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dnanian

@dnanian@mas.to

Owner of Shirt Pocket. Co-Wrote SuperDuper, BRIEF, Track Record. Wrote netTunes, launchTunes. Unredeemed gadget fan. Dog lover. Not that way.

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Gte, to random
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I think some of the chat around visionPro has been that people have seen it (zing) primarily as a way to consume video. An expensive way with a battery that barely makes it through a movie.
And there’s been a very fair assessment that it’s just not worth it for that for many. Which is why the news of some streaming apps skipping it dings it all the more. I can’t argue with that at all. I think that’s a shame and some chickens coming home to roost for Apple. Gaming is also not an obvious win.

dnanian,
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@Gte And what's frustrating about that: there's a certain reliance on 3rd party developers to find that purpose - to, in essence, make the market.

And, once made, those developers are told their success was only due to Apple allowing them access to their APIs, for which they must pay, forever.

But the market would not be made without them…because the purpose isn't really there.

dnanian,
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@schwa @Gte The point is that the hardware isn't given away. The software drives the sales. No one is saying the hardware isn't worth something. It's that the profits from the sale of said hardware don't satisfy.

I mean, developers don't get a cut of the hardware THEY sell by making it useful, you know?

dnanian,
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@schwa @Gte That R&D and marketing wouldn't help without the 3rd parties. And if you add up all the R&D of all the 3rd parties, and all their marketing…

dnanian,
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@schwa @Gte A new platform required 3rd parties to do R&D to create products and then market them. I'm not conflating anything.

I'm not saying Apple is "freeloading”. I'm saying that it's a symbiotic relationship that is unacknowledged, where each benefits from the other's work.

3rd parties generally acknowledge that fact. Apple generally thinks of 3rd parties as a necessary evil…a platform can't be "perfect" without complete control.

dnanian,
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@schwa @BenRiceM So, to be clear, what you're saying is that, say, refrigerator makers should charge milk producers who benefit from their sales, marketing and manufacturing teams, in order to maintain a fresh product.

Or, musicians should pay car companies for the privilege of being able to be played on entertainment system of the car the user has purchased.

After all, both enable things that are effectively unavailable otherwise, no?

dnanian,
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@grork @BenRiceM @schwa @Gte Sure. But "at some scales”, if those apps were being sold direct by the developer, they would be priced in a way that was sustainable.

This is kind of what I've been saying in other posts: sure, these pressures benefit the consumer to some extent, right? But they do so primary on the backs of the developers, who face distorted market pressures due to the way the marketplace has been constructed with no alternatives.

dnanian, to vinyl
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Television - Marquee Moon

More a guitar album than a punk one, featuring two terrific guitarists - Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd (who would later be heavily featured on a number of Matthew Sweet albums), with great songs and lyrics.

In fact, so much of a guitar record, that they asked the supervising producer to rework the drum sound he carefully engineered to deemphasize them.

Anyway, a seminal NYC album from the late 70s...

dnanian, to random
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Happy lighting $3500 on fire day, to those who celebrate.

dnanian, to random
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The Holdovers is set a few years before when I was in boarding school, but holy cow every detail in it feels dead-on.

(It's an excellent movie, I think…)

hotdogsladies, to random
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I wonder how many bands realize they wouldn’t even exist without Wire.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7KAlPZuWnduzAf07cJPrlZDOqTrAtUOc&si=HK5ZwPoUOoOdSKLr

dnanian,
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@hotdogsladies And amazing to think that they're still vital so many years later.

(Amusingly, one of my nicknames at a local record store is "wire guy”…)

gedeonm, to random
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What was the first movie you ever saw in the theater?

Mine: Bambi

dnanian,
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@gedeonm If you've seen Jaws, you've seen the rest of the film. :-)

dnanian, to random
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Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

Is there a more important musical artist over the past 50 years? Eno has appeared everywhere, from classical works to art rock to new wave to funk to arena rock…always doing something interesting in a genre that changed, perhaps permanently, after he gave it a push.

“Non-musician” my ass…

This, his second solo album, sounds as modern today as it did in 1974.

dnanian,
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@etherdiver I've never been able to choose. All his vocal albums make me wish he did more of them…

dnanian, to animals
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Your water and food is inadequate, foolish human. What I desire is dirty snow.

A bernese mounting dog, mid-chomp of some dirty snow.

icastico, to vinyl
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Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club @vinylrecords

Better than any Talking Heads record imho. Found a nice cheap used copy.

dnanian,
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@icastico @vinylrecords Well... don't know about that - but it's a great LP.

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    dnanian,
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    @schwa password2, eh?

    dnanian, to random
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    Not all heroes wear capes.

    dnanian, to vinyl
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    Emma Anderson - Pearlies

    Lush's reunion was cut short in 2016, and Emma Anderson had been working on songs for a new Lush album (post-EP) that never happened.

    Some of that was repurposed and joined with new material for this solo album, which is quite melodic…some of it could be a soundtrack to a Peter Strickland movie.

    I do miss the vocal interplay between Berenyi and Anderson, but it's nice to have Anderson back doing new music.

    dnanian, to random
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    For the discerning landlord who is trying to economize.

    https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-big-chets-landlord-supply-store-featuring-the-jankiest-appliances-of-all-time

    dnanian, to vinyl
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    Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Atlantic 75/Acoustic Sounds)

    Crazy jacket for this one that I can't figure out how to deal with yet. Crazy good mastering and pressing, too.

    The obvious and inarguable peak of early Genesis. Super ambitious...but (at least from a story perspective) super...well, oblique. But everyone wanted to do a Rock Opera back then, and so... but the confusion doesn't detract from the overall greatness.

    dnanian, to random
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    I mean, yes, Apple gave us Slow Horses. But they also brought us The Family Plan.

    dnanian, to random
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    Here's an iOS question: Messages aren't showing up for me in CarPlay (so, I missed them sitting in the Logan Cell Phone lot waiting).

    A friend has a "Show in CarPlay" toggle in Messages notification settings...but that's not there for me.

    Anyone know what's going on?

    dnanian,
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    @WTL That 2nd one is the one that's not there.

    (I gotta say, this whole thing is a huge mess.)

    dnanian,
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    @WTL Yup, latest OS and phone.

    jamesthomson, to random
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    Well, I nearly made it four years!

    dnanian,
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    @jamesthomson Blergh. Merry Covidmas? (Get well soon!)

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