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I’ve lived in the United States for more than 34 years now — longer than I lived in my native U.K. — but I still listen to BBC Radio almost daily.
I’m still a big fan of the U.K.’s music culture, and a great way to stay on top of it is to listen to the BBC’s eclectic mix of shows.
I’ve also long been a fan of DJ mixes, which are frequently broadcast on BBC Radio but are not generally available on Apple Music, my default music app.
I won’t get into the legally murky details of how I obtain these mixes, but once acquired, they are easily synced across my devices, thanks to the magic of Apple Music.
In fact, being able to upload your own music to the platform is a big differentiator over Spotify, which can technically do this but makes the process painful.
If you have a trove of rare MP3s, concert recordings or music that isn’t available to stream, Apple Music is a great place to park it. Here’s how.
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We all suspected that Apple’s special creator event in L.A. today might have been a smokescreen for the launch of M5 MacBook Pros. But no, it turns out the event was just as described: a showcase for the new Apple Creator Studio bundle. Nonetheless, it gives us an interesting look at how shooting and editing video can now be unapologetically mobile-first.
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With the AI boom gobbling up chips and memory as fast as the industry can make them, a leading Apple analyst predicts Cupertino will absorb the costs to grow market share — and make up the losses later in services revenue! Say what you like about Tim Cook, but he knows how to run a giant multinational.
A couple of years ago, I was tootling around Cupertino when I found myself in front of Apple’s first real corporate HQ, a modest, low-slung office building on Bandley Drive. The most notable thing about it is the color: It’s beige, of course!
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Some people are saying that we ought to put an IBM PC on every desk in America to improve productivity. It won't work. The special incantations you have to learn this time are “slash q-zs” and things like that. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel — one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
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