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I’m comparing radio’s free plan (the only plan), with Spotify’s free plan. When it comes to free streaming music, radio was better. Radio isn’t giving you a taste for free in hopes you’ll upgrade. Spotify is more like a drug pusher in this way… first hit is free, but they are hoping that gets you to pay.

That’s exactly what I want in my car, security vulnerabilities that gives someone access to control anything electronic… that sounds terrifying.

Aspects can also become obsolete, like all the cars that lost their internet connectivity when the cell providers decommissioned the 3G data networks the old cars were using in 2022. Check out some of the cars on this list, they aren’t even that old… That’s a nice 2019 Porsche 911 you have there, too bad the remote, safety and security features stopped working 3 years after purchase. I guess that’s what $92k gets you.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/16/3g-networks-shutting-down-in-2022-could-affect-your-cars-gps.html

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We’ve gone through a few different models for MS Authentication at work. The current one is to put in your password for what you’re trying to access on the laptop, then it prompts for a number, and the phone gets a push notification to tell which number. It works well enough. I just wish SSO worked more so I didn’t need to put in my password so much.

So a free version of YouTube Music?

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I think there is value to meeting the people you work with face to face. It goes a long way to help build rapport, and it doesn’t require all that much time.

I would be OK with 1 event per quarter, which would be 4 weeks per year. Not exactly 90/10, but close enough and 90/10 sounds better than getting too technical. Give me a free flight, hotel, and food in an interesting place for a week 4 times per year. I’m good with that, provided they aren’t all so mandatory that if you have a conflict with life they don’t shit can me. Maybe there are 4 opportunities per year, and you show up for 2.

I was actually going to suggest this to my boss as a compromise when I went to work from home and moved about 6 hours from the office… but the pandemic happened 2 weeks after I left, so that pretty much eliminated any chance of that happening and the team I was on in that office was gutted.

If this allowed a company to eliminate their offices completely, I wonder how that would work out financially. I assume it would be cheaper than maintaining an office.

macOS does this too, but by default it changes based on your input device and it can be changed in the Settings.

I’m all for a return to skeuomorphic design on macOS and iOS. I think it was a nice juxtaposition to the minimalist hardware design.

One of the big selling points for Apple stuff is how it all works together. That’s lost when releasing generically on Android. There is an old quote from Alan Kay that goes, “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” Apple lives by this idea.

An iPod was my first Apple product, pre-iTunes for Windows. The software I had to use sucked, so I took an irresponsible amount of money at the time, and bought iMac so I could use iTunes. OS X at the time had an app called iSync to sync your contacts to a cell phone, it worked with the Moto Razr. When I went to go buy one from Verizon and asked if iSync worked they proudly (for some reason) said no, because Verizon put their own software on all the phones they sold to help with support… so I went to Cingular (now AT&T), so I could sync my phone with my computer. The iPhone came out, so of course that would be the phone to get, because it would sync my music, contacts, calendar, etc to my phone as seamlessly as the iPod worked with iTunes. That sync has only improved over time and includes so much more. Then smart watches start to become a thing, Apple has already shown me they know how to make things work well together, so of course the Apple Watch is the smart watch to get. I can fire up Apple Fitness on my Apple TV, iPhone, or iPad, and my Apple Watch will automatically see it and start a workout, and show my heart rate on the screen with 0 setup.

The halo effect and the ecosystem are very real and it’s a reason to buy Apple stuff. In many cases there are new hardware features that enable the software to do what it’s doing. Apple has dabbled in software for other operating systems. iTunes for Windows, Safari for Windows, Quicktime for Windows, Apple Music for Android, Apple TV for all sorts of TVs. A lot of people get upset by the the seemingly needless extras it comes with, or just think they sucks. A lot of this is because many of Apple’s apps heavily leverage system services within macOS and iOS, so to run them another OS requires reimplementing all that stuff, so it feels very non-native, and overall weird, with more bugs, and a lack of some of the nice to haves around the ecosystem when things are all coming from Apple hardware as well as software.

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What are they looking for the carriers to do? RCS uses data, the carriers support data.

It would be nice, but there would be a revolt from all the creators. Right now they get 100% of that money, and if they had to rely on just a cut of Premium, it likely wouldn’t be nearly as much. They’d probably find other ways to weave it into the video instead of having a dedicated sponsored segment… which would be better. The cut away to the recorded sponsor read always seems a bit lazy.

Right. Messages was an SMS app, and iMessage was a feature added to it to provide a better experience between iPhone users, when data was available. If it’s not an iPhone, or data isn’t available, it seamlessly falls back to SMS.

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I’ve been debating dropping it, not because it’s not nice to have, but because it makes YouTube too easy to watch. Maybe if I was hit with more ads I’d get frustrated and do something useful.

Hmm… I can’t remember if I’ve seen anything like that or not. 90% of my YouTube watching is on my TV, 9% is on my phone (full screen), and 1% is probably on the desktop, so it’s rare I’d have the opportunity to see this. The platforms I do watch on would be most impacted by in-video ads, and I get none of those, which is the main thing I care about. If only YouTube Premium let you auto-skip messages from sponsors.