I feel conflicted about this because I know journalism is in a rough spot, but I also hate the online ads so much. Usually I’d say this would be a nudge to force them to change course, but given the media’s in such dire straits, I’m not so sure this time.
In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, Apple delivered an insult to life itself by crushing all human creativity into an iPad Pro in its recent ad. Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed.
Man, I love some Apple products, but the Kool Aid is giving me indigestion.
Now, they've started the "Apple Podcast exclusives" program. So you can ONLY play these podcasts on their player on a Mac or an iPhone.
This S-U-C-K-S.
Podcasts have, since the very beginning been an open ecosystem. Content was produced and hosted anywhere, and the interface was an open RSS feed that can be consumed by anyone with any player.
Spotify tried this obvious enshittification play and by all accounts, it FAILED utterly.
Now Apple is using their home field advantage to try it and they may well succeed.
And it pisses me off.
An open podcast ecosystem benefits everyone, including !$#@ Apple because MANY of us largely listen on Apple hardware.
But I listen using @overcastfm, an outstanding podcast player by a hard working indie developer.
I resent this. I sent them a tweet but would love a way to send my message in a more precisely targeted fashion.
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
Apple entschuldigt sich für Werbung mit zerquetschtem Klavier
Ein Video, in dem Musikinstrumente in einer Presse zerquetscht werden, hat in den sozialen Netzwerken für Empörung gesorgt. Was eigentlich als Werbung für das neue Tablet gedacht war, endete mit einer Entschuldigung von Apple.
Apple pulls the controversial "Crush" ad and apologizes.
"The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art."
Creativity now sits in an ugly slab of future e-waste apparently, selling its body to #AI undoubtedly.
Goes to show that in the #Apple dystopia that is unfolding the earth is flat, everything is shallow, thinly-sliced, narrow-minded. And with that they are completely out of their depth.
Let an apple be fruit again, inspiring humans when it falls from the tree.
Apparently a lot of people (esp Japanese?) are upset at this new #Apple#iPad Pro ad from a couple of days ago. I guess I can see why though, a bit like throwing thousands' worth of food away just for content?
Apple's new iPad ad hasn't gone down well with creatives, according to @AxiosNews. The commercial showed a massive hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, arcade games, cameras and paint cans, and reopening to reveal just an iPad. "I'm definitely the target audience for the new iPad Pro but this ad is tone-deaf and insulting to artists of every kind," wrote cartoonist James Kochalka on X. "We think of our tools with reverence and respect, and enjoy a healthy dialogue with them. Our tools are like trusted companions on the journey of art." Here's more.
In Frankfurt sind die Kurse zum vierten Mal in Folge gestiegen, was dem DAX beinahe ein neues Rekordhoch bescherte. In New York ging es etwas weniger spektakulär zu.
Der vierte Gewinntag in Folge hat dem DAX beinahe ein neues Rekordhoch beschert. Anders als in Frankfurt ist in New York bisher wenig Dynamik zu sehen.
Der DAX steuert auf den vierten Gewinntag in Folge zu. Beinahe hätte der deutsche Leitindex sogar ein historisches Hoch geschafft. Die Wall Street ist dagegen verhalten gestartet.
On top of the great work that @AsahiLinux and the Fedora Asahi SIG do, they've also worked to line up releases with the rest of Fedora, so thank you for that!
This release brings:
OpenGL 4.6
High quality audio out of the box
Plasma, Gnome, Server, and Minimal variants available
Der DAX steuert auf den vierten Gewinntag in Folge zu. Das Rekordhoch scheint zum Greifen nahe. Experten trauen dem deutschen Börsenbarometer aber noch viel mehr zu.
Apple apologized for the latest iPad Pro product ads ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
Apple apologized for the advertising of its latest iPad Pro product, which sparked protests among citizens