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Live Photos Called 'Best New Feature,' Composed of Separate JPG and MOV Files

senohpoxas88 said:
Have you personally tried this? I couldn't find this written anywhere.
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Yes, someone sent me a live photo and it works like that on an iPhone 6. Movement in photo view, no movement on lock screen.

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I would rather use Touch 3D (developed for years...) as a Brand New Feature because other companies would take much longer to "copy" this feature from Apple.
 
Shirasaki said:
I would rather use Touch 3D (developed for years...) as a Brand New Feature because other companies would take much longer to "copy" this feature from Apple.
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3d touch is confusing for stupid "monkey see monkey do" people.

"PHOTOS COMING TO LIFE" however...

but I agree, as a geek to a certain degree, 3D touch is the most impressive new feature.
 
rockosmodurnlif said:
Also, I think it's amazing that my iPhone 6 will be able to view Live Photos but won't be able to take any. Must be the Haptic Engine that powers it.
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I mean, capturing =! displaying...

"I think its amazing my laptop can play 4K feature films, but can't edit and render them"

I'm not implying Live photos is as complex, but it might be something trivial that's preventing them to implement it well enough to bother...
 
ErikGrim said:
Nope. Of course it knows you are taking a picture, you have the camera open! And it continuously record and discard the frames until you hit the shutter. Then it keeps the 1.5second before and the 1.5 seconds after.

For the record Zoe only keeps .6 second before you press the shutter and then you have to keep still for a further 2.4seconds. No wonder HTC shut down Zoe.com
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no it didn't, you pressed the little blue button for 3 secs of video while u were snapping shots off.. then you could do all sorts of fantastic editing with the clips, or have them auto montage with your pics.. fantastically simple with great results...

but let me guess, apple have taken something clunky and uintuitive and added their special polish...
 
I think apple saw vine and thought hey lets just emulate that experience of micro video rather than previous attempts at the concept on android phones etc zoe and nokia living photos. It's a naff idea that most won't use and the last 1.5 seconds will involve peoples feet as they move the camera away. I still think the burst shot feature is more powerful as you can pic the photo you want.

If they had combined the two it might have been a much more compelling feature, so for a burst photo you get to pic the shot and then have video around that selected photo with sound.
 
Live photos are kinda meh, the best new feature to me is the 3D touch. It gives us the right and middle clicks.
 
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sterl320 said:
It's funny. Before these reviews, Live Photos was overlooked and written off as just a gimmick, but now its being considered the best feature so far. All of the reviews that have gone out so far has praised it.

And I love it. It just makes capturing memories more fun!
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Still a gimmick - not nearly as useful as drawing and checklists in Notes, though not exclusive to s-phones.
 
RockSpider said:
Did you actually look around and do some research on this feature before posting, you couldn't have, otherwise you would have mentioned Zoe.
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Not before your reply. I have now. And it looks like a decent feature. It appears to be better executed than Living Images was on the Lumia.

However, the fact that I had to search for it, and that you had to point out its existence says a lot about it. It failed. And I believe the article below describes perfectly one of the reasons why Live Photos will succeed (at least marginally) while Zoe and Living Images failed.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2491005,00.asp

The fact is that, while Apple doesn't always introduce the underlying technology first, they seem to have a way to make it appeal to the masses in a way that their competitors cannot seem to do. And that is based in more than market share. That is based largely in simplicity. The simplicity of the way that Live Photos will work as opposed to these other two products will be the main reason why it succeeds relative to them.

Simplicity is simple, by it's very definition. But creating simplicity is incredibly complicated. And for some reason Apple's competitors cannot seem to find the path to doing so.

I read a very interesting book by Ken Segall a couple of years ago, called Insanely Simple. It's very insightful into the passion for simplicity that drove Steve Jobs, and that I believe informs Apple's strategy. Frankly, I don't know why every one of their competitors doesn't make it required reading for their employees.
 
Live photos combined with the News app bring us one step closer to this:

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willmtaylor said:
Joanna Stern calling Live Photos "the best new feature" is enough for me to discount her review altogether (honestly, though, the rest of the review wasn't great either). I'll stick with good ol' Walt:
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Meh.. Different people, different age.
 
Max(IT) said:
Yes, Htc had it ... and nobody cared.
I'm sure that Apple 's implementation will be welcomed and enjoyed by customers, as usual.
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Maybe cause when others do it, it was a small feature of one app, but when Apple does it, Apple advertises it as the best new iphone feature with a huge ad budget to match. Advertising works.
 
macfoxpro said:
iPhone haters are SO PISSED OFF right now!! ha ha
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Part of the reason for the hate is cause when Apple copies, the media applauds Apple for the best thing since sliced bread. But when Android phones have slide to unlock, Apple starts a thermonuclear war.
 
naeS1Sean said:
I'm embracing Live Photos. I think its cool. My wife makes the cutest faces, so it will be great to get pics of her with it. lol. I love telling her I'm taking a photo when I'm actually taking a video. ;)
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that's rather sweet!

I'll be doing the same with my other half, except she makes a lot of bad facial expressions. They are my favourites because they make me smile!
 
garylapointe said:
The additional frames only pay attention to the differences. If it's me standing in front of a building it doesn't need 45 copies of the building, only the parts of me moving need to be saved.

Shoot some video on your camera. Shoot 30 seconds of your backyard but just leave the camera sitting there. Then shoot 30 seconds in the backyard (without much moving in the background), but constantly move the camera around (just spin in circles), you'll have drastically different file sizes even though it's the same quality and same length. The still video should compress much smaller, you could even try shooting the still shot but walk in front of the camera a few times or just stand there and talk, it'll be bigger than the still video but still smaller than the wildly moving one...

Gary
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That was a really useful example than you.

Had no idea that's how video works.
 
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koruki said:
This feature really got me, it's so elegant and meaningful, especially with children. I work in the I.T industry and have a process for backing up all the photos on the iphones in the family. My next question would be how to properly back these up in file form without using iTunes and iCloud. I don't want to be reliant on just iCloud as I have my current photos and videos backed up daily over Photosync to a mirrored NAS that syncs to Amazon Cloud. iTunes backs up in a system image file which is no use for viewing photos one by one.
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You just turn on iCloud Photo Library. Not sure other cloud services will save the file rightly.
 
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