It's $10 per month, so unless there are 18 months in a year where you are, it's not quite $180, but to answer the question - yes, there are a lot of people who will pay to remove the adverts.

There will still be a free tier on Apple music - the radio station thing they have - but the (self directed/semi-curated) streaming service will be paid. They've clearly looked at it and decided that the free streaming market is already well supplied - Pandora and Spotify in the US, for example, and want to go after the customers who are willing to pay to be ad free.

It's not about having a "short attention span", it's about perceived value. It's clearly worth it to many since both Pandora and Spotify have paid tiers, although clearly they have a lot more free users than paid ones.

The file dialog needs some love, or a setting that says "do not poll all disks" - I have an SSD as the boot drive, but I do have connected external and internal storage on spinning drives that is accessed infrequently.

It's a pain in the ass when you open a file dialog box and the system pauses to wait for all the drives to spin up. I would prefer it to only spin the drive up if I click on a folder or volume that is on that drive.

Where are the free legal equivalents that don't have adverts?

Intel didn't have any quad CPUs that would fit at the time of the update, so they were all dual core.

Assuming it gets updated again (it's been a while) then the CPU selection will be down to whatever Intel has shipping at that time.

This is the same issue that has affected the 15" MBP refresh - the CPU was not updated since there were no quad broadwell CPUs with a suitable TDP, while the 13" was updated with the dual core broadwell chips that were available earlier this year.

Dear AC.

Ask Intel.

Regards,

Tim

That's the point.

It's like Pizza Express, whose first advert was "word of mouth since 1936" or something.

Spotify haven't used traditional advertising because it's expensive and they are already getting a lot of exposure as it is.

Cool story bro.

Sure you can buy music for dirt cheap - you'll still be able to after this launches.

It's almost as if different people have different needs when it comes to products and services. I'm sure there's some sense in there somewhere. Could it be that people are different from each other? Help me out here. This isn't making sense.

No, but facts are a very pesky issue for Apple bashing so they're frequently ignored in favour of baseless speculation and fabrication.

It depends on the country. When Apple Pay inevitably launches in the UK it will be an enormous hit - contactless payment is all the rage here and has seen massive growth in the past 2 years.

It doesn't surprise me that the US is lagging behind. You guys don't even have chip and pin.

The summary is oddly worked but it means that it has not been a net benefit financially to advertise. They would spend more in advertising costs than they would gain in income.

So what market are they dominant in? The sale of Apple-branded products?

Or are we forgetting that Apple is only a "dominant monopolist" when it suits slashdot, and the "failing has been" when talk abut how Android has so much market share?

It can't be both.

This is not going after Pandora users, it's going after people who don't currently have a streaming service.

If it launches in the UK then it also might be for me since we can't get Pandora and while I like Spotify well enough, it didn't seem to work as well as Pandora did when I tried in in the US.

Either way, more competition in the streaming space will be good, surely.

Well, it was no different to the way the hit piece was worded - it considered money that Tesla *customers* could receive as tax breaks for Tesla in order to inflate the numbers and make it sound worse.

Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side and the truth. -Kosh

Out if interest, what "infections"? Do you have any examples. That's clearly a big issue if you're dealing with it daily. What infections are we talking about here?

Not that I'm doubting your story or anything.

(NECESSARY DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT CLAIMING THAT OS X CANNOT GET INFECTIONS)