https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2017/4/26/apple-isnt-a-tech-company
Apple removed "computer" from their name many years back for a reason. And yet all people can obsess over here is how Apple isn't releasing any new Mac Pros.
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https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2017/4/26/apple-isnt-a-tech-company
Apple removed "computer" from their name many years back for a reason. And yet all people can obsess over here is how Apple isn't releasing any new Mac Pros.
Yep. Complete obsession with rap and hip-hop. And watch people here be called racist for saying that, even though in my case my favorite artist happens to be a black man.
Agree mate. I like all music to be honest , I just can't stand saturation of one genre or promotion of content due to connections, and based on that , Apple Music sucks in a major way for me. As they say one mans trash is another mans treasure....
What does Beats have to do with design? Apple is using Beats to try and buy street cred with a certain population. But most young people I know think Beats headphones are garbage. Would Beats even be popular if they hadn't spent millions on celebrity and athlete endorsements?
Say what you will about lens flares and the LOST finale, but JJA has been involved in some outstanding film and TV, even if just in a [Excutive] Producer capacity. Alias, Person of Interest, Westworld, MI: Ghost Protocol / Rogue Nation. He definitely has a good eye for talent if he lets them excercise creative freedom, so maybe he'll tap into some folks: Noah Hawley, Vince Gilligan, John Dahl, Phil Abraham, Sam Esmail (just to name a few amazing talents working in modern, cable TV).
I just don't like this guy (Iovine). I don't know what it is but I just don't like him at all.
Removing "computer" does not make them a design company ..... maybe a "consumer" company ? Given thier products? Like .....Sony ? Most of us here get why they dropped "computer" .....
"Kelly and a then 15-year-old singer protege Aaliyah were illegally married in a secret wedding ceremony"
"On February 3, 2002, a video surfaced allegedly showing Kelly engaging in sex with, and urinating on, an underage girl"
....This R Kelly?
"On February 3, 2002, a video surfaced allegedly showing Kelly engaging in sex with, and urinating on, an underage girl"
....This R Kelly?
Kinda get that weasel feeling right ....hides in shadows ... pulling strings .... or is that just me..?
Bingo. Airpods is Apple's battle for our ears (via Siri) and Beats gives Apple access to a market not served by Airpods and EarPods.
In the very least, this serves to remind Apple that they are not a computer company and should not operate like one.
One thing is for sure, if Apple has decided to get into content in a big way then Eddy Cue should be focusing on that and give all of Apple's cloud services to someone else. Maybe iCloud and Siri would really improve if they had their own SVP.
So another redesign to Music App for iOS 11? Hope it returns the iOS 9 player screen with edge to edge artwork and blur.
I'm sorry to say, from a revenue and future-looking standpoint, hip-hop dominates the music industry. Personally, I hate the stuff; but for millennials it is a basis of the cultural fabric. Millennials have reached adult-hood, and hip-hop is to them as classic Rock is to previous generations. It's not a fashion, it's a foundation.
Ummmm one can Argue that transition happened with the iPod ..... you Are reading way way too much into a name change that happened way late in the game....
I really don't know much about this Iovine guy, but all I know is he was having withdrawal symptoms on stage at an Apple Keynote. He looks like a junkie to me. I used to listen to rap music, and his partner Dr. Dre is one of the biggest racists ever. Just listen to all the hateful things he says in his first album.
BTW, I believe in the United States anything against black people is considered racism, but it seems to be "ok" to hate any other race. I am a foreigner myself, but instead of complaining, I just aced through school, and now I am living it up.
BTW, I believe in the United States anything against black people is considered racism, but it seems to be "ok" to hate any other race. I am a foreigner myself, but instead of complaining, I just aced through school, and now I am living it up.
They removed computer from the name purely because they no longer purely made computers in the traditional sense, branching to iPods, iPhones and iPads. That has no connection to justifying any of this rubbish. Apple SHOULD focus on its core products (which include the Mac, iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch) and anything else that they innovate, not pointless rubbish like this. Apple should be putting out stuff that they have reinvented or made significantly better innovate they can't have done that with TV shows.
I get that.... just don't like where apple is heading .... it's where the money is though.....
Since Apple Music is global, I fixed something for you.
I agree about everything else though, hate Rap and HipHop.
I like some hip-hop and rap. I can't stand a lot of it because it promotes values centering on misogyny and materialism that I saw destroy too many young men and women in my hometown. I like the energy and beat of hip-hop though, so I like rappers with positive messages like Christian rapper Lecrae. It doesn't have to be Christian based but I like stories to have hope and pride and a positive message in there somewhere. I'm sick of young people destroying themselves on all the negativity in pop culture, which Iovine is all too happy to peddle to the masses.Yep. Complete obsession with rap and hip-hop. And watch people here be called racist for saying that, even though in my case my favorite artist happens to be a black man.
I believe in forgiveness and second chances but Dre made too many comments that make me think he isn't one bit sorry for what he did and still sees himself as the put upon one for people still calling him out on it. I don't know about R Kelly because he isn't even on my radar screen since what he did, he did to a kid. I hope he has cleaned his life up for his sake but I can't bring myself to bother to find out.
Sounds like Apple Music is like the rest of Apple these days...makes a crazy profit but doesn't get the product out the door, polished and ready to go on time when the people want it. Delayed indefinitely...reminds me of Mac Pros.
In whose world? EDM/Pop Rock/however you'd describe as generic pop is the the basis of cultural fabric atm. Out of the top 10 best selling albums of last year in the US, only one is is hop hop. Adele, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Gaga, Rihanna, Coldplay etc would what I would describe to be the centre of popular music and very little of it is rap. Sure Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Kayne West might be rap/hip hop but to say they're the basis of cultural fabric is not really accurate.
I realise that Hip Hop is probably bigger in the US, but I do think that it isn't that big compared to other genres.
Profit . In which case ITS the IPHONE
Please tell me you know what apple core products are?