suddenly newton

Steve Jobs once said that Apple starts from user experience and works back to the technology that makes it happen, instead of starting from the technology and working towards user experience.

in other words: never technology for its own sake.

Apple isn't trying to be the planet Jupiter in orbit around a tiny moon called Oculus.

lkrupp said:

mini LED, micro LED, are they the same thing? I’d never heard of mini LED until lately.

Not same. The names happen to sound similar, but very different. Mini-LED is yet another backlight technology that implements many local dimming zones. The screen itself is just a LCD.

micro LED is an emissive screen technology that is capable of producing lighted pixels without a backlight, so it potentially has all the advantages of OLED, but brighter and with no risk of burn in.

Toortog said:

So did Apple seriously screw up estimating how many orders there would be, or is this a Apple Marketing department scheme to hype up people into ordering before it even gets in the hands of the public and word gets out about it.   

The oldest conspiracy theory in the forums.

Right, I think you don’t fully understand this. Apple only curates what can be sold through the App Store. You can use you CPU to mine cryptocurrency in a web browser. Apple doesn’t prohibit your CPU usage fundamentally.

But seriously, that’s a good behind the scenes look into the production of Unsane. I had the iPhone 7 and thought the camera was really superb. And cutting it on a MacBook, as opposed to the Pro eats into the narrative that you need expensive equipment for editing. I’m sure the final master render was done on a more powerful machine.

 The Florida Project was also shot on iPhone.

Coming soon to Android: “magic peninsula”

So if I want to remain out of these databases, I should disable location services for all apps and websites that want it.

“Dangerously behind” 

Why is everyone in Android world so worried about Apple’s competitiveness? Don’t they dismiss Apple as a marketing company selling overrated and overpriced devices to dumb, non-techie consumers?

Tile's complaining is weak sauce. What have they done to make their product better? What have they done to differentiate? To compete?
Amazon Alexa and Google Home show that you need Apple didn't share its technology to win. Oh, but that kind of competitive advantage costs millions in R&D to develop you say? True. I didn't say competing against one of the world's biggest companies would be cheap. Get started, Tile. When Apple started, they started from zero. They were small. They had to compete with the Atari, Commodores, and IBMs of the era. Steve Jobs didn't whine that IBM wasn't sharing its secret sauce, he sought to leapfrog IBM. I don't understand the entitlement these days from companies like Epic and Tile, but whining won't solve their problems.