>Elements of the recordings that are easily perceived are represented with exacting precision, while other parts that are not very audible can be represented less accurately. Meanwhile, inaudible information can be discarded altogether.
Strongly disagree, not being able to keep up with demand is not a bad problem to have. As for being out of ideas, Please - the competition are mainly me too products. No one else releases actual sales numbers and many android handsets are free or cheap so are not in the same market as Apple.
Strongly disagree, not being able to keep up with demand is not a bad problem to have.
Yeah, actually, it is. I've heard they're still having supply chain problems with the iPhone 5. If true, that means that they've made some fairly serious mistakes that they haven't made before.
It also really bears mentioning that Apple used to roll out globally over 3-4 quarters to manage supply. This time they pretty much did the whole world in one quarter. There's some interesting discussion that this presages a new standard 6 month release cycle.
Agreed, I don't see the need for change, the incremental updates have gotten us to the point where iOS functions very well. If you're looking for innovative UI there are over 600,000 apps, many of them with amazing and novel UIs very well suited to the app's function.
That link explains a mode by which Spotify's cloud based music can be available offline. iTunes Match gives access to YOUR OWN music via the cloud. Do you not see the difference?
I have 15,000 songs in my iTunes library, the vast majority of which are not on Spotify. My 16GB iPhone would normally only hold a fraction of my music but with an iTunes Match subscription I have access to it all.
Also, it gives an off-site back up of every matched song. So tell me, how is iTunes Match similar to Spotify?
I think that there is a tendency amongst us westerners to believe that meditation is about attaining something, Chögyam Trungpa described this as a type of "spiritual materialism". I've noticed this behaviour repeatedly, people feeling the need to quantify theirs and others progress or lack thereof.
If the writer of the TFA experiences 4 seconds of emptying his mind and a state of bliss, does it really matter that he didn't in your opinion use the correct terminology? or wasn't in the state long enough for this or that term to apply?
I enjoyed the article, it has inspired me to take up my own practise again, even 1 second of no thoughts and blissful awareness at the beginning of my day changes everything.
>I think that there is a tendency amongst us westerners to believe that meditation is about attaining something
Of course there is. It's the only rational reason to do something: for present or future benefit. Otherwise you quit the realm of reason and enter the domain of religion.
That is what many Westerners, especially those here on HN, miss. Meditation is expressly a religious/spiritual tool.
It's a technology of the sacred in the same way that visionary plants and chemicals are. In fact visionary plants can be a very effective preview/shortcut of the end goals a meditator wishes to reach.The point of meditation is to quiet the mind so that one can know God*
*Where here "God" means an experiential state of nondual, atemporal awareness radically different from our normal states of waking and dreaming.
My favorite Guy Kawasaki quote is in connection with the launch of windows 95, when someone said that windows is now as good as the Mac. He response was
"Saying Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming".
Apple products are as good and better than they have always been, the problem is that users now have this entitled attitude and nothing is good enough for them. Witness the tech press' reaction to the iPhone 5, they're bored because it doesn't look new, irrespective of it's actual merits. it's very tedious and a shame to see this attitude here on HN, where the discussion threads were usually more considered and the level of debate generally higher.
