Go for it.I secretly feel like hitting people in their faces with a chair when they do that
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Video of 20-Year-Old Mac Operating System Running on an Apple Watch
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Or even having enough res to read it. Too bad it didn't fill the screen. Where does the mouse go, or is better to use a Wacom?
Seriously though, great job, kudos.
If I remember correctly, it was 7.1.2. I'm not sure if it required 7.1.2 + a system enabler or if the vanilla 7.1.2 worked.
I needed at least a 1GB, so I could have 2 systems and 1 backup, 7.6.1 and 8.1, and a photoshop scratch! v1.0.9!
I disagree, but let me give you my opinion:
This is the same as the "Go swimming with it, pour ketchup and syrup on it, hit it with a frying pan video" that appeared when the Watch first was delivered.
Let's see what this thing is capable of, and we can just know that we're using a subset of what it can do. From the video I mentioned, I know that my watch can be dropped, should I forget to take it off when swimming, it'll be OK. For this, I know that other O/S can be loaded on it, and should I want to (chances are small - I stopped jailbreaking when I put my credit cards on my iPhone - Risk is undetermined, and should it be leaked, the consequences are catastrophic, financially), and for me, it is interesting.
See? Just a different point of view, no criticizing.
Actually, since it's a portrait video, it's by FAR best that we NOT see it converted to landscape.
Unlike so many awful YouTube conversions, this video has no black side-bars embedded into the file: it's a true native portrait video. It fills the full screen of my iPhone perfectly, and in the iPad's default orientation, the video fills most of the screen instead of appearing in a shrunken bar as a landscape video would. Meanwhile, the video runs usably large on laptop/desktop displays, since they're so big to begin with. The format of this video is a pure delight--a breath of fresh air--a glass of water in a parched and blazing desert.
Given that you are actually a simulation and have no actual consciousness: you would be totally forgiven, if you existed.
Hardware is minimalistic? Software is more efficient? Those aren't at all reasons. Hardware has become more advance and software has actually become more complex. The UI of the software and stylistic build of the hardware look simple and minimal, but the technology behind it isn't.
These videos merely are a neat thing to go "wow, you used to need a huge machine to run that!" which is impressive when the machine you're using fits on your wrist. A reminder of how far hardware technology has gone. And Apple Watch isn't actually using the best or most efficient processor it could have been using.
Yes, considering there's no value in making it landscape/widescreen.
It's a video of a landscape operating system, which was barely visible, booting up.
Software is much LESS efficient today. Back in the days of more constrained hardware the software had to be more efficient. You just have to go back a lot farther than a PowerPC Mac.. maybe an original 68000
These days people care a lot less about software efficiency.. they just throw more cores and RAM at a problem because it is often cheaper than spending more time fine tuning the software.
And of course if I saw a bear crapping in the woods, I would say "Hey look, Bear!" 'cause that's cool too.
I secretly feel like hitting people in their faces with a chair when they do that
Portrait video is perfect when you try to annoy (and succeed!) a graphic designer friend, just like Comic Sans...
I don't see the point of forcing it landscape just because you feel like you are getting your money's worth out of your monitor by using all the pixels all the time. I bet you are one of those people who can't stand movies in cinematic width because it leaves black bars top and bottom. The important part of shooting web video is getting the right subject matter in view and if the object is tall and skinny it is stupid to shoot it landscape and cut most of the subject off. Now if the person had been able to zoom way into the watch face and it still be in focus then YES, landscape would have been great. Whether the movie filled your view screen is irrelevant. You look at content all day that is vertically oriented and think nothing of it so why have an issue with movies?
What should this person have done without a zoom lens, create a video that's almost all tabletop or make us look at the watch laying sideways and make us turn our heads 90 degrees to read what's on the little screen?
P.S. He keeps touching the digital crown to keep the watch face awake while it boots up.
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Somehow I get by looking at vertical objects just fine. Maybe you need to have your eyes checked. Looking at movie posters and practically every book in existence must just be hell for you.
We hear these kinds of things all the time. But i have yet to here newer iOS run on out-dated iPhones. E.g iOS 8 running on iPhone 4. That should be way way easy than running 20 year old mac OS X on a watch, right ?
Designers should understand their mediums. Producing something that can only be viewed with obtrusive black boxes surrounding it doesn't make much sense.
Whatever detail may be gained by filming vertical objects in portrait is reduced when played back on standard screens.
To paraphrase Dr. "Bones" McCoy, "Damn it, Jim. He's an engineer, not videographer."
It's barely visible because the camera is too far away.
For one, you don't know what "obtrusive" means if you are referring to the black areas that simply complete the width of the movie. The black doesn't obstruct your view of anything because nothing was ever filmed in that space. That black is a limitation of the movie player defined space not being able to play any size movie as is.
Adding more tabletop to this video by filming it landscape at the same distance away brings NOTHING to your viewing ease. Here, I reformatted the video landscape by slapping in more tabletop AND by zooming in to fill the frame vertically. You have to live with a blurrier image but you get your precious landscape view and your money's worth out of your monitor pixels
:View My Video
BTW- the file size is probably bigger as well since static black doesn't require much bandwidth. Enjoy!
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Indeed, none of this was shot particularly well. I'd prefer it be shot closer and in landscape to conform to the shape of the OS.
For one, you don't know what "obtrusive" means if you are referring to the black areas that simply complete the width of the movie. The black doesn't obstruct your view of anything because nothing was ever filmed in that space. That black is a limitation of the movie player defined space not being able to play any size movie as is.
Adding more tabletop to this video by filming it landscape at the same distance away brings NOTHING to your viewing ease. Here, I reformatted the video landscape by slapping in more tabletop AND by zooming in to fill the frame vertically. You have to live with a blurrier image but you get your precious landscape view and your money's worth out of your monitor pixels
View My Video
BTW- the file size is probably bigger as well since static black doesn't require much bandwidth. Enjoy!
Obtrusive - noticeable or prominent in an unwelcome or intrusive manner. The letter-boxing is large, surrounds the video, and is unwelcome by most viewers. My use of the word was apposite. The video player's limitation should be taken into account by the person filming; that's why I said designers should understand their mediums.
I agree, your alterations brought nothing to my viewing ease. The original video wasn't shot in landscape, which would've been preferable. As for getting my money's worth out of my monitor, this is solely a fixation you've attributed to me. I don't know why.