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  • Apple TV+ has a lot of content coming in 2024

    ClarusClarus
    Two Franklin series? They should just combine "Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin" with "Franklin":
    It is about Benjamin Franklin's journey during the American Revolution. Being 70 years old and having no diplomatic training, he struggles to fit in with the Peanuts gang, until Franklin discovers the neighborhood kite competition. He teams up with Charlie Brown to build an innovative new "lightning kite" and an even greater friendship.



    williamlondonroundaboutnowdewmemattinoz

  • Rumored iOS 18 Siri boost will be driven by massive acquisitions over years

    ClarusClarus
    gatorguy said:

    Apple said Retina Display which was qHD or QVGA.
    Part of your unhappiness may be from over-simplifying at least one of those terms.
    Because you definitely over-simplified Retina.

    You mentioned Retina being the equivalent of this or that standard fixed resolution. That is plainly wrong. Retina has never referred to a specific hard resolution, that is not how things work now.

    Retina is more about the Device Independent Pixel (DIP), which is an industry-wide concept driving standards like CSS.

    The DPI resolution of the DIP is not a single fixed number. This is where you ran into trouble. The pixel size of the DIP is corrected for display pixel density and viewing distance, and the way they quantify this consistently is defining the DIP as a specific angle of view. This allows an object to be displayed at a constant apparent size to the eye, because the DIP corrects for screens being viewed at phone distance vs computer distance vs billboard distance.

    That is why Retina for a phone is a different DPI resolution that Retina for a laptop screen.

    The other way your analogy falls down is that if you look through all the desktop and mobile Retina screens Apple has made since 2012, the DPIs are all over the place! And many do not exactly match your QHD or QVGA!

    The uninformed view is that Retina doesn’t mean anything, but the informed view is that all those DPI values make total sense after you learn that they are consistent with what the DIP size should be at each device’s viewing distance.
    mattinozjony0

  • Plugin now required to use most Pantone Colors in Adobe products

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    Greedy executives from Pantone company. Adobe needs to create their own color swatches and ditch these blood sucking leeches. 
    That is an impossible solution, Adobe has little influence here. Pantone is a proprietary industry standard used well beyond software. It was used in design, commercial printing, textiles, etc for decades before personal computers ever existed. A more realistic solution is everybody switch to another widely used color system, but none of them are open, all developed by private companies.
    muthuk_vanalingamravnorodommarklark

  • Apple fails bid to get 'Think Different' trademark restored in EU

    ClarusClarus
    bonobob said:
    Good.  The ungrammatical “Think Different” has always annoyed the hell out of me. 
    It’s supposed to. The fact that it annoys you means it worked…it was effective in getting your attention, which was the entire point of them doing it that way. Bad ad grammar did not start with Apple, it has been a known branding strategy industry-wide for decades.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/advertisers-attract-attention-with-grammatical-errors-1.2764884

    The other reply about it being easier to trademark is true too. Many “normal” words and “correct” phrases were already trademarked by somebody long ago. And your lawyers will tell you that your multinational brand must be legally available in all countries you do business in, which makes it even harder.

    It was probably much easier to trademark “Flickr” than “Flicker”. Also this is why Amazon is full of nonsense-word brands; a Chinese tech gadget company will never be able to trademark “Apple” in the US but can get away with selling “Reddfruit” USB cables.
    ronnravnorodomwatto_cobra

  • Elgato Stream Deck review: A Mac accessory you didn't realize you need

    ClarusClarus
    I have other ElGato gear like the CamLink and the Key Lights, and they’re mostly good products. But I could not justify a Stream Deck. I don’t think the value is really there. I mean come on, all that money for just 12 buttons? With a USB-A cable that doesn’t plug directly into most current Macs? That the article says needs to be plugged directly into a Mac, when many Macs only have as few as 2 USB-C ports? (I run everything through the USB ports on my hub so I only have to plug 1 cable into my Mac) With no HomeKit integration whatsoever, a big complaint of mine with their wireless Key Lights?

    For those who have an iPad or iPhone, there are many better solutions that cost much less. I use Touch Portal, an iOS app offering a fully configurable programmable grid of buttons to control everything from OBS to Photoshop. You can set up many more buttons, they don’t have to be square, and can be much bigger than on a Stream Deck. As an iPad app, it works wirelessly, not using up any USB ports. The article says the StreamDeck doesn’t travel well, but Touch Portal is not a bulky box, it travels as thin as the iPad it is on. Sure there is a Stream Deck app, but Touch Portal is a cheap no subscription price. The iPad is already on my desk, the StreamDeck would compete for the space on my desk. The ONLY thing Touch Portal gives up to Stream Deck is the tactile feel of the real buttons. In all other respects, if you have an iOS  device, an app like Touch Portal is a much better deal.
    rundhvidwatto_cobra