Steve Jobs, the iPad, and cultural sugar water
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From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 23:52 On 07-05-2010 18:10, nospam wrote: > however, the problem is that nobody at apple cares about music that > isn't mainstream pop/rock. other genres, including classical, world and And yet I still thoroughly enjoyed my iTunes, then my iPod, and now the iPod portion of my iPhone by completely ignoring albums, composers, and artists, and looking only at the song list and the playlists. -- Wes Groleau Semantic technologies http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=97
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 23:53 In article <qCwYn.15851$dx7.7251(a)newsfe21.iad>, Todd Allcock <elecconnec(a)AnoOspamL.com> wrote: > While full file system access probably isn't desirable on something like an > iPad, does no one find it ironic that each new OS iteration adds additional > kludges to simulate the function of a file system? Shared folders? > "Sending" copies of files from one compatibile app to another? Apple's > working pretty hard to cobble together a fairly complicated simulation of a > file system to make things "easier" that having a user accessible file > system! the current implementation is not particularly good. hopefully it gets better very soon.
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 23:54 On 07-05-2010 21:18, nospam wrote: > what*really* needs to happen is being able to define the column > headings for any tag and put them in any order and have it apply to a > particular playlist (which view options currently does). that way, it > can be tweaked for the nuances of each genre and for the user's needs. > what works for rock music does not work for showtunes, for example. Ah, so you want the "database filesystem" I was suggesting for Tim Streater. :-) -- Wes Groleau It seems a pity that psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. -- G. K. Chesterton
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 23:59 On 07-05-2010 22:25, Todd Allcock wrote: > I'll give you that, with the reservation that only services Apple approves > of will get into the app store, of course. They've already approved Safari, Google, FireFox, Opera, and YouTube … -- Wes Groleau "Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. But I'm not so sure about the universe." -- Albert Einstein
From: Wes Groleau on 6 Jul 2010 00:02
On 07-05-2010 23:46, AES wrote: > Just typed "htaccess" into Find windows in the Mac Finder Help and into > an online Users Guide for Tiger -- no hits in either. Two reasons for that: (1) it's .htaccess, so it's not a file that the Finder will normally show you. (2) It's only of concern to a webmaster, so it doesn't belong in the Finder help, and probably not in an O.S. guide. -- Wes Groleau Fuggedaboudit ! http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=91 |