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ChezGiven

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  1. I've been a couple of times, there is an element of nails drinking with people in piles of vomit passed out at all times of the day. Then there is the typically forced bavarian jollity and buxom wenches playing to the stereotype. I think the whole thing is probably best approached with psychedelic drugs. 

  2. :lol: What a tit. 

     

    Do you still hand out bed baths Cath? I was in hospital (Newcastle general) for a week when i was 14 and had this nurse who i basically fell in love with. I was on loads of legal smack at the time, so my judgement could have been out. Never forgotten her though. 

  3. That sentence is a shitshow. [emoji38]

     

    Exactly, representing the convoluted thinking that got us to the point where this was 'evil corporate America' forcing DRM on us. 

  4. I think you've taken a general point personally. 

     

    Not at all, i was disagreeing with how you framed the debate in the thread that's all.

     

    Anyway, i found an article which answered my question from yesterday

     

    http://futureofmusic.org/blog/2016/09/06/did-labels-ask-apple-remove-headphone-jack

     

    "Record labels are embroiled in larger battles than preventing individuals from manually copying music through their headphone jacks"

     

    So the answer was that the concern was that the digital wire would stop people who are copying the music through the audio jack output from their phone to store the file that they already have free access to. 

  5. Driven by me personally? :lol:

     

    I mentioned the concerns over DRM that are being widely published.

     

    YOUR accusation is too incredible for ME to stay in this thread....

     

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    What? :lol: I mean you prompted the issue being debated but were then implying that the issue was being debated because people were falling in love with the solution. I was merely pointing out that it was the other way round. 

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    Charge £160 and draw an apple on it and people fall in love with the solution to a problem that doesn't exist ...actually introduces problems... and throw their money at it.

     

     

    Hang on. The issue in this thread has been driven by you personally claiming that this was evidence of corporate malpractice and reflected ulteriour commercial motives. 

     

    I moved last year to bluetooth headphones so its an advantage to not have a 3.5mm jack. If this is a general trend, we dont need the jack. They provide an adaptor for the jack for when you need it. If you have wireless headphones as loads of people now do, you wont need the jack unless you are using your iphone to play through a home music system. If you play mp3s through a home music system, you're a cunt and dead to me anyway. Small domestic speaker systems designed for plugging phones into are an acceptable exception. 

     

    You also claimed this new digital connector would be able to control to which amplification systems the signal was sent, which was too incredible for me to leave in the thread as it basically assumed that digital signals could interpret analog inputs. Which is very funny and daft :lol: 

  7. People have over invested in all this apple cack. It's like wanking over a Casio watch.

     

    Its technology not Apple thats interesting. Great article in this weeks Economist on the future of Uber, shit like that is interesting. 

  8. This would suggest though that the biggest advancement on the iPhone 7 is a method of stopping people listening to music and charging their phone at the same time.

     

    Not sure why they would chose to do that without other greater benefits to the company beyond shaving another mm of the depth of it.

     

    Are aux connectors expensive so cutting out those suppliers offer huge savings on production?

     

    The 3.5mm jack is a very old technology that breaks. Wireless doesnt break, frees up space. I've been wireless for ages now, as the quality from a 100 euro pair is as good as wired in-ear phones of around the same price. So there's that and the fact that every device (the new macbook has only one input too) seems to be moving that way. The Airpods look decent too. 

  9. All creative activity comes from the morphogenic field that surrounds the planet and belongs to everybody, all ideas belong to everyone and hence must be free. Any system that tries to block the freedom of ideas on this planet will fail cause the planet don't like it.

     

    Bollocks

  10. Its this bit that makes no sense if there is an analog adapter 

     

     

     

    by wrapping that audio in DRM, Apple gets a veto over which of your devices can connect to your phone. They can arbitrarily withhold permission to headphone manufacturers, insist that mixers be designed with no analog outputs, or even demand that any company that makes an Apple-compatible device must not make that device compatible with Apple's competitors, so home theater components that receive Apple signals could be pressured to lock out Samsung's signals, or Amazon's.

     

    If they remove the adapter (something that seems logically impossible once they've made it) then perhaps there would be something there but the lack of adapter (which it ships with) would in itself do the job the 'digital' wire is supposed to be doing (restricting access). 

  11. You can use another app and load your music into that, you can load illegal music into the apple music app. If you want to own music and load files you own onto your iphone, you can. If you want to stop that (which is the very bizarre premise of what you are saying), a wire is not how you do it. You make the app unable to sync music that was not sourced from the app store and you dont allow other music playing apps on the phone. 

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG1a2CpP1eI

  12. In response to Andrew....

     

    Yeah. That's been my point all along. DRM hardly worked before because piracy was a better solution in terms of the devices you could listen on and the cost.

     

    Now all music is as good as free and a digital wire can cut the signal from any illegitimate source, apple are sure to capitalise and drive people towards their subscription service.

     

    There it is! What does that mean? 

  13. If you're listening to exclusive apple content without it having the exclusive apple content DRM why would they support your robbing from them?

     

    I just want you to basically explain in layman's terms the situation i might be facing. I dont understand your post at all. You mean some music on the Apple music app is exclusive and i am playing this on the iphone. Now what? As currently, you cant take music off the music app and play it elsewhere. You can stream and download for offline use. If you want to be able to take that file out of the app then you are going to have to pay for the music. If you could take that file and download it or take it to another device then that would mean i could pay 9 euros to own 46 million songs. 

     

    Not being able to do this is a concern? :lol: 

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