{"id":38157,"date":"2023-01-13T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38157"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:03:31","slug":"setting-the-bozo-bit-on-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/13\/setting-the-bozo-bit-on-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Bozo Bit on Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.metaobject.com\/2023\/01\/setting-bozo-bit-on-apple.html\">Marcel Weiher<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=34371438\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.metaobject.com\/2023\/01\/setting-bozo-bit-on-apple.html\"><p>What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice recordings for my choir and voice lessons that I want on my iPhone and Apple Watch. How hard could it be?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>iTunes used to be if not the, then certainly a flagship app for Apple.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>With this, I noticed that I hadn&rsquo;t actually expected better.  I knew it <em>should<\/em>\nbe better but I hadn&rsquo;t expected Apple to actually make it work.<\/p><p>In other words, I had set the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bozo_bit\">Bozo Bit<\/a> on\nApple.  By default, when Apple does something new these days, I fully and quietly expect it  \nto be broken.  And I am surprised when they actually get something right, like Apple Silicon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s so sad how iTunes used to be amazing, and then it got bloated and dated but we <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/macos-10-15-to-break-up-itunes\/\">worried<\/a> that the replacement would be worse, and indeed it was.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/27\/ventura-issues\/\">Ventura Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/12\/the-apple-services-experience-is-not-good-enough\/\">The Apple Services Experience Is Not Good Enough<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/17\/apple-music-feedback-made-it-to-cook\/\">Apple Music Feedback Made It to Cook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/05\/apple-music-macos-review\/\">Apple Music macOS Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/10\/macos-10-15-to-break-up-itunes\/\">macOS 10.15 to Break Up iTunes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/01\/why-doesnt-apple-music-let-users-search-for-composers\/\">Why Doesn&rsquo;t Apple Music Let Users Search for Composers?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcel Weiher (Hacker News): What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice recordings for my choir and voice lessons that I want on my iPhone and Apple Watch. How hard could it be?[&#8230;]iTunes used to be if not the, then certainly a flagship app for Apple.[&#8230;]With this, I noticed that I hadn&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-13T21:02:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"e08bc22c-9200-49ff-8026-101eb0b765cb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-13T21:03:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A4IvCLJIASf-AJhAesLdlyw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,2223,157,1816],"class_list":["post-38157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-music","tag-music-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38160,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38157\/revisions\/38160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}