I read a pure garbage article from Gawker written by a dumbfuck who doesn't understand (or doesn't want to understand) technology saying that Apple is spying constantly:
Apple said in its Live Photo page that "And you can view Live Photos on your other Apple devices, too." I view the example on a MacBook Pro, I can hear any sound. Neither I can hear the sound with an iPad Air.
Why would Apple (or Samsung or Google) even want to listen? Barring massive improvements in voice recognition, noise filtering, and content processing, 24 hours of conversation, background noise, and snoring per user per day isn't going to yield anything useful.
Now, any device with a microphone and camera might be exploited by a hacker or by an intelligence agency to monitor you, but "Hey Siri" makes that no more likely than it was before.
I just had a thought about Live Photos. While watching the keynote, I knew that I liked the idea, but I couldn’t put my finger on why the implementation was rubbing me wrong. It just hit me: they’re not photos. I knew that when Phil said it (...captures a second before and after the shot... ... with audio... ...but they’re photos!), but it needs to be said again.
I realize that they’re a bit harder for the average person to pull off, but cinemagraphs are more what I would consider a “live photo” and they’d cut down the file size even more.
I dunno. If anyone could implement a dead simple cinemagraph creation utility, it’s Apple.
EDIT: Great, the two images I really wanted refuse to link.
I just had a thought about Live Photos. While watching the keynote, I knew that I liked the idea, but I couldn’t put my finger on why the implementation was rubbing me wrong. It just hit me: they’re not photos.
I'm not sure cinemagraph is the right word, but these need a better name than photo (or "animated GIF" for one common type on the net) for sure.
I've also always thought that it's weird that the gallery app on my iPad is called "Photos," when it contains videos, too.
On the Android side of things, Android 5.0 changed the name of the photo/video viewing app from "Gallery" to "Photos" (copying Apple again!), when it seems like they actually had the right name (or a right name) in the first place.
They sure are. I’ve been in love with the idea since I first found them, and I really wish Apple would allow the use of CUSTOM animated lock screens so that I could use them on my iPhone.
Now, these are pretty big; that’s the thing. Still, I wonder how they compare to a Live Photo.
EDIT: Okay, what? They didn’t show up when I linked from the external sites, so I pulled them down and uploaded them manually. STILL don’t show up. It’s not their file size. I uploaded a 10 MB+ gif months ago and it displayed fine. Here it is, in fact.
.I dunno. If anyone could implement a dead simple cinemagraph creation utility, it’s Apple
Flixel's app seems pretty easy to use and is on iOS.
that said, outside an external utility for making live photos I think I have figured out a way to make them far more interesting and perhaps also a bit cinemagraph.
actually I'm so enamoured by live photos I bought a domain to set up a gallery for them, see how I go with that but hopefully it becomes a sharing space for iOS people wanting cool lock screens
Looks Live Photo will have a disruptive effect on Windows and Androids worlds. It will either force them to upgrade software to support it. Or it will coerce their users to switch to Apple devices.
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Nice concise way to put it.
I read a pure garbage article from Gawker written by a dumbfuck who doesn't understand (or doesn't want to understand) technology saying that Apple is spying constantly:
http://gawker.com/the-new-iphone-is-set-to-record-you-whether-you-ask-it-1729857048
This guy does not use an iPhone. Otherwise he should already know that iOS will always ask the user to permit an app to use the mic and/or the camera.
Apple said in its Live Photo page that "And you can view Live Photos on your other Apple devices, too." I view the example on a MacBook Pro, I can hear any sound. Neither I can hear the sound with an iPad Air.
Be cool if an app could tie into that audio stream. Or even just Siri could do so.
A, "Hey, Siri. Record." Feature could be very, very handy, especially if you're being stopped by police or find yourself in a dicy situation.
Why would Apple (or Samsung or Google) even want to listen? Barring massive improvements in voice recognition, noise filtering, and content processing, 24 hours of conversation, background noise, and snoring per user per day isn't going to yield anything useful.
Now, any device with a microphone and camera might be exploited by a hacker or by an intelligence agency to monitor you, but "Hey Siri" makes that no more likely than it was before.
I just had a thought about Live Photos. While watching the keynote, I knew that I liked the idea, but I couldn’t put my finger on why the implementation was rubbing me wrong. It just hit me: they’re not photos. I knew that when Phil said it (...captures a second before and after the shot... ... with audio... ...but they’re photos!), but it needs to be said again.
I realize that they’re a bit harder for the average person to pull off, but cinemagraphs are more what I would consider a “live photo” and they’d cut down the file size even more.
I dunno. If anyone could implement a dead simple cinemagraph creation utility, it’s Apple.
EDIT: Great, the two images I really wanted refuse to link.
I just had a thought about Live Photos. While watching the keynote, I knew that I liked the idea, but I couldn’t put my finger on why the implementation was rubbing me wrong. It just hit me: they’re not photos.
They sure are. I’ve been in love with the idea since I first found them, and I really wish Apple would allow the use of CUSTOM animated lock screens so that I could use them on my iPhone.
Now, these are pretty big; that’s the thing. Still, I wonder how they compare to a Live Photo.
EDIT: Okay, what? They didn’t show up when I linked from the external sites, so I pulled them down and uploaded them manually. STILL don’t show up. It’s not their file size. I uploaded a 10 MB+ gif months ago and it displayed fine. Here it is, in fact.
Flixel's app seems pretty easy to use and is on iOS.
that said, outside an external utility for making live photos I think I have figured out a way to make them far more interesting and perhaps also a bit cinemagraph.
actually I'm so enamoured by live photos I bought a domain to set up a gallery for them, see how I go with that but hopefully it becomes a sharing space for iOS people wanting cool lock screens
During the event I seem to recall Apple showing a lock screen with the Live Photo of the kid… and it was animated.
Sorry, should’ve specified; my iPhone. 6. This is a 6S-only thing, isn’t it?
Looks Live Photo will have a disruptive effect on Windows and Androids worlds. It will either force them to upgrade software to support it. Or it will coerce their users to switch to Apple devices.