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It's salty because it's made up worry. What does CarPlay have to do with DRM? DRM isn't mentioned once in that link and I have no clue what point you are trying to make.

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Can you play your own purchased music easily with an aux cable like we've been doing for decades? People have been making mix tapes for 40 years. Now you can't do that unless you listen to the track of the day and the promo for the new arsenal of podcasts, and did you know that french fries taste good and they are 300 meters to your west?

I want to listen to what I want to listen to. They want us to listen to what is most profitable.

DRM keeps me from playing my files. It treats them like viruses. It extends the walled garden to choose what art I'm allowed to appreciate.

It's not rights management, it's restriction. The name is a lie.

Seriously, what are you even talking about?

If you put your music in the Music app or any other app that supports CarPlay you can play it. CarPlay is not required, it's always an "also" in cars. You can always Bluetooth to the car or buy a car that has an aux port. I'm thoroughly confused as to why you think CarPlay is DRM or what that has to do with Bluetooth in this discussion.

I am a simple man. I play a track. That track is played. No commercials, no promos, no greyed out tracks because of licensing issues. I press stop. The sound stops. The toolset is cheaper. It lasts longer. It sounds better. It's a standard that works with a wide span of devices. There's no security risks. There's no hijacking the attention span.

You do you, man.

What world are you living in where Apple Music (subscription or just the app with your own tracks) or something like a paid Spotify subscription don't give you this? We can ignore the subscription and look just at the Apple Music app which supports DRM-free music without issue, has no commercials, no promos, no licensing issues. You are describing an experience that everyone can have today, using CarPlay, using Apple Music or any other music playing app that has CarPlay support. At worse just skip CarPlay and Bluetooth or Aux-in to your car (with the dongle).

Well, for one, there's no hole anymore to plug in these perfectly good headphones. For two, I didn't need an internet connection to play local files. Three, I didn't need 3 different battery emplacements, one was sufficient. Four, I don't have to leave my front door unlocked to look out the window (bluetooth attack surface). Five - Spotify and probably apple music inject content I don't want to listen to, don't respect my shuffle choices, and sell everything I listen to and linger on to anyone with a cent and a pulse. Six - My headphones will last at least an order of magnitude longer than your AirPods. Seven - When i open up my stock music player, it won't need to 'update' (where updates are acutally prebuffered crap (remember that U2 album?) and title cards and features I do not require for my application experience.

There's a reason Apple stopped making the iPod. It wasn't for your benefit. It was to monetize your habits, and enslave your consumer urges. I know people who have lost 5 digit music collections, because Apple just paved over them, knowing they'd line right up to buy it all over again.

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