Kirk McElhearn, longtime Macworld contributor and classical music aficionado, has taken an in-depth look at Apple Music Classical over at TidBITS:
I’ve long complained about the way iTunes, then the Music app and Apple Music, have dealt with classical music. The earliest such articles I can find on Macworld date back to 2005. In Corral your classical music, I wrote, “If you’re a fan of classical music, then you’ve probably, at some point, become frustrated with iTunes and the iPod. Track information from the Web is inconsistent, pieces are difficult to tag and categorize, and imported songs don’t flow seamlessly into one another.”
I’m happy to say that Apple has finally solved many of these problems. It’s a shame that it took so long.
Kirk has written more about dealing with classical music on Apple’s platforms than anybody I know, and I’m glad to hear his experience mostly mirrors mine. But he also talks about a lot of things that I wouldn’t have even thought to look into (how good search actually is, for example), which makes it a solid read if you’re wondering how good this app really is for classical music fans.
The apps we use for taking notes, the iOS 16.4 features (and emoji) we’re excited about, our thoughts on Apple Pay Later and installment payments, and what we hope — and expect — to hear about at Apple’s WWDC.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference now has a date for 2023: June 5-9. The company’s developer site announced the dates on Wednesday, along with a few more details. As in previous years, the event will be free and online, but like last year there will also be an all-day event for select developers and students at Apple Park, which will involve watching the keynote and State of the Union, along with some meet and greets and other activities. You can request to attend and people will be picked randomly and notified next week, on April 5.
Apple also announced the Swift Student Challenge for 2023, which lets eligible students submit an interactive scene for the chance to win prizes.
Expectations are high for 2023’s WWDC, which is thought to feature the unveiling of Apple’s mixed reality headset, as well as annual updates to the rest of the company’s platforms. Let the countdown begin!
When Apple announced the Apple Watch Ultra, I was especially interested in its introduction of an Action Button, an additional bit of hardware that could be set to trigger just about anything on watchOS. I began to wonder if future regular Apple Watches might get their own Action Buttons, too.
Now I’m starting to wonder if the Action Button might have been a sign of a major new Apple feature to come. What if the Action Button… came to the iPhone? It might happen as soon as this fall.
• Break Passwords out into a standalone app, with an actual fully resizable window (!!), and full, proper UI for most of its features
• Make Passwords a toolbar item in Safari for easy access and to be top-of-mind for the user
• Stick to a basic feature set, but do that well
I use both Apple’s built-in passwords feature and 1Password, but I prefer Apple’s because of its seamless integration. To Cabel’s point, though, it’s not publicized nearly well enough: I’ve tried to nudge many people towards setting up 2FA codes in Apple’s Passwords tool, but anything that starts with telling someone to tap down several levels into Settings tends to make their eyes glaze over.
Unlike Cabel, however, I would like Apple to implement some sort of family sharing feature for Passwords. I share a bunch of logins with my wife, and while I can share them with 1Password, there’s an additional hurdle to getting someone on a third-party app that requires their own account, etc. Especially as we shift more and more to passkeys, where traditional methods of sharing will be impractical, it’s more important that Apple make it easier to share credentials.
It may not have made Apple’s self-imposed 2022 deadline, but three months into 2023, the new Apple Classical app is finally taking its bow.
The result of Apple’s acquisition of Primephonic back in August 2021, Apple Classical is a bit of a strange beast. It’s best thought of as a different window through which you can view Apple Music, as from what I can tell all the tracks here are also available in the standard Apple Music library. And, indeed, it’s part and parcel of an Apple Music subscription: no extra cost, just another app.
So why an entirely separate program? Apple Classical is clearly intended to provide a better way to browse, find, and listen to classical (and adjacent) music. That’s a welcome addition for many classical music fans, who have long complained about how Apple Music (and its predecessor, iTunes) have handled—or failed to handle1—the genre.
At the root of the issue is that classical music has its own peculiarities that diverge from contemporary music: at the most base level, consider that most classical music isn’t performed by the artist who wrote it, given that in many cases they were long dead before the advent of recording technology. Thus listeners may want to look for performances by certain artists…but that’s complicated too, given that many are performed by orchestras, which might also mean looking for a specific conductor. That’s not even including other oddities, like the arcane cataloguing system of opus numbers.
Having grown up in a household with a classical music aficionado, I was steeped in the genre: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Prokofiev—all of these were in regular rotation in my home. Even though I didn’t have the same passion for classical music as my father, I know the importance of finding precisely the work you want to listen to. Anybody who’s ever asked their HomePod to “play Beethoven” knows that you often end up with a weird selection that’s not really what you wanted, and trying to get more specific is often a fool’s errand. The question is whether Apple Classical solves this problem, or merely compounds it.
With WWDC (presumably) a couple of months away, we take time to list some of our wishes for iOS 17. There’s also a lot more noise about the forthcoming Apple VR headset, and the entertainment industry and Apple are having communication issues.
What have we learned? This week, it’s that Russia is not happy with iPhones, the iPhone 15 will not be the same as the iPhone 14, and that Apple has reported to Spring Training in the best shape of its life and is ready to play ball.
Jokes that date to the Cold War
The word from the Kremlin this week is that Apple can’t quit Russia, it’s fired! Due to the upcoming Russian elections (gosh, I wonder what the results will be!), the government has banned officials from using iPhones. Their suggestion for what officials should do with them? ”Either throw it away or give it to the children.”
And, if you don’t wipe them, the kids will get their very first lesson in collecting kompromat! Training the next generation for a future in politics: it’s a win-win.
What exactly is Russia’s problem with iPhones, you may ask? Well, the official line is that the ban is “because of concerns that the devices are vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies.”
Really? The smartphone from the company that the FBI tried to strong-arm into creating a back door to is vulnerable to Western intelligence? OK. Surely this doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that Apple stopped selling iPhones in Russia because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. (Russians can still buy iPhones via parallel importing from other markets without Apple’s consent, but at a greater price and with a longer wait time.)
Apple previously capitulated to Russia by adding a step to the setup process to install apps preferred by the government (apps would be installed by default, but users could individually select to not install apps). But based on the comments above it seems like we’ve gone from detente to just taunt.
Buttoning up the iPhone 15 rumors
iPhone 15 rumors continue to churn like a stomach in an ad for Pepto Bismol. Current rumors suggest the upcoming line of smartphones will feature a new unified volume button and that the mute switch will be replaced by a button.
Depending on who you ask, this is either a godsend that will finally usher in a new era of 100 percent iPhone satisfaction or a devastating reversal in usability akin to removing the thumbs of every iPhone user in the world. (Look, if God did not want me to make such lazy strawmen, then he wouldn’t have made them burn so beautifully.) Whichever the case, I’m sure we can all solve this by arguing in forum threads before anyone has actually held one of the new devices if we just keep at it.
Meanwhile, another rumor has it the iPhone 15 Pro Max will strip the Thinnest Bezel trophy away from Samsung by shaving a gigantic two-thirds of a millimeter off the bezel of its iPhone 14 version. This is assuming you don’t count phones like 2019’s Xiaomi Mix Alpha, which wrapped around the sides of the phone but was considered a “concept smartphone” and sold for about $2,800.
The concept that phone seems to have proved is that, yes, bezels can be too thin if moving them into negative territory makes the phone cost more than twice as much as the most expensive mainstream phone.
Sportsball corner
Friday Night Baseball is back and, as Jason details, it features some changes this year. First, broadcasts will now be limited to Apple TV+ subscribers. This is disappointing, but not surprising, as Apple paid a lot for those rights. Now it’s your turn.
On a happier note, starting this season viewers can choose between listening to the national broadcasters or home team broadcasters. Is this what they call selection bias? Of course, sports rights wouldn’t be sports rights if there weren’t some special licensing deals in there that will put an asterisk on this. Sorry, Rangers and Blue Jays fans.
That’s not all the news this week related to Apple and sports. According to Bloomberg, the company is considering a bid for the rights to stream the English Premier League football games. We in the United States may know the English Premier League better as the league Ted Lasso’s Richmond Greyhounds start out in. And we may know “football” as “English football”, “soccer” or “Falling down dramatically and clutching at your knee.”
If Apple were to secure the rights which are currently held by NBC, it would be ironic because it was NBC securing them that created Ted Lasso in the first place. Jason Sudeikis originally created the character to promote NBC’s coverage before pitching it as a show. The rest is history. Bidding for these rights is expected to be as hot as Jamie Tartt in a calendar shoot, though, so don’t hold your breath waiting for Apple to walk away with it.
[John Moltz is a Six Colors contributor. You can find him on Mastodon at Mastodon.social/@moltz and he sells items with references you might get on Cotton Bureau.]
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At that time, our sales were slow enough that we often skimmed incoming orders to learn about who was buying. On September 30, 2003, exactly one year after we opened our virtual doors, an order with an RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] email address came through. That put a damper on our first anniversary celebrations, as we had full knowledge of the organization’s litigious history. We were naturally concerned that they were aware of our product. Unfortunately, there was nothing for us to do but feel uneasy and await their next move.
The late 90s and early 2000s were an interesting period when it came to Apple and the music industry. The rise of MP3s, CD burning, and peer-to-peer file sharing meant that piracy had gone digital—but many of those technologies could also be used for legal purposes, enabling iTunes and the iPod and creating mix CDs from your own music collection.
As is traditional, industries reacted to the new technologies with fear and tried to stamp them out. Which is why foundational podcast creator and former MTV VJ Adam Curry’s recent podcast interview, quoted by Kafasis, is so fascinating. Curry:
Steve asked: “How do you do your recording?” We didn’t really have any tools to record, there was not much going on at the time. But the Mac had an application called Audio Hijack Pro, and it was great because we could create audio chains with compressors, and replicate a bit of studio work.
Eddy Cue said: “The RIAA wants us to disable Audio Hijack Pro, because with it you could record any sound off of your Mac, any song, anything.” Steve then turned to me and said: “Do you need this to create these podcasts?” I said: “Currently, yes!”. So Steve Jobs told them to get lost.
This worldview was pretty much Apple’s take at the time when it was accused of encouraging piracy: While people might use its technology to violate licenses and break the law, the technology itself had valid, legitimate uses, and therefore Apple wouldn’t limit the utility of its products just because some people would do things with them that groups like the RIAA didn’t like.
Was Steve Jobs well aware that they were enabling piracy when they started the “Rip, Mix, Burn” ad campaign? Of course. Did the iPod make it easy to take songs downloaded from Napster on the go? It sure did. (So much so that at the iPod launch event, it literally gave journalists CDs along with their review iPods so that they wouldn’t be accused of pirating music.)
But Jobs and Apple also saw the bigger picture, and the world is better for it.
—Linked by Jason Snell
Rip, Mix, Burn, Stream, Play Ball
This Week In Apple columnist John Moltz joins Jason to talk about the “Rip, Mix, Burn” era of industry panic about piracy, the world of streaming services, and Apple’s new sporting ambitions.
Not too long ago I came the realization that I have a lot of camera equipment, and that I didn’t know where all of it was, or what condition it was in. Like most hobbyist photographers, it all starts with a low-end DSLR… and then flash forward 15 years and not only have you bought many cameras and lenses, but you have inherited even more.
I kept thinking I would track this with a personal, bespoke wiki, or Craft, or Obsidian, as nerds are wont to do, but they didn’t seem to fit the bill. I needed to be able to know not just their details on a page, but details across all of it.
Unfortunately, this meant spreadsheets. I work with really complicated, intricate software all day long, but I almost never do anything with office productivity software that’s more complicated than a 2nd grade book report, so this was admittedly a little humbling to fumble my way through this.
Kieran Healy and Dr. Drang can stop reading now.
The particulars
I needed to be able to sort and process the data in a non-destructive way, that would auto-update as new data was entered, or edited. I needed a solution that was going to be able to be used—not just read—on iOS and my Mac. It should ideally not cost very much, and not nag me to upgrade along the way.
When I posted about my needs on Mastodon, real professionals replied and suggested Google Sheets and AirTable. I immediately eliminated AirTable after going through its pushy account sign-up and intimidating set-up process. If you’re someone that uses AirTable for other things in your life, it’s probably great for the task. But it didn’t seem like a worthy investment of my time to watch a lot of how-to videos on AirTable for this one project.
Google Sheets certainly works on iOS and the Mac, and while I know there are many complaints about Google’s iOS apps, it’s easy to live with it as I’m not doing iOS-centric things that rely on share sheets and multi-app workflows.
At the same time, I tried Apple’s Numbers app, which no one suggested. I’m generally dismissive of Apple’s productivity programs (after ClarisWorks 2.0, that is) because they do weird stuff. I really don’t like the constant desire to show everything in the app as if I’m going to print it.
I’m not going to print it. Ever.
Can’t we have a display mode or something that kills all this extra white space? A mode for people that don’t have “Cyan Cartridge is Low” warnings?
And of course the iOS version on Numbers doesn’t seem to have a “paste and match style” option, so god forbid you only wanted to copy text and not the hot styling of Nikon’s archived spec sheets. When you paste a URL, the iOS clipboard actually includes the PDF object in addition to the URL—and Numbers helpfully decides that I want to embed a PDF in a spreadsheet cell.
I don’t want that. Ever.
Several months ago, when the updated version of Numbers that included pivot table support was released I had no idea what it was or why anyone would use such a thing. Plot twist! I love pivot tables in Numbers, and the feature works well on both my Mac and my iPhone… albeit a little better on the Mac.
With pivot tables I can do exactly what I wanted to do, making little reports that do things like count items in locations, or list which cameras are missing batteries. Or list which cameras are missing entirely! I can see a little list of just what cameras are ready to go on a trip.
I still loathe the printer-friendly, iPhone-unfriendly look of the document, but I couldn’t use Google Sheets because it only supports pivot tables in a desktop web browser. (Now I understand why the iOS-centric people are always annoyed by Google apps! I’m sorry for doubting you.)
How it’s organized
A big data table
In my Numbers document, I have a table that has all of my cameras, their location, battery type, a checkbox for if it has a battery, charger type, if it has a charger, camera type, lens system, film or sensor size, sensor resolution, spec sheet or manual URL.
A report filtered by camera type.
The second table is all of my lenses, with the minimum and maximum focal length, maximum aperture and maximum aperture zoomed (zoom lenses often have a lower maximum aperture at the highest end of their zoom range), mount type, autofocus checkbox, autofocus motor in the lens checkbox, vibration reduction/optical steady shot checkbox for stabilized lenses, and the location of the lens.
From the two tables I’ve been able to generate a pivot table that’s filtered by lens mount (F-Mount), and filters out any prime lenses (maximum focal length value has to be present). I can generate a pivot table of which cameras are missing batteries, and what those batteries are. I can even just count the number of cameras by type, and a grand total. All without doing any destructive operations or copying and pasting my original sheet to do edits on it. It’s all live updating and looks like the same printer-friendly document on my computer and my phone.
My next steps involve inventorying film (Kodak recently raised prices, so I bought up a big batch of film like a lot of other dorks) and adding formulas to do conversions (like focal length for lenses on APS-C sensors). A pivot table can’t do that math, it can just arrange, filter, and summarize.
I’ve also started entering the manufacturers manual or spec sheet URLs for cameras, but now that DPReview is going to shutdown and be wiped from the internet sometime shortly after, I also want to archive their camera and lens reviews for models that I have so I can add those file paths to the table.
All of this work means I no longer have to remember, or search the Internet, for all these little things like filter thread size and chargers. Which is good, since it’s been years since I was tracking one dinky camera—and while I might not be shooting with all of these cameras, they’re all important to me or someone else in my family. I’m glad to have all the data accessible in one place, at last.
Hannah Miao, Gregory Zuckerman and Ben Eisen reporting for the Wall Street Journal (Apple News) about the last-ditch attempts to save Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from running out of money:
The Fed needed a test trade to be run before the actual transfer could occur. That took time and the Fed didn’t extend its own daily deadline of 4 p.m. PT for collateral transfers to help SVB. Time ran out on the bankers and SVB couldn’t get the money that day…
The next day, the BNY transfer to the Fed went through, potentially allowing SVB to borrow from the central bank. According to people familiar with the matter, the San Francisco FHLB was still working on its transfer when executives saw an announcement from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.: The regulator had taken over SVB.
[Miao, Zuckerman and Eisen] have the actual, horrifying explanation, which is that the Fed’s computers go to bed at 4 p.m. and you can’t wake them up until the next morning….
I do not actually think that the banking crisis of the last two weeks… all could have been avoided if the Fed had said “hmm, normally we do a test transaction first, but you seem to be in a rush and it’s getting toward closing time so we’ll just skip that and go straight to lending you the money.” SVB’s problems were bigger than the Fed’s 4 p.m. transfer cutoff.
And yet! Man! What the heck! A lot has been written about how SVB was a bank run for a speedier, modern age. Instead of hearing a rumor at the coffee shop and running down to the bank branch to wait on line to withdraw your money, now you can hear a rumor on Twitter or the group chat and use an app to withdraw money instantly. A tech-friendly bank with a highly digitally connected set of depositors can lose 25% of its deposits in hours, which did not seem conceivable in previous eras of bank runs.
Or as Byrne Hobart of The Diff (quoted by Levine) put it, “when the user interface improves faster than the core system, it means customers can act faster than the bank can react.”
Back to Levine:
There will be all sorts of proposals for changes in bank regulation and supervision and deposit insurance and Fed facilities that come out of this crisis. [This] is probably not going to be top of the list: Again, I doubt it would have saved SVB, and I do not have any great technical insights into how it should be improved. But, I don’t know, wouldn’t it be a good idea? Wouldn’t you have more confidence in the banking system, if banks that had lots of assets could get money when they needed it?
It’s disturbing to think that the systems to save banks just don’t run as fast as the systems that have been built to streamline transactions that can lead to bank runs. More disturbing, perhaps, is to realize that this incident might not actually change anything.
The generative AI we’ve found the most compelling, our thoughts on Spatial Audio and surround sound systems, whether we think the game console is dying out, and our social media habits in the wake of the relaunch of Gowalla.
Boox Leaf 2 running EinkBro (left) and Substack (right).
I love e-readers. The high-contrast black-and-white E-Ink displays, the long battery life, and the software that’s focused on reading all made me a fan of the Kindle and, in recent years, the Kobo series of ebook readers.
Back in 2021 I reviewed the Boox Nova Air, a $389 Android tablet with an E-Ink screen. The idea: what if you could run all sorts of different apps on a single E-Ink device the size of a Kindle or Kobo? Ultimately, I found the Boox Nova Air to be an impressive piece of hardware that was let down by its software.
Spurred on by a rave review by The Verge’s Alex Cranz, I’ve been using a $200 Boox Leaf 2 e-reader on and off for the past few months. It’s a 7-inch reader that’s sized and priced more like a standard Kindle or Kobo. I’m happy to report that in the intervening months, the Boox software experience has improved—but a device like this is still probably not a good idea unless you are comfortable tinkering with Android apps and utilities.
By adding physical page-turn buttons to the Leaf 2, the device is much more usable as an e-reader than the Nova Air was. Many Android apps that understand the concept of turning pages of content support using the volume up and down buttons (which is what those page-turn buttons really are) to go forward and backward through content. Boox has added some clever software to let you set how the buttons are detected in different apps, and you can assign some very E-Ink-specific functions—like forcing a refresh of the screen!—to specific button gestures.
Page turning is a big deal, because E-Ink screens still don’t refresh fast enough to be usable with smartphone-style scrolling interfaces. Everything gets smeary and unreadable and generally is just… bad. Scrolling a webpage on an iPad is fine, but doing it on an E-Ink browser is really unpleasant.
Fortunately, there has also been some progress on the browser front. There’s a new Android browser called EinkBro that is specifically designed to be used on E-Ink devices, and it makes it easy to page through stories rather than scrolling through them. Though EinkBro would occasionally lose the plot and misrender pages a bit too wide, in general it was a huge boost to the usability of the device, since a lot of what I read is on the web.
As a result, my experience was much better than it was in 2021. Unfortunately, I ran into a lot of apps that still didn’t support page-turn buttons (Substack, I’m disappointed in you), and while Boox has a workaround for that (a utility called Navigation Ball lets you put up floating page up/page down buttons on screen), it’s an inconsistent and fiddly experience.
The other thing I realized is that a lot of Android apps are just bad. Okay, I’m not being entirely fair there—some Android apps are bad on the Leaf 2 because (for obvious reasons!) they were designed to be used with fast-refresh screens on Android phones, not slow-refresh E-Ink on a tablet. Other Android apps are just bad, or at least worse than the dedicated software you’d find on a fine-tuned, purpose-built e-reader by Amazon or Kobo.
The Kindle app on Android is actually pretty good, and works well with the Leaf 2 once you get it up and running. But if you use the page turn buttons too soon after you launch it, the Boox software won’t have kicked in yet and you’ll get a volume prompt instead of a page turn. And don’t swipe or tap to turn the page, or you’ll get a page-turn animation that can’t be turned off or properly rendered by the E-Ink screen.
The Kobo app is worse. It’s got a lot fewer options than the dedicated Kobo reading experience does, which is a shame since Kobo’s dedicated reading experience beats Kindle’s.
Boox also supplies its own e-reader app, but it didn’t let me turn off forced justification, which is a dealbreaker for me. But at least that app felt like it was specifically built for E-Ink, which is what’s missing from most of the Android apps I tried.
After this latest experiment, I’m left with two overriding thoughts about the future of e-readers. First, I wish Amazon and Kobo and the rest would finally embrace their hidden-away, “experimental” web browsers and just integrate them into the device experience. EinkBro shows that it can be done. More broadly, I wish those e-ink readers would consider adding basic support for other kinds of apps, especially given that Amazon just killed its digital newsstand program.
Amazon’s browser has been experimental for more than a decade now, so I’m not holding my breath. The other option—and this one has a far greater chance of happening—is that E-Ink refresh rates could keep getting faster. Right now some E-Ink displays are capable of 15 frames per second in black-and-white mode, which is pretty good! The more the screen can respond in the way that Android apps expect, the less a user will feel like they’re stuck in the mud when they’re using one of these devices.
The truth is, the e-reader market is so small—and so dominated by Amazon—that small companies like Boox are about the only ones trying to compete here. The products still aren’t good enough, in my opinion, but they’re getting closer all the time. Maybe someday I’ll fulfill my dream of reading everything, not just books, on a single E-Ink device. But we’re not there yet.
Baseball season is almost upon us, and that means the return of Apple’s Friday Night Baseball doubleheader. As was the case last year, it’ll be a broadcast with recurring national announcers and a bunch of extra Apple flair, including drone shots and spatial audio. As was not the case last year, when Apple gave it away for free, this year’s programming will be limited to Apple TV+ subscribers. As detailed by Apple Newsroom:
“Friday Night Baseball” will be produced by MLB Network’s Emmy Award-winning production team in partnership with Apple, bringing viewers an unparalleled viewing experience. Each game will feature state-of-the-art cameras to present vivid live-action shots, and offer immersive sound in 5.1 with Spatial Audio enabled. “Friday Night Baseball” will again utilize drone cameras for beautiful aerial stadium shots, as well as player mics and field-level mics to immerse fans in the gameplay and stadium atmosphere. Fans in the U.S. and Canada will also have the option to listen to the audio of the home and away teams’ local radio broadcasts during “Friday Night Baseball” games.
That last line is big news. One of the biggest complaints people had last year about Friday Night Baseball—and let’s be honest, it’s a complaint about any sport with a strong local announcer base that’s then broadcast to a single national audience using a neutral set of announcers—is that people couldn’t hear the voices they knew and loved while watching the game. Apple has addressed this issue by letting users switch over to audio from home or away radio broadcasts. (This is also a feature of Apple’s MLS streaming package, though right now I believe it’s home radio only.)
There are a few minor catches—aren’t there always? According to Apple, “Radio broadcasts for the Texas Rangers are available only for the team’s home games. In Canada, radio broadcasts are available only for Toronto Blue Jays games.” Tough break for Canadian fans who want to listen to non-Blue Jays broadcasters of non-Blue Jays games, and I don’t even want to know about the contractual issues that preclude the Rangers radio voices from being used on away games.
But for everyone else, this is a great step forward for Friday Night Baseball, one that uses the multi-stream, multi-layer potential of streaming media to improve the product and improve audience choice.
Friday Night Baseball returns April 7 with Rangers-Cubs followed by Padres-Braves.
HBO has another hit, Jason Kilar has some advice for Bob Iger about the future of Hulu, and Sports Corner returns to discuss the ongoing saga of regional sports networks bankruptcies and the future of streaming sports.
