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  • Apple reaffirms privacy as a tentpole feature in Siri after lawsuit settlement

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    P.S. Well written article Wesley H.  The discrepancies in standards of expectations you include are worth re-iterating. 
    Wesley Hilliardjas99watto_cobraAlex_V

  • Apple reaffirms privacy as a tentpole feature in Siri after lawsuit settlement

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    mikethemartian said:
    Apparently it wasn't so frivolous given Apple's willingness to settle to prevent the discovery from coming out in open public court.
    If it’s frivolous and not true nor accurate, it can mislead people and harm the trust in the brand.   So settling out of court is less expensive than a trial and prevents it from being in the headlines for one to four or more years sowing doubt that is undeserved.  The years in court is more harm the three weeks of news about settling.  It may be unfair, but so is what they’d lose in a protracted trial. The money they save might go into developing a feature you enjoy.  Or into still more privacy vigilance and privacy tools for your protection.   

    The discovery is out.   A third party creepily stole user data.  Apple does better than the competition in policing Apps, and yet gets criticized for holding up App approval while looking for loopholes an unscrupulous developer might try to hide.   

    The lack of translation to Portuguese of the EULA was mentioned as a problem.  So , again I say, that discovery is out.  And probably being worked on by Apple across 100’s of thousands of Apps across umpteen languages.  

    Don’t assume settling is any kind of admission of guilt.  This weighing the cost vs benefits is standard practice in tort law. It would be malpractices to not consider whether you would likely loose more than you gain. Yes, principle is a weighted factor, and evidence shows Apple weighs principles more heavily than many large tech companies. 
    lotonesAnObserverjas99watto_cobraAlex_V

  • Blackmagic's new camera for Apple Vision Pro content has a hefty $29,995 price tag

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    I see the biggest challenge in creating Vision Pro content in new ways of story telling.   
    It’s not just depth but with a wide field of vision, you have competing things for you eyes to look at.    
    That’s why not all cinema content is suitable for, or cannot really take advantage of iMax.  

    It would take the talent of studios or directors like Pixar, James Cameron or Lucas Film to invent new storytelling to take advantage of immersive content.   
    You could even track the eyes and have content change along numerous insights and perspectives.  Then you re-watch it and create a diverging or more revealing  storyline by examining different visual elements the second and third time and you get new insights and plot twists. 

    Immersive is most effective when the camera is in close.  Telephoto bringing you apparently closer yet doesn’t register depth.  Telephoto shots taken from further away tenders to flatten shots.   
    This  is used to great effect in portraits whereby features are foreshortened such as large noses etc.  Taking portraits from say 20 feet instead of 5 feet away are more complimentary.   That’s why portrait lens tend to called such in the 85mm to 105mm short telephoto range, also with wider apertures such as 1.8 to 2.8 f/stops.  It’s not the lenses, but rather the distance they afford for intimate and complimentary portraits.  The wide apertures afford bokeh, bring the the subject to the forefront of attention, blurring distracting backgrounds. 
    In sports, the closer you are the faster ther angular velocity and you might miss catching something that happens so fast and passes by your eyes before you register it—and you’re less likely to get the big picture.  
    Current televised sports has many cameras with cuts in real time in an expensive mobile or on-site studio.   
    Having many of the expensive immersive two lens cameras would initially be not just expensive in cameras and talent, (cameras making this Black Magic look inexpensive), new directorial skills need to develop.  Initially the best use case would be immersive replays, although, would that justify buying an expensive headset for viewing.   And would additional costs be recovered under current subscription pricing or would competition drive adoption.  Lets hope it’s the later.   

    Certain sports are better for immersive content.  You’ll see more overhead cable rigging for cameras as equipment
     is developed and deployed such as you see in overhead cables with cameras over American football games.  It’s difficult as you can’t get in the way of high kicks or high passes.  The same goes for basketball plus not annoying the live audience in higher seats with more cable trolleyed cameras overhead between the action and the high seats. 
    ForumPostdanoxwatto_cobra

  • New Magic Mouse said to fix everything that's been wrong with it for 15 years

    jellybellyjellybelly
    The reason the charging port is on the bottom is due to the original removable battery option. The charging port is in the same location as the latch for the removable battery cover. That allowed Apple to save $$ by keeping the industrial design almost identical between the two different versions. 
    While the the charging cable goes in the same location as the previous battery chamber, that was NOT the primary reason for the charging cable located so you couldn’t keep using while charging.   

    The main reason is cables then and even now have a rating for amount of flexing stress on the area from cable going into the connector at the end of the cable — and at the intersection of the receiving and inserted connectors.  

    Wired mice often failed at the connection point as an eventual end of life. And intermittent failure is hugely frustrating and gets increasingly worse.   

    Imagine that Lightning cable or USB cable not ending up charging your mouse, or your phone or losing data transfer or corruption. That’s so exasperating! Ugh!!

    With the advent of quick charging, Apple added a reliability factor for both the mouse and not incidentally, the cable that might also be used for other mission critical work.   

    5 minutes to get a day’s charge is seriously not a problem* as I had anticipated.  I greatly appreciated the break even when working through the night and furiously trying to get a design job ready to send a PDF proof, or NCAA sports photos ready to submit to one of the University’s sports writers in time before their 7am posting time.  

    I found I re-started my work with a clearer head or emptied distracting bladder or cup of coffee injected for the last push. Mostly a refreshed brain and body.    Most often while charging the mouse, I’d run up and down a set of stairs a few times and be so refreshed back in the saddle.  
    And I never had a cable failure if I used that cable for something else. 

    This is the strongest case to keep cable charging into the belly button.  Qi charging on a mat that could be a mouse pad might solve the interruption in the future.   

    *While I found constructive use of five minutes, you don’t have to.   Eg. What if you’re collaborating with client or your art director through screen sharing? Then you have to think ahead and make sure you have a charge to get through a session of unknown length reliably.  

    For that reason, Apple should make an option of a mouse charge readout that a user can opt-in, for mission critical reliability and session continuity. 

    But do thank Apple that all your cables are wearing at a similar rate and all last a very long time, rather than a cable you leave in the mouse for a day or days or weeks on end, accumulating motion at the connector and getting an intermittent failure —and being a common cable, getting mixed in with other cables and adding risk and exasperation to other uses. 
    watto_cobra

  • How to use the new text effects in Messages on iPhone with iOS 18

    jellybellyjellybelly
    Before this story disappears, could the author or AppleInsider staff add screenshots for the ways to invoke the effects and screen recordings of what the effects look like.  

    Of utmost importance, tell us if the bold, italics, underline, and strike-through, shown on the only screenshot, will work with RCS.  It seems very unlike Apple to have a panel that’s part RCS and part iMessage only—especially without some sort of labeling. Most Apple users I know, exchange text messages with many Android friends, associates, customers, vendors and/or relatives—not exclusively with Apple users.

    1.) And does that style part of the panel use RCS or is there some other method needed to style with RCS? 
    2.) What is the known or guesstimated adoption rate of RCS like on both iOS and Android?
    3.) When did Android users first have RCS available?
    4.) What does an Android recipient with RCS see of my styled text?—Android screenshot?
    5.) Would it be wise to wait to use bold or italics or other two styles until a later date?  
    6.) How would someone without RCS receive the text message— as plain text? 
    7.) Or with a style code in front of text?

    Thank you in advance if you can expand the article to offer much more information.
     
    roundaboutnowAlex1N