Really? Spatial audio has been solved here for years, the last thing we need is Another Competing Standard that isn't open and relies on specialized hardware.
> If you have an Android phone, good for you. It doesn’t sound as good as Apple’s ecosystem.
If you have an Android phone, there's a pretty good chance it has an internal DAC, which puts it's objective audio quality above the latest iPhone. Sorry to all the psychoacoustic nerds out there, but AAC is still not lossless. And lines like...
> Yes, if you aren’t on Apple Music you are an idiot.
...don't do a whole lot to reinforce their argument.
If you're going to be objective, be objective. If you're writing an opinion piece, be opinionated. Crossing the two leads to head-scratching rhetoric like this, which makes me wonder if it's written by a fanboy or someone who genuinely does not understand hi-fi and spatial audio. I'd like to believe it's neither, but little in the article substantiates that.