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  • iPhone 16 has a new Camera Control button -- Here's everything it can do

    Using that new touch-sensitive button as a moving dial surface is novel, and might be great.

    However, using the force-touch button to take a picture can cause your phone to MOVE as you shoot it.

    Back in the day, when I first got an iPhone (5S) and started using its camera, I first use the option of the physical button on the side to activate the image-capture; as one would do with a full stand-alone camera.
    But I found that some shots had a slight motion, as the force to press the button moved the phone a bit. So, I gravitated toward the on-screen button.

    Buttons on a real stand-alone cameras must be calibrated so perfectly to prevent such movement.
    Maybe Apple figured a calibration for this new button that will just as nice.
    appleinsideruserwatto_cobra
  • Big screen battle -- iPhone 16 Pro Max vs iPhone 15 Pro Max features compared

    Using a button to take a picture can cause your phone to MOVE as you shoot it. --You finger, pushing the button, very slightly moving the phone downward as the capture is happening.

    Back with my first iPhone (5S), I used one of the physical buttons on the side to activate the image-capture; as one would do with a full stand-alone camera.
    Both me and my family found the some shots had a slight motion, as the force to press the button moved the phone a bit.
    The shutter button on any stand-alone camera is very loose and perfectly sensitive so that device-movement when held in your hands is not a factor.

    Due to the phone moving slightly when I used the side button on an iPhone (as that button on the 5S required some force), I switched to the on-screen red button.

    So, I wonder how this new face-touch button will play out.
    Might be just fine.
    The original iteration of this idea didn't work out for some of us.
    watto_cobra
  • M3 MacBook Air & MacBook Pro may not debut until October

    Is this article suggesting Apple would release a 13” M3 MacBook Air, but leave the 15” MacBook Air at M2?
    If so, I don’t get why Apple would do that.
    They’re the same computer, just a bigger screen in one of ‘em.
    And, most people ready to purchase the 15” Air would wait if they saw the M3 was in the 13”; they’d know the M3 is just around the corner for the 15”.

    Silly.
    Alex1Nd_2Ofer
  • Compared: M2 iPad Pro vs M1 iPad Pro

    I have never been an "if only Steve were still here" guy. UNTIL NOW. From the new iPad updates (with iPad Pro still having camera in wrong place) to this stupid dongle to keep the Pencil 1.0 in play, ...oh my gosh; how awful. I mean, ...would Steve Jobs have overseen such things? Wow: BAD
    curtis hannahmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobrawilliamlondonelijahg
  • Which upgrades are worth it for the Mac Studio

    The Studio makes sense for the iMac Pro users. It is in the same price range and offers big improvements over the last model. iMac 27" users, on the other hand, are out in the cold. Apple has no equivalent option for them. It seems odd that Apple has turned its back on home users who want more than the lowest end product.
    Just get the base model studio, and use your own monitor.
    It's faster than a 27" iMac, and you're not wedded to buying a new monitor every time you need a CPU refresh.
    I am having a hard time believing this based on Apple's history of "What's next." I did not bother to look up the exact years of advancements, but if FEELS like Apple monitor upgrades have gone something like this: 2009: Just buy an HD monitor, and you are good to go for years, mating it with a new PowerMac later. 2013: Oh, now we need Retina monitor with the new Mac, because that what it supports and is the cutting edge. 2016: iMac with 5K Retina. Since Apple is now advertising that their Mac Studio can run multiple 8K videos at the same time, ...um, is the must-have 8K monitor next? Or is it super mini LED things...
    williamlondonMacCatHatter