MQA is Vaporware

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3 hours ago, FredericV said:

I found his quote here:

https://www.stereonet.co.uk/features/inside-track-bob-stuart-mqa

Is real PCM as we know it soon dead and being replaced by a crypto DRM scheme? How does this benefit the consumer in any way?

 

Well, it does not.

It helps content providers milk the customer.

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40 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Great question. As a group, audiophiles have famously been anti-DSP. Now, many are suddenly in favor of DSP that can't be undone (MQA). It's craziness. 

Indeed! Your comment deserves a standing ovation!

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15 hours ago, MikeyFresh said:

Cutting edge I suppose, does it have a blue light to comfort you with a level of authentication hitherto unknown?

 

I wonder how blue lights and green markers mix for physical MQA-CDs....

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On 12/25/2020 at 5:09 PM, BigWilliam said:

 

I mean beyond managing to control his greed and only cash in on dongles instead of user data...

 

He did well for apple

 

But what has changed with apple since Jobs died that required any real leadership?

 

He's just running off job's choices. And monetizing dongles, he really know how to sell peripherals

 

You do not make 1.6Trillion in dongles.

 

What requires leadership? Two things from the top of my head.

1. Sacking a resident god like Ive that was (without Jobs's control) favouring form over function leading us to the failure of the butterfly keyboard and some MacBooks that needed two mobo and three keyboard replacements in 3 years. 

2. Walking back on keyboard design instead of claiming "you are typing on it wrong" as Jobs would have done.

3. Driving a transition from Intel to Apple Silicon (you know which architecture it is).

4. More openness: after the last announcements some engineers were allowed to talk about their contributions on social media – something completely unthinkable at the time of Steve Jobs.

 

and I could go on, but you prove there is one thing that is more annoying than apple fanboys: apple bashers.

 

 Roberto

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17 hours ago, BigWilliam said:

Dongles, chargers, and earpods? Oh yea you'll pad those numbers. That's his major contribution.

 

Those are the biggest earners he came up with

 

Mac, app store, iphone, ipad all the same.

We're going green so we will no longer include chargers, genius.

 

The pods alone my god.

 

Apple's earnings for Q1 2020:

• $55.96 billion: iPhone
• $12.72 billion: Services
• $7.16 billion: Mac
• $10.01 billion: Wearables, Home, and Accessories
• $5.98 billion: iPad

I would say that the major contribution is properly driving the services and keeping the iPhone competitive in a quite crowded market with little space for premium devices. For instance making security a market differentiator (ask yourself why security experts like to break iPhones AND also choose iPhones as personal devices) and making the Apple Watch a training assistant and health device (Jobs and Ive wanted it to be only a luxury item). Compare the average prices of wearables and other accessories and you will easily get where the bulk of those $10.01B comes from.

 

There is only one thing more annoying than apple fan boys: apple bashers.

 

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2 hours ago, BigWilliam said:

Yea they dominated that market before he died

 

Which one of the markets I mentioned? Some are new,

 

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Nothing has changed

 

If you say so...

 

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Security experts don't choose iphones, tech savvy people do not like the apple ecosystem, what are you talking about?

 

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You have totally no clue at all.

 

I am a tech savvy person. And I chose to stay in the apple ecosystem.

In fact, if you enter an Arm or a Google office, companies which are mostly about development and computer architecture, you'll see that the laptops are at least 50% apple ones. 

 

By "Security experts" I do not mean the low level IT folks that have to plug and unplug cables and bring the monitors to the engineers and architects. I refer to the *researchers* (of which I also am one) that analyse security problems, break systems to notify the vendors in order for the latter to fix their product in the hope the bad guys have not done the same in the meantime, and to prevent them doing the same, as well as find mitigations. A large chunk of them sometimes even openly declare "I do not want an apple main computer but my phone is an iPhone because of higher security wrt the rest". This is a fact. Go to a security conference or a cryptography conference and look at what computers you see.

 

"tech savvy people do not like the apple ecosystem" is one of the most ridiculous pieces of BS one can ever think of writing. True, many tech savvy people loathe apple, but generalising the way you did is quite a bit of an exaggeration.

 

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Security experts at your business chose iphones because that's what their bosses wanted. And that's waht they're familiar with. 

 

Actually, we can choose between a PC or a Mac, between an android company phone or an iPhone, and again.

 

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I worked at apple as a tier 1 work at home rep for a couple years when i was younger. I get them.

 

Ok, Apple asks their employees to use Apple devices. Duh. It is not forced everywhere at all companies. In high tech companies where there is a choice of platforms (when there is none, it is usually a windows machine and an android phone) a sizeable chunk of the technical staff (not talking about design and marketing!) chooses apple products. And another big chunk a windows machine or a linux one.

 

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He hasn't changed a thing but their thick skin in selling the peripherals.

 

Apple has always sold peripherals.

I understand you are a disgruntled former employee. Cool down and remember: apple bashers are the only category even more annoying than apple fanboys.

 

To quote Tim Cook, people often mistake innovation for change. Innovation can be something that you do not even see. Like the M1. Like the extremely strong microarchitectural push in their CPU designs. The Apple Watch and the AirPods contain a lot of innovation. And these are in the top 10 "The Verge" list of most innovative products of the last decade.  Content is a new push, and they have all the hw/sw ecosystem to support it. 

 

I stop here, because we are off topic. But I friendly recommend you to stop as well, you are making a fool of yourself.

 

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On 12/28/2020 at 7:52 PM, The Computer Audiophile said:

Anyone can get a patent "accepted."

 

True, I have seen my share of computer patents being recycled with a "on a mobile device"

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2 hours ago, MarkusBarkus said:

This link is 404, but is this a new story or the one from 2015? He had "history" with Tidal...

 

It does not work on some mobile browsers. Fine on non-mobile views.

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On 11/17/2022 at 2:48 PM, DuckToller said:

@Archimago

Morality could be the fuel for a common future, but we live in a world where most of us have often heard:
"Morality doesn't help effectively in that case" or "you can't fill your stomach with morality" or "Morality is for the weak",
and where the reception of Morality in this century for JoeSixPack balances between limited "Moralists" and successful "Rulebenders" .
In Germany people who sell their soul or lie without shame are nowadays often toutet "Ehrenmann" (Gentleman), which became a (youth speech) synonym for exactly the opposite.
Seems like incredible difficult to prove morality as a valid & fundamental force for our society.

 

I am both Italian and German, can confirm this twisted meaning of "Ehrenmann" in German, and add that in Italian "uomo d'onore" (a man of honour) has a very important second meaning: a member of the mafia. 

 

 Roberto