重點在於 Spotify 服務透過蘋果的平台會有 30% 的抽成,但 Apple Music 因為自家服務而不需要:
To illustrate what I mean, let me share a few examples. Apple requires that Spotify and other digital services pay a 30% tax on purchases made through Apple’s payment system, including upgrading from our Free to our Premium service. If we pay this tax, it would force us to artificially inflate the price of our Premium membership well above the price of Apple Music. And to keep our price competitive for our customers, that isn’t something we can do.
Taking daily averages, stutter decreased 6-10% for the BBR group. Bandwidth increased by 10-15% for the slower download cohorts, and by 5-7% for the median. There was no difference in latency between groups.
The basic MP3 decoding and encoding technology is patent-free in the European Union, all patents having expired there by 2012 at the latest. In the United States, the technology became substantially patent-free on 16 April 2017 (see below).
If the longest-running patent mentioned in the aforementioned references is taken as a measure, then the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, held by and administered by Technicolor, expired.
The three exceptions are: U.S. Patent 5,878,080, expired February 2017; U.S. Patent 5,850,456, expired February 2017; and U.S. Patent 5,960,037, expired 9 April 2017.
Bose Corp spies on its wireless headphone customers by using an app that tracks the music, podcasts and other audio they listen to, and violates their privacy rights by selling the information without permission, a lawsuit charged.
這次打算控告的產品包括這些 (這邊提到的 Zak 是原告):
Zak is seeking millions of dollars of damages for buyers of headphones and speakers, including QuietComfort 35, QuietControl 30, SoundLink Around-Ear Wireless Headphones II, SoundLink Color II, SoundSport Wireless and SoundSport Pulse Wireless.
編號可以記一下,之後可以拿來追蹤:
The case is Zak v Bose Corp, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, No. 17-02928.
DAC2's USB 1.0 mode doesn't work with Linux kernel 3.8.x, but USB 2.0 does. So switch it to USB 2.0 and forget about it. Next, I figured that the audio was simply being muted in some instances. The solution is to open a terminal window, run AlsaMixer, hit F6 to configure the DAC 2. Even though their levels cannot be altered (they're fixed at 00), the first two items must be unmuted in order to get any sound:
如同文章裡說的,USB 1.0 模式 (會抓到「Benchmark DAC2 USB Audio 1.0」) 是不會動的,而 USB 2.0 可以 (會抓到「Benchmark DAC2 USB Audio 2.0」),但播放時沒有聲音。
解法則是使用 alsamixer,進入後按 F6 選 Benchmark DAC2,將前面兩個用 m 給 unmute 掉就好了: