And since Windows 10s is aimed at education where Chromebooks shine that's why Chrome will never be a Windows Store app.
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Apple to Start Offering iTunes on the Windows Store
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It would be nice, but I don't see it happening. iMessage is one of the lock-in services to the Apple ecosystem. Someone here once said "nobody wants to be the green bubble in a blue conversation" which is true. Ideally Apple would provide an SDK to allow other chat apps to work with iMessage. An alternative would be for Apple to develop cross-platform apps that will run iMessage on Android and Windows devices but then you are at the mercy of one company to keep everything updated.
Let’s not forget Linux!
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Let’s not forget Linux!
I agree. Well, except for Windows. I’d switch to Linux.
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A group of Microsoft employees felt a disturbance in the force.
I wasn't talking about this website, I was talking about all the things that Apple is doing as a company. Profits and revenues are up but whats exciting..seriously..
I never understood why people would stick with an iPhone just for iMessage or FaceTime? In a world where at least 75% of the people have another brand of phone, you're forced to use WhatsApp or FB or whatever nonsense the message app du jour is.
It doesn't look like iTunes installs Quicktime but it does install other bloat in Startup and Services. Here are the iTunes bloat I spotted but there may be others.
Bonjour Service
iPodService Module
iTunesHelper
Apple Mobile Device Service
Agreed. I never could understand why apple, the company that throws it in everyone's face how awesome their software is, wrote such a horrendous program for windows. It simply blows. I won't even allow it on any of our computers at home even though we have apple stuff.
Not on Windows 10s, everything has to go through the Microsoft app store.
I'd love to use Spotify if it could hold my iTunes library. Sick of iTunes too. It turned into a ****show after version 8.
The OS may be awesome, but not the hardware.The Mac hardware from the last 4 years can’t be upgraded, repaired, or expanded. When you can’t upgrade the storage or RAM, that’s planned obsolescence. When you only have USB-C, you’re stuck using a bunch of adapters. In my book, today’s Macs are certainly not awesome. That’s why I’m considering Linux for my next OS - either Debian or Ubuntu.
Do you think they wouldn't introduce iMessage for iCloud.com for the same reasons? Cause that seems like an easy fix to me.
I can appreciate every single scenario you mentioned, save potentially one. Microsoft has released Visual Studio for MacOS that leverages Ximian to build cross-platform apps!
I think people are missing the obvious here.
Apple is revamping iTunes.
If it can just be an app on the windows store then it will be fine tuned and much smaller for MacOS.
Apple is revamping iTunes.
If it can just be an app on the windows store then it will be fine tuned and much smaller for MacOS.
I've yet to see a review that compared Spotify's suggestions against everyone else and found anyone but Spotify was on top.
Apple Music's suggestions are like the radio. A DJ was paid to tell people what to listen to. You're not listening to a unique suggestion that's handcrafted for you - you're listening to the same suggestion that was made to millions of other people.
Do you like what millions of other people do? If so, good for you. Have fun being in the plurality. Apple Music/the radio will make the best suggestions for you (although so will Spotify.)
Most people have more unique tastes. Spotify keeps tabs on what you listen to, how often you listen to it, how much of it you listen to, which playlists you put it in. It compares that against what everyone else does. It knows what you want to listen to right now and it gives you something brand new that you've never heard of, from an artist you've never heard of, from the other side of the planet, that only a few dozen people have ever heard, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever heard.
And again and again. I've built up a massive catalog of hundreds of artists nobody has ever heard of before, but I found them because Spotify knew that I would love them.
My experience with Apple Music for a few hours was Slipknot. Nothing but Slipknot. Slipknot for hours on end. Have you heard of Slipknot? You've probably heard of them or know one of their songs from the radio, even if you don't like them. They range from OK to not very good in my book. I repeatedly skipped them and manually picked other songs from other artists. Apple Music never once picked up on that and changed its recommendations. It was so convinced that all I wanted was Slipknot.
And so I ended my Apple Music trial early. Its suggestions are garbage, its UI was poor, and Apple is attempting to crush the competition just by its sheer size using a vastly inferior product. That's exactly what Microsoft was doing for decades with Windows. I can't support that behavior. So Spotify it is.
Maybe in your world that's how it is, but in my world everyone owns an iPhone. I have no family members on android and only one friend who uses it. iPhone is king here, maybe it's different where you live.
Exactly, people just think about what they want for themselves and never think about other people.