Kyrie_Eleison

"Arguably the best"

There's no argument. It's not the best. The software support, as mentioned, is a joke, which keeps me from ever buying one of their phones.

Who has mp3s anymore? Seriously, what percentage of folks using music streaming apps even bothered to keep them?

Also, why no AI or algorithms/ In most cases they can improve your music discovery experience. Are you not interested? You just threw this demand out, but no explanation.

In the US at least, Apple certainly can slap their logo on a foldable phone, and 99% of iPhone loyalists will say this is the most innovative product they've ever seen since the advent of penicillin. People tend to fall into their silos and never leave--be it tech, politics, food, clothing, or shopping habits. That's human nature. The only tech folks that can spot the difference are the ones writing on tech blogs or the ones reading them, which is about as large an audience as a WNBA game.

Another example on AP today (the other being the ads coming to Gemini article) where Google ONLY knows advertising slop, a la the early 2000s, and its CEO can inspire nothing else for a revenue stream. Google sees tech and software as a gateway to advertising dollars. Consumers don't want this; follow Apple's services sub model, and revenue increases. Simple.

Of course.

Google, with its same CEO for years and years, is so boring and unoriginial in exciting investors with new revenue streams that the only way they think they can generate any money is with ads.

Funny how Apple has become a multi-trillion dollar company without splashing ads everywhere, or stealing your data to do so.

So ahead, Google--garbage up more services with advertising slop. It'll just drive us to more ad-free options. This isn't the 2000s anymore.