightmare realized: Chrome extension allows MP3 download of any song

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The guy’s got good taste in clients, music, and photographers of musicians. Dig it.

10 days ago on The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple 1 recommend

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I confess, I don’t see much of a distinction when it comes to rewarding the artists. On Spotify and Rdio, they’re getting paid fractions of a penny per play. Unless you’re one of the really big ones, most artists don’t seem to be making too much money from the streaming services. It seems like people prefer to just comfort themselves that they’re paying for the music. It makes them feel good, even if the actual amount of money seems to be almost negligible. I totally understand the portability of the service, especially if you are in situations where you have access to high speed internet service regularly, but the bank for studio music is in album sales, not streaming.

10 days ago on Spotify's nightmare realized: Chrome extension allows MP3 download of any song 1 reply

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I didn’t think The Dark Knight Rises was quite as good as The Dark Knight, but for me it was very, very close. I left the theater extremely happy with the series as a whole. Toy Story is probably my least favorite series at Pixar, but I’d say that number three was as good or better than either of the previous two movies.

12 days ago on ‘Iron Man 3’ review: Robert Downey Jr. becomes the latest lethal weapon

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It was based on a comic written by Warren Ellis. If you think what Warren Ellis, or most any comic these days, is made for kids…

14 days ago on ‘Iron Man 3’ review: Robert Downey Jr. becomes the latest lethal weapon

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I thought it suffered from a lot of the same problems as X-Men 3, albeit not on the same level. Both franchises lost a director that brought a very special energy to the movies, only to be replaced by a much more generic action director. Both movies got too wrapped up in the superhero-ness of their stories, rather than treating the superheroics as a natural part of the stories, tried to compensate by making a “deeper” emotional core, and ended up fumbling on both fronts. And I was pretty disappointed with whiney Tony, what happened to Pepper Pots at the end, and the way the Mandarin was handled. All of the twists felt like they’d be right at home in an ‘80s Lethal Weapon movie, which is obviously no big surprise. Even if the first two had flaws, they were fun and had an energy that was contagious. Tony Stark is at his best when he enjoys what he’s doing.

14 days ago on ‘Iron Man 3’ review: Robert Downey Jr. becomes the latest lethal weapon 1 reply

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Did you really just quote something that starts its URL with “urban legends” and its analysis with “Analysis: Regardless whether one feels charity CEOs are overpaid or underpaid, such judgments ought at least to be based on real facts and figures, not outdated and fictitious declarations such as the ones above”? Good god, could you at least try to hide the fact that you’re trying to bullshit people here?

15 days ago on UNICEF says Facebook 'likes' won't save children's lives 3 recommends

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I’ve tried listening to the same album using decent Sennheiser headphones as 256 kb ripped files, 256 mixed for iTunes AAC files, and lossless files from the CD. I did my best to listen for any changes in instrument clarity, the tone of the music, artificial tinnyness, anything. I couldn’t hear a single difference. What level of audio equipment do you use to register the differences, and what sort of differences manifest? Not trying to pick your point apart, this is something I’ve been curious about for a while now.

20 days ago on iTunes Store at 10: how Apple built a digital media juggernaut 1 recommend

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Torrenting it and fucking over artists isn’t something to brag about…

20 days ago on iTunes Store at 10: how Apple built a digital media juggernaut

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I think I like you. My first iPod was the 30 gig 1st gen video iPod that I used to watch my first purchase: the Vertigo music video. I soon followed up with the U2 video iPod, which is the one piece of tech I’ll never get rid of. Love that thing, and still love U2 to this day.

20 days ago on What was your first iPod? First song you bought on iTunes?

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If it doesn’t sync, who cares?

23 days ago on Twitter for Mac updated with Retina display support and quick photo uploads

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I work for a department almost exclusively funded by the federal government. Two things: budgets are quite tight. They provide enough for us to give clients satisfactory service, but any worse and we’d be in danger of violating laws. We’re certainly not rolling in cash. Secondly, the federal government has to provide for its employees, and do a good job of it. Know why? ’Cause serving the public at large SUCKS. Turnover is incredibly high because serving people who think they should have to pay minimal taxes yet get superior service sucks balls in the bad way. All the people who whine about the services they get from the government take just as much of those services as everyone else, if not more, and are whiney as fuck about it.

23 days ago on Artless: budget cuts force Smithsonian to close exhibits at random

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Ah, but that would require signing up with Sprint, a mobile provider I loathe as much as AT&T, if not more. They truly have the scummiest billing practices in the industry and I will never use them again.

24 days ago on Apple prepares for iTunes' tenth anniversary with timeline of how it changed music industry

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Oh, I have tried it. I still like the idea of having the music even if I don’t want to continue to subscribe. And streaming it certainly isn’t more beneficial to the artist. What bitrate is Spotify streaming at?

24 days ago on Apple prepares for iTunes' tenth anniversary with timeline of how it changed music industry 1 reply

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So just to make sure I understand: you can’t stream the music unless you have a connection, unless you use cell data which is used up far too easily these days, or unless you save it for offline use which takes up memory on your phone just as a music file from iTunes would. And you get to pay to rent rather than own the music? How sure how that situation could be better! And you get the added incentive that every time you listen, the artists get a fraction of a thousandth of a cent. Sweet!

24 days ago on Apple prepares for iTunes' tenth anniversary with timeline of how it changed music industry 2 replies

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Not really. A lot of those don’t fit the standard political science definition of anarchy, which is the definition I assumed we were working with since the Chaplin quote referred to government. When they start talking about communist anarchy, federation in anarchy, and so on, that goes against the very definition of anarchy. It’s like people who say that the USSR was a communist state. It may have gotten started that way in theory, but it spent most of its existence as a dictatorship. Just because people say they are operating under a certain structure doesn’t mean they actually are.

27 days ago on WikiLeaks publishes five-hour conversation between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange 1 reply

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They’re both far-along progressions of right-wing ideology, although anarchy is obviously further along than libertarianism. They are both on the same path, though.

27 days ago on WikiLeaks publishes five-hour conversation between Eric Schmidt and Julian Assange 1 reply