LOL....are you, with a straight face, trying to claim that Gruber is objective? You can't even be serious with that.
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Apple Highlights iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max Reviews
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Not too much in tech these days is worthy of a one year upgrade cycle, two years is stretching it, we are fast approaching three year cycles.
Yes I know I don't need to buy it, but if they're charging top dollar, then at least include a fast charger/more ram! It's 2018 for god's sake. I'm upgrading for free anyways..
I don't think anyone will dispute that he is a fan of what Apple does, but there is not a part of me that thinks he would write something positive about Apple or one of their products in an area where he doesn't actually hold that opinion. Guys like John Gruber on the Apple side and Paul Thurrott on the Microsoft side can, at times, be the most influential critical voice against the brand that they primarily cover because you can trust them as an honest arbiter of opinion on their given topic in addition to their built-in relationships at each company.
Are there things about Apple that John Gruber likes that you or I do not? Sure. And the opposite is probably true as well. I doesn't make those opinions wrong or any less honest.
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Don't need them. The Apple Watch 4 is actually selling.
These selected reviews are needed to help push XS and XS Max sales, which some estimate will be "lower than expected".
Good reveal. Thanks. Therefore: don't expect unbiased reviews from Mashable, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, The New York Times, Best Products, Hypebeast, Tom's Guide, Dailymail, TechRadar, Hardwarezone, Sydney Morning Herald, and photographer Austin Mann.
I think they're waiting to do that next year when they introduce that rumored third rear camera. They'll redesign it alongside the newer sensor/lens module. What I would really love to see is the 2X become a 3X and the new module be something that is even more wide angle. Since the new one is 26mm I doubt they could pull off 13mm for 0.5X with decent corner image quality or that "fisheye" look, but perhaps something 15-17mm would be possible.
I'd like 3x or something in between 2x and 3x, but I guess it would be 3x to avoid being confusing.
2x is ok, but not great if you're trying to capture something far away and I find 3x to be better even for portraits.
it's not always been true. they reset the rating for every app version release, which makes sense. an app can be hammered for bugs and the bug is fixed, than the app doesn't deserve the low star rating that it had before. You can click through and see lifetime review as well.
Yeah, any time I want to zoom in on something, I still find myself needing a bit more zoom. 2X basically just makes it a more normal lens (52mm, "normal" lens is usually 50-55mm). If I got to pick I'd do 4X personally, but that might be too much for most people.
3x would be around 75 so great for portraits. I guess 4x will be too much for the average user, I think I'd only seldom use it.
Yeah sometimes when I'm walking around campus I'll see a hawk in a tree and I end up having to crop in on it if I can get close enough before it flies away. The result is not bad but not great. Too far away for portrait mode, and 52mm doesn't offer enough natural bokeh at that focal distance. Decent enough for an Instagram snapshot after I edit it in Lightroom Mobile and that's about it.
Sometimes I'll take my Sony a7R III mirrorless camera with me when I'm hiking but I don't often carry a big telephoto lens unless I have my bag and since I just switched systems from Canon my 100-400L isn't compatible (and the glass is old and doesn't work well with newer sensors anyway and needs a $400 adapter which slows autofocus) and I have yet to purchase the Sony equivalent 100-400 GM which is $2500 (though I did rent it and it is optically excellent). Would be nice to get some better casual nature shots with my phone because I like spending time outside and it's all wilderness behind my house, but I doubt it's currently possible to get focal lengths like that in such a short flange distance between the lens and the sensor—which are effectively sitting on top of each other.
There was a time when people were much simpler and calmer. Devices took years for the next upgrade. Think like the playstation 1 was released like '94 while PS2 was released 2000.
Its impossible to have new upgrades on yearly basis, human technology advancement does not move that fast. We won't make a new discovery each year. So my advice to companies and people is to calm down and do a hardware upgrade every 3-4 years. Thats how things used to work.
I think we can see a lot more advancement on the software side than the hardware side. iOS outlived its purpose as a BlackBerry/Nokia competitor and it is time to move to a new revolutionary post-pc era OS.
Its impossible to have new upgrades on yearly basis, human technology advancement does not move that fast. We won't make a new discovery each year. So my advice to companies and people is to calm down and do a hardware upgrade every 3-4 years. Thats how things used to work.
I think we can see a lot more advancement on the software side than the hardware side. iOS outlived its purpose as a BlackBerry/Nokia competitor and it is time to move to a new revolutionary post-pc era OS.
No, Apple seeded review units and the AW4 reviews are now published.
Also, I doubt XS series sales are lower than Apple expected, I guess we’ll know that’s not true if Apple meets their revenue guidance for the quarter. Apple knows better than analysts, who are almost always wrong about demand, production and shipments whenever they claim sales are weak.
I never said he was EMPLOYED as a Software Developer. And there ARE other kinds of "Engineers" than EEs...
But you ARE wrong. Tim DOES know how to Code.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/01/22/apple-ceo-tim-cook-coding-college/
Not really true and it's just matter of apps not yet taking advantage of the larger screen.
Safari already takes advantage of the additional screen size on certain pages.
It will just take some time for developers to optimize the larger screen. Patience.
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Tim Cook is also a freaking genius. Even when Jobs was alive, he had the highest salary at Apple and was consistently awarded the most stock. Jobs couldn't have thought more highly of him, even stating Cook is a "Better negotiator than me" and well, putting him in charge of Apple as his last business decision as CEO.
Cook is one of the smartest people in business today and is universally recognized as such by people who know. He saved Apple from supplier hell by optimizing and simplifying the supply chain in a way never seen before in tech.
Cook literally was the genius behind Apple. Now he's grown into a fantastic CEO.
Calm down. what are you talking about with Engineers? I never said what EE stood for, but perhaps Electronics Engineer would be my guess- silicon - Electronic Engineer and software - Software Developer from the original posting.
Tim cook took some coding classes in college, doesn't make him a software developer. No more than me taking Psychology at uni makes me a physiologist.
The smaller the focal width the wider the angle. So a typical SLR street photographer uses 35mm while a typical portrait photographer uses 50mm and a sports photographer may use 600mm. A landscape or architecture photographer may use 21mm or so.
As for why, it’s simple geometry, but I can’t draw pictures here...
You're looking thru a peephole...can you see more (wider) if you're close to the peephole (short focal length), or far away (long focal length)?
Yeah that will work.You're looking thru a peephole...can you see more (wider) if you're close to the peephole (short focal length), or far away (long focal length)?
They had for a long while, Larry Ellison and others. That suited Apple in getting OS X polished, software acquisitions such as Emagic’s Logic now Logic Pro or Logic X, spawned a huge amount of new software. We’ve passed that a long tome ago. Personally I’d rather the Engineers and software devs working on the core OS systems and hardware vs sipping coffee on the board talking about who’s cottage has what.
Since the original iPhone all camera glass covers have been flat. I know the annoyance you’ve mentioned. Especially noticeable in sunlight.
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Sounds more like Apple infringement on Legos Bionical product line
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You're looking thru a peephole...can you see more (wider) if you're close to the peephole (short focal length), or far away (long focal length)?
Thank you. That makes sense.
Just to correct this for anyone who may add this into their vocabulary about photography, you mean focal length. Focal width is in reference to parabolas.