[Feedback] "Genius Playlists" Feature

Jeff Mitchell kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com
Thu Sep 18 13:05:56 UTC 2008


Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Gleb Litvjak <blaster999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 22:03:04 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>>> I have recently been to Apple's iTunes's website, and I read about a new
>>>> feature in iTunes 8 that could be nicely implemented in Amarok. It is
>>>> called "Genius Playlists".
>>> How silly.  They should stop throwing around "genius" everywhere.
>> I remember M$ used to throw around the word "smart" (and if M$ calls a feature
>> smart it probably is really stupid). This will pass.
>>
>> BTW, they should've called it "iGenius" - it would match their ego ;)
> 
> Nah, remember that long-running ad campaign where they associated the
> apple logo with B&W photos of smart people? I expect much more
> "genius" to come out of Apple.

It irks me when I've had to deal with "Geniuses" at Apple stores.  Half
the time they are not very smart.  The other half, they are smart, and
boy do they know it.





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