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Car stereo does not. My home stereo does though. If I’m in the car I’m using CarPlay which has the same library sync’d to my phone so bringing the iPod along wouldn’t make a lot of sense.

I bought a refurbished last gen iPod classic year. It’s a bummer it’s hard to "use" these days. No bluetooth, none of the newer car head units work with iPods anymore. But I’m keeping it just for a nostalgia thing.

I will say, the one thing Apple got right, is the ease of buying a song, it showing up in your library, and then just syncing it to your device. It’s just a shame that you can’t buy lossless music through the itunes store.

Address is the big one for me. I just type "myadd" and my whole address shows up

Some of these sensors are weird. In my 2015 VW GTI my cell phone would set it off, but not heavier non electronics.

Pro-I only shares the sensor. The glass and zoom features in front of it are what I’m talking about.

I forgot about that!

I think there’s still too much friction. It’s another thing that you need to take with you instead of being built in.

I wish Sony would just strap a phone to a RX100 and call it day. Similar to what Samsung did with the Galaxy Zoom phones.

I don’t really get this foldable form factor. To me it seems too compromised for what you get. Unfolded you get a normal size phone, but you have to deal with the fragility (I know they’ve gotten better) of folding tech, and the thickness of 2 phones when folded.

That said, I have seen a few Z Flips in the wild. I wonder if those people are happy with their decision, and would buy one again in the future, or go back to a normal candy bar phone.

This seems like an idea generated almost exclusively for car enthusiasts.

Or the CIA…

Does AppleCORE (kind of a silly name IMO) have a charter or document explaining how their union is to be set up and function?

I’m of the belief a seasoned Apple Store employee should be able to support themselves with their job. That said, how does it work for new employees? Will they have an "apprenticeship" program where employees learn the ropes for a lower wage until they can prove they know their stuff like an electrician apprenticeship works? I ask because I walked into an Apple store and was asking about some detailed specs of a machine, and the best the sales associate could do was read the plaque next to the device. I don’t think this person and the person and someone who’s been there for years and knows every spec of a product in their sleep should make the same.

Good to know! I set up the Sonosnet. Going to give it a spin. Spotify doesn’t seem to pick up the Sonos speakers anymore, but… it looks like Spotify got updated in the Sonos app and it’s more useful now.

A product isn’t shipping until one is en route to a paying customer. Since it’s not 2023 yet, and none are en route to a customer, it’s not shipping.

It might ship, but at this point, it’s honestly pretty doubtful.

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence has previously said that the company aims to introduce at least two new products each calendar year.

To me, this is the problem with taking the company public. I’m not saying Sonos shouldn’t add products, or that their product line up is perfect and not missing anything. But now they’re under pressure to keep making stuff for the sake of making more money for the shareholders. More products, means more bugs. I can see Sonos becoming a buggy mess that just never gets fixed all the way and a lot of unhappy customers.

That said, I’m currently eyeing some of their newer products to replace my old gen 1 stuff so I can have AirPlay 2 since trying to get music from the Spotify App to my speakers is very flaky, and I can never find what I want to listen to in the Sonos app itself.

1.2 million reservations and not a single foreseeable delivery

Here to say, so far I liked Nolan’s trilogy more.

But… I did enjoy Reeve’s even if it was a little slow at some times. I dug the detective noir aspect of the film. I think they could have had the soundtrack play into a little more, I felt it needed more saxophone…

That said, Nolan’s first Batman was a bit different than the second two, they nailed the idea in 2nd.

I honestly feel that with a smaller studio, and less money, behind the film it would have been better. It felt like it wanted to be an "indie" film, but WB said no, every human needs to like this.

I was about to ask why Toyota doesn’t just buy subaru, then I did a quick Google and they do own the company, which explains all the "co-development" The cars are just so visually similar here and in the case of the GR86 I just don’t understand why they even bother making "2" cars.

The actual design of the hardware is kinda nice

That’s all I can think of… I think you’d be very hard pressed to notice the difference between 4k and 5k at this size. And many 27" 4k displays can be had for way less.

I’m still torn on E-Ink. I think it’s great, but I don’t know that it’s replaced printed materials for me. I bought the latest Kindle Paperwhite with the warm backlighting as soon as it came out since the cool backlighting had me returning the one I bought a couple years ago. I don’t know, It’s just not the same as reading a book to me.

I want to like it, I’d love to think it could replace my book shelf, but it just doesn’t do it for me.

Now, if you could give me a phone that lasted weeks at a time with an e-ink screen, even with a slower refresh rate, I think I’d take it. You could still have access to apps and information, but the time sucking ones like Instagram, facebook, twitter, youtube, anything that scrolls or plays videos would be miserable to use, which for me, would be great. I thought the one phone that had the e-ink on the back was super cool.

Don’t forget, "misinformation" is usually 6 months away from being the truth…

The grunt towers were pretty funny. Lol.

But yeah, I almost feel like it was a detriment to the game in a way. In the other Halos you went all over the universe, in Infinite we’re stuck on a little part of one ring.

This is going to be interesting. I don’t think someone like Facebook would be able to. I imagine they use "machine learning" to have the algorithm produce the most interaction. I think I remember watching something where the outputs of this basically don’t make sense to humans.

I wonder how the EU will deal with something like that.

I mean 343 is halo is Microsoft. It’s all the same thing now.

Having grown up playing the Bungie Halo games it sucks what 343/Microsoft did the franchise. They took something beloved by its diehard fans and have release after release tried to mold it into something different chasing the main stream (broader audience) while upsetting the core fan base.

I’ll take the Bungie games 1, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach over the newer games all day. The stories were just so much more compelling and better written. The art style was so much better. Everything was better about the Bungie games.

And now with the game that’s supposed to save the franchise 343 just continues to disappoint.

I honestly don’t think it’s a problem unique to Halo though. All the Bungie stuff games were made during a time where you had to get the game mostly as right as it was ever going to be before it went out the door to the customer. Now studios seem to just run on shipping a minimum viable product and "fixing" it after release.