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  • New 'Shot on iPhone' experiment video focuses on water imagery

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    entropys said:
    Imagine how much better it would have looked filmed in landscape rather than portrait.
    Not as effective to the target audience IMO. It is pretentious to assume landscape is the only valid orientation for video.

    I found each arrangement in this video to be compositionally engaging. 
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  • Dashboard has been permanently pulled from macOS Catalina

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    I really miss it in my day to day uses while I work on SwiftUI. From having quick access to multiple clocks, multiple weather, stocks at a glance...

    I used it many many times per day...
    dualie

  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

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    netrox said:
    Love how amateurs complain about the costs of Mac Pro... it's for Professionals making lots of money... not for amateurs living on a few hundreds. iMac Pro is for prosumers. Mac Pro is for professionals. iMac is for consumers (but they can do all the things that pros do but at a much slower speed). 
    It is whacky the idea people get in their heads about "pro" this "prosumer that" and "consumer over there. I know many "pros" (as in people making 300K+/year) using an Mac Book Air. What a shack idea.
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  • Apple condemns British spy agency group's proposal to evade message encryption

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    gatorguy said:
    racerhomie3 said:
    I am sure this key would ‘leak’ on the black market just like how CIA’s or NSA’s malware is being to damage American cities.
    I don't see how it would "leak" on the black market as there's no backdoor modification to any of Apple encrypted messaging service, nor are the Brits asking for one. They simply want Google and Apple and the rest to be legally required to add GCHQ as another recipient of the target's still encrypted message. Apple who whoever would still be the company responsible for actually doing it if I read this correctly. Certainly not something I would advocate for, but still far better than a weakened encryption service. 

    In fact I'm wondering if this is already in play in a couple of other countries.  It would explain how Apple iMessage has escaped the same fate of the other encrypted messaging services who have refused to cow-tow in China and Russia. At least in China it is no longer Apple iCloud nor an Apple-controlled service, rebadged as GCBD iCloud and run by the Chinese. Simply inserting themselves as an additional recipient of still-encrypted iMessages would be the so-simple fix. Russia may bve in the process of doing something similar. 
    What good are billions of encrypted messages without the keys held on the end devices?
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  • Editorial: With sales falling backward, Google's Pixel 3a takes a desperate step into chea...

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    gatorguy said:
    OMG! It's about time, Google is plainly doomed now. Desperation has set in. 
    Google’s hardware efforts have been doomed since the disaster that was the Nexus One. They simply don’t understand hardware design. 
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