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People tend to focus on the 'black bars with video playback' and blind themselves to everything else.

There are basically two ways to reduce the black bars. Use the phone folded or add an extra panel (tri-fold). 

The reason most folding phones. re squarish is obvious. It's the best way to double your screen space.

Once people accept that, you begin to see the positives. More screen real estate,multi-tasking with side-by-side apps, editing (text, photos, videos, spreadsheets, presentations...).

And also the possibility of putting video overlay content like subtitles into the space of the black bars and freeing the video space up for the video itself. That is a system/software implementation.

Black bars on folding phones are there for good reason and if it's a deal-breaker for anyone they can choose not to buy. 

As stated here, tablets have had black bars for years and no one complained. Now we have 'tablets' that can be folded to fit in your pocket and suddenly it's an issue. 

One other possible 'solution' is to change the physical aspect ratio of the folding device. 

Something Huawei has done with the Pura X. There is now a folding phone for basically every preference. 

randominternetperson said:

nubus said:

dewme said:

There’s nothing inherently wrong with Tim or any of the other current crop of presenters when it comes to “getting the word out.” But Applle doesn’t have Steve anymore and nobody could capture an audience quite like he could

Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, AMD, AWS,... they all do live to get that extra energy. None of them have Jobs.

And who watches those? Who is blown away by those?

Developers! Developers! Developers! 

Live it would have been the real deal. The audience might have even been able to get a whiff of Balmer's pheromones as he started oozing sweat all over the stage!

Just wouldn't have been the same if it was recorded. 

Huawei's 3D small object modeling demo with the AR panda is another that was perfect for a live event (and extremely risky). 

I don't know where the insistence on Huawei is coming from as I've commented on it in the comments previously. This is the third time so I'll copy and paste from previous comments on the same subject.

"Honor was divested from Huawei a few years ago as a result of sanctions.

AppleInsider said:

Apple will not be able to intervene in an upcoming antitrust hearing that could affect its $20 billion annual search deal with Google, because its lawyers took too long to make the request.

Google search on an iPhone

A hearing in April will continue the Department of Justice's antitrust action against Google over deals it made with Apple and other companies to be the default search engine in web browsers. However, despite it being something that could endanger billion-dollar payments made by Google to Apple, Apple won't have much influence at the hearing at all.

A Friday ruling by the D.D. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a January ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta that Apple could not present live testimony or conduct any cross examination of witnesses during the hearing, reports MediaDailyNews.

Apple filed a motion to the court on December 23, asking to be a participant in the remedy trial due to the massive sums at stake. However, Judge Mehta believed Apple was too slow, only intervening once it determined its interests were "no longer adequately protected" instead of at the start of the case in 2020.

While Apple can't do anything live, the company can still submit written testimony and file friend-of-the-court briefs. This does still give Apple input into the hearing, if not to the level it would prefer.

Unheard at hearing

In August 2024, after a ten-week trial, a court determined that Google had violated antitrust law with a monopoly in advertising and search. This included payments by Google to Apple to make Google the default search engine in Safari, cementing its position for iPhone users.

The payments were sizable, including one from 2022 that transferred $20 billion to Apple.

Following the ruling, in October, the Department of Justice started to make recommendations to break up Google, such as by forcing it to sell off Chrome. A concept the DoJ formally filed with the court in March.

Google has also offered its own remedies to the court, which includes the possibility of changing contracts with "browser companies" like Apple. This could allow the browser companies to implement different default search engines on different platforms, and allow for changes to the default search provider ever 12 months.

Apple, however, believes that such changes could be a major concern for the company, with SVP of Services Eddy Cue insisting in December that Apple had no interest in creating its own search engine. It would rather continue to work with Apple instead of spending "billions of dollars" and numerous years to create its own.

In January, after being told it cannot be involved directly, Apple filed a motion to delay the whole proceedings.

On Friday's ruling reconfirming Apple's limited actions, the appellate court added it would finalize the order on March 28, giving Apple time to further review it.



Read on AppleInsider

Apple has had those billions of dollars (basically money for free) and all the years to get into its own search game. 

The cynic in me says it chose not to move forward on that precisely because of the Google Golden Goose. 

melgross said:

Rogue01 said:

Will it be a live keynote, or another awful cringe-worthy video?  Maybe they will be apologizing for Apple Intelligence instead of trying to push out more half-baked features.  They already blundered with Siri, unless they try and do damage control and more promises of features that won't be ready with iOS 19.

I miss the days when Apple released new software and the features they previewed at WWDC were actually in the release version.  Instead all we get are 'coming soon' and then 'maybe next year'.  I stopped watching the videos because they were nothing more than reading press releases and spec sheets.

The videos are much better than the live presentations. Those tended to ramble and took much longer. Well, I remember that Apple was criticized for trying to get everything in the first release. Be more like Google and Microsoft people would say, and release features when they’re ready and don’t rush them out for an announcement.  Give me a break!

There's a reason people still go to the theatre or a string of concerts by the same group. 

A live presentation (quirks and all) will always top a pre-recorded collection of ads dressed up as keynote. If you have live people in the audience, do it live!

Pre-recording is lifeless and completely sterile.