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

ignatius345 said:
Remember before the iPod how there was the Creative Nomad, and the Archos Jukebox and so on? No, nobody does.
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Oh, I remember them very well. I actually had a portable MP3-player and a couple of years later a cell phone with MP3 player built in (the excellent - for its time - Siemens SL45) before the iPod was even available.

I have no issue with Apple copying and refining earlier ideas. What really grinds my gears though is that they always present it in a way that implies that they have actually invented the idea/function - and that it is something brand new that no-one has done before.

And most of the press plays along every single time - it is not unusual to see the same reviewer trash something one year and then praise something that is 99% similar from Apple the next year.
 
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If this was the best feature, I wouldn't have upgraded. I will be turning this off and it'll never come back on. This is the most pointless feature of them all.
 
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McCool71 said:
I have no issue with Apple copying and refining earlier ideas. What really grinds my gears though is that they always present it in a way that implies that they have actually invented the idea/function - and that it is something brand new that no-one has done before.

And most of the press plays along every single time - it is not unusual to see the same reviewer trash something one year and then praise something that is 99% similar from Apple the next year.
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Do they really? and also, who cares. It's be the first or be the best or be different.
They're different (to a degree, having a closed system) and they usually have the best implementation.

Reviewers are also rarely praising bare function; the implementation is what matters.

Also always remember, geeks are rarely the primary target demographic.

This isn't anything new either, Edison stole **** from Tesla all the time :p
 
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Corrode said:
Coming from a background in photography, I find this feature interesting but I think it will never break out of being "gimmicky". There are ways to portray movement, action, and most importantly emotion through a still frame so, in a way, I don't think it's anything new. I also edit every photo before I post it and I assumed from the beginning that you won't be able to edit Live Photos like you can with a single image.

For sharing on social media and in messages, this will be pretty fun though. It's always been a little too difficult to make a GIF until now.
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It's 100% a gimmic. I enjoy photography myself, I'm not a pro by any my means, but the first thing I would do is turn that off. As you said, there are ways to take still images to illustrate movement/motion/action. That's the beauty of photography.

What this is, is the phone taking both a photo and video and combining them as a single file. Apple says it's not a video, but if it's in motion, yes it is a video.

There is a clear separation between still photo and moving video. Apple can say what these things are all they want, but the fact remains.

I'm not saying it's a bad feature, I'm sure the little kiddies will enjoy it and have fun with it until the newness of it has run its course and once they realize each of these things are consuming twice as much storage space. I'm sure I'll check it out myself by but it is clearly a gimic feature.
 
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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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It worries me if this is the selling feature of the 6s...
 
LordBeelzebub said:
I'm not saying it's a bad feature, I'm sure the little kiddies will enjoy it and have fun with it until the newness of it has run its course and once they realize each of these things are consuming twice as much storage space. I'm sure I'll check it out myself by but it is clearly a gimic feature.
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I'm pretty excited about the feature. Imagine having a snippet of sound and video surrounding every photo you've ever taken. If that doesn't interest you, then sure... but to me that's pretty appealing.

It's not that it hasn't been done before, but I take 99% of my photos with my iPhone, and having it as a zero-friction feature is the benefit.

arn
 
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cariacou said:
10 year old "new feature"...
I guess the real news is the memory compression here?

now let's hope it'll be more open than the thunderbolt standards Apple designed a few years ago

edit: Nokia introduced it 1y 1/2 ago, I thought someone else did earlier but can't find any info, so I was wrong on 10years
http://lumiaconversations.microsoft...hose-moving-moments-with-nokia-living-images/
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Yes we get it. Apple didn't invent, the phone, cameras, video cameras, email and the internet. What they did do was put them all in a handheld device that every other mobile phone manufacturer has copied ever since.
 
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cariacou said:
10 year old "new feature"...
I guess the real news is the memory compression here?

now let's hope it'll be more open than the thunderbolt standards Apple designed a few years ago

edit: Nokia introduced it 1y 1/2 ago, I thought someone else did earlier but can't find any info, so I was wrong on 10years
http://lumiaconversations.microsoft...hose-moving-moments-with-nokia-living-images/
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...which rarely used because they have done it wrong, as a matter of fact. I didn't write this out of fanboyism. :D
 
I love that Apple can take something that's been out (that most consumers didn't know or care about) ... and actually make people love it. Not many companies can do that, but Apple is king of it!

I'd much rather get a feature late and have it be polished and functional than be the first to get it, and it's a wasted feature.
 
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The "Best New Feature" is barely mentioned in most of the reviews I've read.

I am, of course, referring to 2gb ram. Air 2 is exponentially more stable than any previous iOS device I've ever owned, I'm hoping the 6S+ will emulate this feat.
 
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RockSpider said:
Why, because they copied this from HTC, too bad they just can't come out and say they did.
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too bad it went virtually no where with HTC. so what if its a copy? There's nothing that's happening today that isn't a copy of something else. Doesn't mean it isn't good.

At least the feature will actually go somewhere with iPhones.
 
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I'm kind of disappointed with this. It's basically just a video and a photo, saved separately. I was sort of expecting them to be a little more creative with the solution for this. Sure, they wanted the photo to have a traditional format, but for the video part I expected them to use a format that would refer to the actual photo as a keyframe to save some space. Apparently nobody gave much thought to this.
 
I won't use this. To each their own. But is the reality distortion field still turned on? How can they say it's not a video?
 
exactly... JPG + MOV..

The JPG is what u see first... when u use Touch 3D, the MOV starts playing..... The fact Yosemite may not be able to tell, its displayed in Get Info as a QuickTime. + JPG image.

Since the MOV is stripped out when sending via email to non-live photo devices, it would be just a JPG anyway.

The fact Yosemite (i think that's probably the screenshot) displays separate QuickTime and JPG, indicates its clearly a video with JPG on the front, but based on the application used, it combines both of them in one.

With a 3D Touch enabled phone, its the full experience. :D

I still call it a video with a JPG in front..
 
LordBeelzebub said:
It's 100% a gimmic. I enjoy photography myself, I'm not a pro by any my means, but the first thing I would do is turn that off. As you said, there are ways to take still images to illustrate movement/motion/action. That's the beauty of photography.

What this is, is the phone taking both a photo and video and combining them as a single file. Apple says it's not a video, but if it's in motion, yes it is a video.

There is a clear separation between still photo and moving video. Apple can say what these things are all they want, but the fact remains.

I'm not saying it's a bad feature, I'm sure the little kiddies will enjoy it and have fun with it until the newness of it has run its course and once they realize each of these things are consuming twice as much storage space. I'm sure I'll check it out myself by but it is clearly a gimic feature.
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... or everyone will be taking Live Photos lol.
like... everyone will be. everyone will be sharing them. They will be all over Facebook since its supporting it. I mean there's no reason to not use it since there isn't a real extra step to use it. It is a gimmick, but it will be a very popular gimmick, which is literally the point of gimmicks lol.
 
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