Oh, I remember the Apple event. Not that I was watching it live, I was never that much of a geek over Apple products, but I do remember the moment I saw the album land in my it iTunes. Did anyone I know really care about the sudden appearance of a random Album - nope. Most of us deleted it and got on with our life’s, having never heard any of the tracks at all.
Right now, I’m more concerned about what they are doing with a 300MB update that needs 6.5GB of free space on both my iPhone SE 2020, and 9th Gen iPad… infact, any update needs multiples of free space that’s not there so it constantly wants to remove apps during the upgrade. Sigh.
For fun - Approximate maximum download speeds of Server Providers in the UK in 2014.
I listened to the album the next day. I remember it being not bad but of course that could be relative to my expectations. I never listened to it again. It may still be in my Apple Music account but probably has stupid DRM through it that prevents me copying it to any device that that I actually might use to play music.
Hmm. So the U2 album went in the ‘meh’ pile but because it was virtual my offspring could not borrow the CD to help form their musical tastes. That’s a win in my book. But the watch thing …. I later bought a series 3 which is still going but has never reached its full potential due to wildly insufficient storage. Nowadays it tracks what it calls my workouts and times dinner in the oven and tells the time. I long since turned off the yoga-tastic Breathe app that is actually way more annoying than the free U2 album ever was. And I can also tell when Mars is close to Earth, though if Elon ever gets there it won’t be far enough away for my liking.
Oh, I remember the Apple event. Not that I was watching it live, I was never that much of a geek over Apple products, but I do remember the moment I saw the album land in my it iTunes. Did anyone I know really care about the sudden appearance of a random Album - nope. Most of us deleted it and got on with our life’s, having never heard any of the tracks at all.
Right now, I’m more concerned about what they are doing with a 300MB update that needs 6.5GB of free space on both my iPhone SE 2020, and 9th Gen iPad… infact, any update needs multiples of free space that’s not there so it constantly wants to remove apps during the upgrade. Sigh.
For fun - Approximate maximum download speeds of Server Providers in the UK in 2014.
1. Virgin Media – 53.21Mbps
2. BT – 25.21Mbps
3. Zen Internet – 23.82Mbps
4. PlusNet – 21.81Mbps
5. Eclipse Internet – 14.83Mbps
6. TalkTalk – 14.20Mbps
7. Sky Broadband – 13.71Mbps
8. EE – 12.82Mbps
I listened to the album the next day. I remember it being not bad but of course that could be relative to my expectations. I never listened to it again. It may still be in my Apple Music account but probably has stupid DRM through it that prevents me copying it to any device that that I actually might use to play music.
Hmm. So the U2 album went in the ‘meh’ pile but because it was virtual my offspring could not borrow the CD to help form their musical tastes. That’s a win in my book. But the watch thing …. I later bought a series 3 which is still going but has never reached its full potential due to wildly insufficient storage. Nowadays it tracks what it calls my workouts and times dinner in the oven and tells the time. I long since turned off the yoga-tastic Breathe app that is actually way more annoying than the free U2 album ever was. And I can also tell when Mars is close to Earth, though if Elon ever gets there it won’t be far enough away for my liking.
God knows how you manage without an app to remind you to breathe.