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Canva's Affinity deal will shake the Adobe status quo
Deleted. Honestly not well written. Sorry for the stub.
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European Commission grills Apple and Google on app store risks and ad practices
I am not a big fan of Apple app store proliferation of in-app purchases, nor the fact that the practice matured and was popularized on it.
Every little app these days is trying to become a "subscription" app... I do not want to pay a subscription for a simple 3d scanning app... This is ridiculous and please regulate this. The value added for a sub service should be substantial before it is allowed.
These are things that consumer protection legislation needs to address.
Bigger things... How about stop allowing huge multinational tech companies and startups wreck and grab entire industries worldwide??? Google took over advertisement ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE! Fuck that...
Now openAi/google/adobe want to take over industrial art/creative writing etc... F*^@ that!
Airbnb is messing up the global housing market with short term rentals.. Uber is fucking over taxi companies wherever they are available, and the fare is WORSE than before with taxies.
See the trend here? Disrupt an existing market with superior tech and ease of use... Throw tons and tons of "free" money to lure in people thinking it is cheaper and better, after market is saturated and the "old world industry" out competed, raise prices and gouge consumers. THIS is what EU and every sensible country should be regulating... And yes, that does include Apple.
IF regulation is non existent, do you really think there is a limit to how much companies are willing to unfairly gouge customers? I highly doubt it. If history or current reality around the globe is any judge, companies (..and certain countries) do not care if people are starving or houseless due to excessive cost of living...
This is the reason why some companies have bigger coffers than most countries. They are taking over entire industries/sectors of business across the globe...
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Can Apple innovate if iPhone remains the biggest slice of its revenues?
The original Mac OS
What has changed, truly changed...
Classic Mac OS, and the classic macs. were intuitively designed. The idea was to make computing more human and intuitive to grasp. I didn’t "get" computers until I sat down with a PowerMac 8100/80AV as a young man. PC’s had DOS and win 3 at the time…
The Mac was a revelation. Everything was represented by an icon. System extensions were objects you could pull out of the system and trash if you felt like it. For a visual creative, the mac was amazing. I felt like I was on-top of the tool called a computer. I understood it and it worked with me. Sure, I could brick it by digging too deep, but fixing it was always doable and rarely felt like I was out of my depth.
I wont pretend that there weren’t stability issues, there for sure were… And. there-in was the rub... MacOS got too old and the codebase wasn’t going to be able to take the classic mac into the future.
I still think that classic MacOS is the most human OS to ever exist, it was the lovechild of Steve Jobs, created during the most humane period of his career. He was a young idealistic guy, he pulled in hippies and very progressive tech nerds, that wanted to make a computer for humans. And they did…
Mac OS X - the return of Steve Jobs.
Steve returns to apple as a man with considerable different experience. He is not a young idealist, he was always a controversial character, but this time, he comes in wanting to take apple to the top. I am not saying he didn’t want that at the start, sure. SJ probably wanted apple to be very successful, but he was young. This time he is a mature businessman with ideas on how to take apple to the top…
How can you trace those two ways of thinking to how the mac has changed?
Making the best computer for a human to use, versus making the best, most successful company are two very different philosophies. The old apple was going to make the best computer, and thought that if you build it, they will come… The new apple was going to make the most money. And when you view the world through that lens, you will not be making a tool for humans.. You are looking to make the human be at the centre of a "business model" And I believe there-in lies the rub.
Apple isn’t making the best computer for a human to use now… Because they are not in that business, they are in the business to make the most money possible. You do not do that by putting the human 1st. You do that by putting profit 1st, and when you look at all the issues that have rose with apple products after the 2nd coming of Jobs and subsequently the Tim Cook era… You see that the problems come directly from that.
Apple cares about profit, not about you as a human-being trying to use a tool.
We old heads know how it felt to use a Macintosh, yes sure… It was expensive to buy, but it would get out of the way and make you able to benefit from this amazing new tool.
I suspect Apple, along with Ms and whatever other tech giants exist out there, are bound to always make the wrong decisions, because their goal is always to make as much money as possible on YOU. They will always make bad decisions due to their profit motives always getting in the way…
So, Linux and open source is likely the only real way forward. Unless Apple can be changed on such a base level that it once again is looking to make tools for YOU… But I wouldn’t hold my breath…
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Ming-Chi Kuo: Investors should be cautious about Apple Vision Pro launch hype
Ming-Chi Kuo sounding like an Apple employee here…
Every product has to be applicable towards an actual need, do I believe there is one?
Business:
Inexpensive trackers that are visible in space would make inventory easier, if the trackers can hold information and interface with other rfid chips, even better. (Apple has bought a company that was doing x-y map coordinate markers for web-like content) This function could be done without trackers I guess.
Meetings, this one is up in the air. It SHOULD work… But I would give it some time to mature.
Games?
Cheaper games as opposed to FB expensive ones, should be a draw, if no cheaper games… Then Apple arcade might see a use. No G5 modem likely means some will try Pokemon Go or similar games with a mobile router. I am guessing a proper pokemon Go wont come until AVP is truly mobile.
I think the price is as it is to curb demand, also to position the Apple Vision PRO in a Pro pricerange (nothing pro about the ssd size of 246gb though..) Will it see enough adoption? My guess is that it likely wont see a huge lineup of people, aint no reality distortion field active and the economy is soso…
I hold the belief that this is an interim release to blow new life into AR and position for the near-mid term of tech breakthroughs and development, and it already succeeded there… It lifted facebook/meta stock up to pre-meta debacle leves, as I was sure it would. Tons of tech companies are positioning to be in the much desired opposition to Apple. In short, AR/VR is buzzing with investor money and re-newed development. (Not even Apple can start a product from complete scratch. They need a supply-chain to exist)
I am not sure Apple will succeed ofc, but I have no doubt that just the fact that Apple has entered the lobby is a landmark step towards a successful AR/VR future. For me personally, I have followed the Oculus story from the start, Apple made small good quality displays cheap enough for that to become a thing, and now we come full circle. Its cool. I have loved sterescopic stuff since I was a kid in the 90ies, and donned those huge VR goggles and played that wonky VR ptraodactyl game.
I think there will for sure be usecases that are superiour to a 2d screen. Just on the quest 2 there is a painting app that is quite frankly amazing. Just hold for a M3/M4 release in a couple years, that one will be the real deal.
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What's Apple's Vision Pro killer app?
You would be dense to bet against anything that makes porn that much better…
Viagra? Oh barely got its sales up at all… Yeee, this one is a slam dunk.
This is a krass point, but it is very much the truth of it all, denying human natures influence on something like this is short sighted. And if it is true for one thing, it is true for a myriad of other things.
I have a painting program in quest 2 that is better then photoshop by miles. Why? it is like painting in real life. The brush acts like a real brush. With better processing and fidelity it will be even better.
I don’t care to defend AR or VR anymore, I dont care what other people think. I know I will find a use for it.
Tech is lining up the next few years to make AR/VR crazy good and compress the package by alot. -
Apple Vision Pro streaming media landscape is complicated at launch
The situation for 180VR films/"content" is that it does not exist.
Outside of Ai being able to generate the missing stereoscopic pair on legacy content, which it might be able to, somehow. I do not see how Netflix/Paramount/youtube/crave etc matters…
Apple is doing the right thing so far, they release stereoscopic recording on iPhone Pro, great. They are positioning AVP as a spatial content production system. Great.
Apple can be the platform of choice for making 180VR film/Content. Or atleast be inistrumental at defining what is needed to make it.
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Defining the Pro in Apple Vision Pro: Who is Apple's target professional?
I am an animator, I do art. I have a degree in pedagogy aka teaching.
I know for sure that spatial videos are superior for instruction, if the 3d can be actual 3d, which it can. Either frame by frame equivalent 3d capture, or rigged 3d. The amount of detail available to understand instruction is infinitely higher. Especially when you can pause and look at the capture in detail. Invaluable.
I will be looking into making apps for instruction.
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Adobe hikes Creative Cloud prices with a rebrand no one asked for
Affinity has an indesign equivalent. Publisher. I switched out from adobe. Never looking back...auxio said:
Does it work well with print houses which only use Adobe?inkling said:If what you need is an equivalent of Adobe's Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, check out what Affinity offers. One option is apps for all platforms—Mac, Windows and iPad—for a one-time payment of $164.99. No subscription cost. That's about what Adobe charges for a couple of months rent.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
I had the problem recently where I couldn't get Pixelmator to export to .ai format (guessing this disappeared when Apple bought them). So I tried exporting to PDF, but it wouldn't preserve the layers when the print house opened the file in Illustrator. Even though reopening the PDF in Pixelmator showed the layers just fine. Smells like there's Adobe lock-in, and so I'm wondering if Affinity figured out a way around it.
Publisher spits out a good press ready PDF print file, with all the options, for a publisher, went well even with the ipad version.
Recently did a poster and a folder. Surprisingly it worked really well on my Ipad pro m2. Much faster than a imac pro 2017 w 32gb ram.
Affinity has the illustrator equivalent, PS and indesign. They work well together, and you can buy it for all platforms. There is a period to getting used to their UI, but they work very well. They also have a generative Ai fill to patch up and get rid of unwanted stuff. Works ok!
OBS!!! I managed to leave the creative subscription plan wout paying their stupid fee. By upgrading to a different tier and taking advantage of the 14day trial cancellation option... The whole ordeal is the worst consumer experience I have ever seen. It cemented my decision to never look back, they are absolute grifters... -
SiriGPT: Apple's chiefs hope to add full chatbot functionality to Siri, eventually
There is an odd discrepancy here, why isn’t Microsoft expected to make their own chatgpt? They use openai, apple uses openai. If anything, apple has a better implementation. Why these double standards?
While impressive, its crap. 40% wrong answers is too much for it to be relied on, I do not understand how people act like it is so great?
The image/video generation stuff is not ready for primetime, even though it shows promise for something down the line, its just not the hyped up thing everyone thinks and says it is. Everyone is pretending like you will be able to just hit a button and get an oscar level film out of it. No, it can’t do hands, it can’t do backgrounds without doing obvious mistakes. Even if they fix those issues, it does not know how to act out a performance you would want to watch.
That said, I am not saying it isn’t capable of transforming alot of how the current tech landscape and even how some industries work. But you must understand the limitations and abilities.
Nvidia using it as a denoiser and eventually a replacement for pushing 3d graphics at all, shows what the promise is down the line.
LLM’s and image generation is not AGI. A fantastic parrot yes, but still a parrot. Would you trust a parrot to answer the phone for you? That seems to be the expectation currently, that you can take this amazing parrot and fire people and let it do their job. Wow…
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Trade war escalations between Trump and China to significantly impact Apple
The uncertainty is disastrous. Ukraine war caused the previous administration to start down the route of forcing tech companies to get out of China, and they started the chips act that has been widely thrown around for bringing TSMC fabs to US. This along with pandemic forced Apple to invest heavily outside China, in India etc.
Now Trump is in the kitchen and making a much deeper mess...
I guess Apple has to start fabs in the US, but the problem is that there are not enough educated engineers/people in the US to do it. The Mac Pro had a seriously arduous process to get going in the US, but they did it.
TSMC says they have to bring people from Taiwan to US to make the fabs run.
You need to invest in education and engineering, I have no doubt America can do it, but it is not something you can start from 0 to 100 instantly.
Imho Apple should go a different route, they should invest heavily in 3d Printing and go after the IKEA method(but Apple quality). If Apple makes the Apple store an assembly store and start selling Apple 3d printers, they can circumvent alot of the trouble AND build up domestic manufacturing in one swell swoop. AND also tend to the admins wishes of things getting made domestically.
Invest in the maker movement and repair movement, it makes sense. This also gives the AVP a reason to exist, as it becomes the best assembly/instruction manual you could ever want.
If this forces Apple to re-think their business model to 3d-printing and propping up the maker movement, then this whole mess could accidentally be a good thing. Think Apple made 3d-Printers that can make functional products. Possibly good for environment, possibly good for Apple. Possibly a win for customers.
