I don't know if you are reading this but that's interesting. Why would Servo use C and C++? The whole idea for Rust I thought was parallelism.

Well to use my daughter as an example she doesn't download anything. She just pays $60 a year to have unlimited access to 90% of the all the music she could ever possibly want. She doesn't get to keep anything but the total cost is very reasonable.

Actually in the price point they compete in ($400+, $500+ phones) they are gaining share. The huge growth is in the $150- part of the market and Apple is getting none of that. You can count share by grouping sneakers, and jumbo jets into "transportation facilitation devices" and just counting units. And that would be similar to the way people count smartphones as one big pile.

I think there has been some rather large innovation.

iPhone:
an entirely new manufacturing process unlike any ever done for any consumer device ever allowing for thinner and lighter
an entirely new GUI
the introduction of a finger print based security / payment system

mac laptop:
The move to high resolution (retina display)
standardizing on SSD allowing the operating system to use a small frequent write strategy that won't work for HDD

desktop:
an entirely new pro line
the move to fusion technology

The growth has happened in areas like computers where the market has beens shrinking as well.

I get that. My point to GP was that Apple is aware of that way of doing things and didn't do it that way because they wanted the album much more widely available. They wanted a push not a pull.

I was using short hand. You have to mount the drive so that the /private/var/vm/swapfile is a hardlink. So for example you might mount a drive to /vm and then have /X/private be a hardlink. You can't just symlink for swap.

Yeah odd typo that still sort of worked. Oh well.

Apple doesn't tend to go down those slippery slopes. They are able to use discretion and judgement.

There seems to be a permanent shift in the younger generation not owning music. I don't know that piracy is the problem. My daughter and her friends (all teenagers) don't pirate but they, with very few exceptions for which those services don't work, don't buy music on a per song or per album basis. Rather they subscribe to services or get ads via. things like Pandora, youtube and Spotify.

My generation which was enculturated to buy music still buys. But I think we are talking about a true cultural shift where younger people see music like TV shows as something they wouldn't own for a lifetime.

Apple does that all the time. They have free music I think every week. This is a higher end promotion where they purchases a premium product not something from an up and coming band.

No it is a "we reserve the right to act in the common interest". Which is something if you actually own an Apple device that they do regularly. You know all those apps your phone came with, you didn't pick them either.

Well first off this wouldn't download except on wife. But that's a stupid expectation. Apple does push out security updates and things like that as needed. Also if you have autoupdate on then you have it on for applications most likely in which case this could be happening as frequently as daily as various mobile apps update.

Purchases over 50m download from wifi. So no this wasn't hitting a data cap at all.

Purchases over 50m download from wifi. This wouldn't have used their cellular data plans.