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@MitchW Gads! 😲 That’s enough for 24hrs I think! (not discouraging you, tho! 😀)

@erchanda And why wouldn’t they, considering what they’re about?

I continue to fight for recognition of Frisbeeanism, y’know, when you die your soul goes on the roof and you can’t get it down, but there’s a lot of head wind there, too… ❤︎ ❥

@danlyke thanks for keeping this convo alive. We are getting down to important fundamentals here and you obviously have given this more than a little thought.

Expect more here later, and thanks for so far!

@BenSouthwood re News, it is a pretty deep offering on publications I guess, although some key ones req supplemental subscription. But sharing is awful. It’s a hermetically sealed version of the search-site.action URL thing—anyway the reading experience is not always bad. re Music, again, like so many of their services, it can be maddeningly half-baked. But sometimes, sometimes, the recommendation engine gets me right in the feels.

But the whole iCloud+/OS’s & InformationAgeLifestyle thing, with all its rather elegant fast integrated reliable simplicity, which has simply accrued over the decades, well, it is well worth it.

Important Note: spontaneity, continuity, partitioning, and live archive are the driving forces of my cyber desires, at least lately. And I have a long term investment in their hard-and software…because I’ve used plenty of other stuff over the years. 😉

@BenSouthwood Yes, I have since inception. News sucks, seems anti-rss (surprise) but you get a lot of pubs included. Music is mostly okay unless the latest changes to the UI are infuriating. iCloud storage works without issue but is sometimes inscrutably slow, and, along with Music, will sometimes claim that items are not available or up to date when the file system says otherwise. TV is quite good, content is almost too good. I would prefer more movies to series but what are you gonna do? Photos works very well, although out of system archiving is not straightforward. Arcade has some delightful diversions; playful and beautiful to behold, but not what most gamers think about when they think about gaming. Family works pretty well but shouldn’t be called Family. Keychain is better than any 3rd party service, now. I might sound a bit negative about it all, but there are lots and lots of other ostensibly small details that together provide (me with) real value.

@baldur Thank you. This is great material. Hitchen’s Razor applies here: “That which can be submitted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

Sidenote: [ I moved a comment about url copying to its own post. ]

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