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Confusion reigns over iPhone 11 Pro RAM, benchmarking tests
It’s not harder to compute a wider field of view, its impossible. If the lens can’t see grandma outside the frame, it can’t compute her. Yes you can take a panorama but that’s a different action than pressing the shutter button. It is most likely for 3 reasons 1) people take group shots and can’t back up enough, so you can get shots you wouldn’t otherwise get. 2) more useful for AR applications 3) the ultra wide doesn’t use OIS so prob a cheaper than adding telephoto camera package which doesmjtomlin said:wood1208 said:Does anyone know why Apple choose 2 wide angle back camera instead one extra wide and one tele photo ?Although he was referring to the dual camera system on the iPhone 11, John Gruber from Darirng Fireball mentions...Fundamentally it’s a bet on the power of computational photography — it’s easier to zoom in digitally than it is to compute a wider field of view.But as was also mentioned on stage... that extra wide lens can be used in really tight shots, “When there’s no room to back up.”
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Apple's 'Mother Nature' sketch was a complete dud, and didn't belong in the iPhone 15 even...
couldn't disagree more, enjoyed it considering the dry material. Conveyed in a fun way.
nothing "illegal" about non union work, period. if they wrote it before the strike then they don't break union rules, if they use a writer who doesn't belong to union, they don't break the rules, if a union writer decided to do it non union and not support his union then he/she broke the rules not apple. either way, these are union rules and having nothing to do with legality or US law.
as for your supporters, "virtue signaling" hahahahaha, ahhhhhh amazing how even educated people can be brainwashed. you don't have to care about the planet but ask yourself why are you triggered when others do???
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Jony Ive is no longer consulting for Apple
The reductionism and simplistic thinking of Jony era vs. now is hilarious. He did great work with Steve, yes but The iPhone was not successful solely b/c or even b/c of Jony’s design. It was a marriage of design and innovation of new tech. Multitouch, eventual App Store, selfie cam, etc. iPad was a big iPhone. His design was sold to you with world class marketing. His accent on all the videos, the slow shots of close details and scripts about Al-You-min-ee-um, chamfered edges etc.
Yes those were all premium and advanced Apple but if the phones tech didn’t exceed everything else on the market then it would not have mattered.
Debating fine details and products form the last 5 years in relation to Jony is useless. Let’s be clear about something, Jony checked out 11 years ago when Steve passed. Period. He was devastated and burnt out. It was well reported that he wanted to return to the UK. That would have been a disaster at the time for Apple stock after losing Steve. The company and the design team would have been fine but the stock would have suffered so he was paid a boatload and allowed to do what he wanted not leave and move back to the UK in order for the market to not be spooked.
He worked from his elaborate studio at home in San Fran most of the time and designed the Apple Park and given free rein including designing solid gold edition watches that he could give to celebrities to make his life interesting.This is not a criticism, just the situation and a well planned succession plan from cult of personality to established company that isn’t rocked by a certain individuals whims.(be it Steve or Jony)
Steve even started this plan by having Tim be his interim when he was sick.
Why do you think Jony had a contact to “consult” when he left? This was a 11 year soft landing/extraction plan for the market. He didn’t do anything significant for this contract as he didn’t for the last 11 yrs. Stop deifying him and thinking Apple will crash without him. It hasn’t and it won’t. If it were to stumble it wouldn’t be b/c Jony was no longer here.There is no one to deify anymore, that’s a good thing and has been Tim’s plan for the past decade. Tim is an operational genius who has handed that to Jeff Williams, Craig is the charismatic & amazing software head, Johny Srojui is the genius that beat intel and Jaws is a world class marketer. They need all of it. Craig is the face, Jeff will be the head, Srojui is the ace in the hole and Greg Joswiak sells the whole package.I wish Jony the best but this is not news and if you were paying attention you saw this coming a decade ago so stop pretending this means something.
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Apple Silicon Macs are needed for consumers and pro users alike
With all due respect you are not a professional if you are using the same machine 10 years down the road. 5 years would be the outset and even at that point you are starting to think of the next machine. Also you are probably not selling the machine you are using it as a backup or limited task machine. Again if you are not a prosumer but a professional, then you make a living off your computer. Five years from now that $10,000 computer cost you $2000 a year. That is not much if you are making a profession off of it and that assumes you get zero value or $ from it 5 years from now.swineone said:
When you invest a substantial amount of money in some pro gear, you hardly do so with the expectation to use it for a couple of years and then discard it. In fact you sell it for a good fraction of what you paid for it. That's part of the economic calculation of buying a piece of pro gear.lkrupp said:AppleInsider said:
So do expect some complaints, and also expect some bargain Intel-based Mac Pro machines to turn up on eBay. However, it's not that anyone need ditch their current Intel Mac, nor should anyone should put off buying one if they need it now.
Something I've never understood about some users. Your current machine is running perfectly fine, it's fast and it does what you want it to very well. Now something new and different comes along and somehow, someway , the machine you are using becomes an obsolete piece of crap not worth keeping. And you blame Apple for bringing out a new technology before you are damn good and ready for it. You rage at Apple for making your perfectly fine machine 'useless'.
Now suddenly your pro gear uses a fundamentally incompatible architecture, which will be supported for "some (unstated amount of) years". There's no guarantee developers will continue performing software maintenance for the Intel port, or even Apple itself, for that matter. Now your expensive pro gear may not last as long as you initially planned, and by the time you sell it, it will probably be worthless. I mean really, if you paid upwards of $10,000 on a Mac Pro recently (quite easy with CPU, RAM, storage and GPU upgrades), who's going to pay more than, say, $3,000 or $4,000 for it in three years, knowing the fate of Intel hardware?
Compare that to other pro gear. I work with electronics design, where you can get upgrades for decades-old test equipment from the likes of Keysight, Fluke or Tektronix. An HP 3458A DMM, the gold standard in high-precision metrology, is a design from 1989 (IIRC) which holds its value quite well, and is still sold today with minimal, user-facing changes only. The lens mounts for DSLR cameras are the same for decades, you can use a good lens from the previous century on a current Canon or Nikon camera. I know computer technology is faster paced than this, but still, the timeframes in the pro market are quite different from the consumer market.
If Apple really cared about its pro users, they should have stated Mac Pros will be supported by macOS and pro apps for, at the very least, 5 years, and for them to keep a modicum of resale value, 10 years. They could go even further by requiring fat Intel/ARM builds in the Mac App Store for a similar amount of time, but macOS and pro app support for 5-10 years is the bare minimum.
You cant compare obscure electronics and camera lenses with the professional computer market. You admitted that computers are faster paced, great. You cant just tack a "...but..." on your argument and to make it hold up. The industries are not the same, period. No correlation, don't try to make one out of thin air.
No computer from 10 years ago is worth anything meaningful.Many want faster, & cheaper for our gear to last forever, but what we all should really want is the curve of tech to be so step that your gear is obsolete in 2 years b/c the new gear is so much better and then you just price that in to the work that you do. If you could do your job in 4 hours instead of 8 b/c your machine was 10 time as fast, would you pay another $10k in 2 years? If you are a professional, the answer is gladly.
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'This would be bad for America,' Tim Cook tells ABC News about creating iPhone backdoor
Thats the issue, those are NOT contradictory statements. The govt wants a back-door through the operating system SO THAT it can retrieve information from a "specific" phone. Your iPhone & my iPhone and Syed's iPhone are all the same. The were MASS PRODUCED, they are one and the same, the only difference is you put your info in yours and I put my info in mine. There is no UNIQUE way to access data on only one("specific") iPhone that won't access data on ALL iPhones. and by the way the scary part should be that we are even talking about this issue in regards to this case. If they want to do it for this case then they will use it for literally thousands if not millions of cases. He & his wife are dead, the FBI has admitted he wasn't working with anyone else, this was his work phone not his personal phone(which they destroyed b/c that would have been where the info was), etc. etc. I could go on. this case has nothing to do with this "specific" phone. The next time some kid brings a gun to school or is even heard threatening to shoot up the school then the FBI & local LE will want access to the phone to see how he is planning it and who he might have been talking to about it. bye bye privacy.Richard Hylton said:Why is it so difficult to state what it is that the government wants. It has been reported that the government wants a back-door through the operating system and, contradictorily, that it seeks to retrieve information from a specific phone.
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Former Oculus chief: Apple Vision Pro is the VR industry's new Northstar
It's a joke, b/c if he has the "bona fides" then certainly has the cash to drop $4000 and he would keep it to see where it is going on a regular basis as the software develops. Truth is he is (mostly likely) android centric so has no use for an iOS centered device and his returning it has no bearing on the device. He just used it for this review to try to stay relevant.grandact73 said:
Why is it a joke? Just because it goes against what you want? He formed his opinion and decided it wasn't worth it to him.red oak said:“He returned his headset”. What a joke
Was he part of the original Android team that literally copied iOS?
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Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 17 years ago today
and that the iPad was now the world's most popular video player "by a large margin".There was a bit of a difference though. Using the latest 2006 figures available, Jobs said that the cell market had been worth a billion dollars. Apple was aiming for 10 million dollars in the first year.
Apple's aims for iPhone sales now seem modest
I think you mean IPod not iPad in the first reference and clearly the graphic say 1% = 10M Units NOT 10M dollars.
