I’ve been waiting to see what happens with Photomator, and the fact that it’s not being included in anyway here makes me think it might not survive? Either that, or it’s gonna be heavily integrated into Photos…
I was also surprised to not see Photomator included. Wouldn’t it perfectly complement the lineup? I hadn’t thought of such a pessimistic interpretation, but now I’m worried as well …
I think Apple killed Aperture primarily because it was confusing to have iPhoto and Aperture with largely overlapping workflows. Aperture had the loupe view, and side by side comparison stuff, saved color grading tools (I think?), sure, but it wasn’t differentiated enough to justify a Pro designation. I think it makes more sense for Photomator features to be absorbed into Photos… and maybe Photos gets some new Pixelmator integrations if you have it, for quick touch ups / enhancement type things.
On the other hand, Final Cut / iMovie will exist side by side because it’s truly a basic vs Pro situation.
Not a product manager at Apple, of course, but this is what logically seems to make sense.
Uff, I sure hope you are wrong! I don’t want to use the iCloud library for photos, but have my photos available as digital files elsewhere on the ssd. Of course, your prediction makes more sense from Apple’s standpoint, unfortunately.
I do like the convenience of iCloud, but totally agree that having them safe elsewhere is necessary. I’ve been pretty bad about keeping solid, non-iCloud backups of my photos. I definitely need to be more proactive about it.
I mean, the friendly way to kill off the differences between Aperture and Photos would have been to add all the missing workflow stuff to Photos before killing Aperture. Photos did not get lift-and-stamp edits until late 2022, years after Aperture was discontinued, and it isn't as good as the corresponding feature in Aperture was. Also, it would have been cool if the Photos import from Aperture library had ever worked, even a little bit. I keep an external hard drive around with my old Aperture library because I know it contains photos that Photos.app still hasn't pulled in correctly.
Downvoted for the reason that I’ve not seen any credible evidence of massive election fraud, in the USA, since the suggestion of it in 2020. If you can point me to something credible, that proves even 1,000s of votes in a single district were impacted, (thereby stealing an election via mail fraud) I’ll remove my downvote.
I think it might be _unethical_ to not spread the joy of playing Doom for the first time? Though, I’m not entirely sure there’s been enough research done about the effects of violent video games in rat gamer populations.
I was very happy to see this. I’m fairly against live animal testing, but giving rats the joy of playing Doom??? I think I _may_ have to be OK with this.
Wait. Is Jelly Car basically a rethinking of this? I never managed to have the elasto games, but looking at the trailer, there’s a lot of similarities.
The onus is on you here… but, I think I know where you’re going with this. In terms of number of email addresses people have and use, vs number of usernames people have and use, you might be right that some people have 1 or 2 email addresses and many usernames.
Email masking has become easier to use, and many people use `+addressing` to uniquely tie their email to the service for spam prevention / tracking, which would make stuffing harder.
In these cases, email would be much more unique and a better protection against stuffing. HOWEVER, it’s not obvious how Email verification protocol would work for these types of things.
I think that the "tools" movement is probably the most interesting aspect of what's happening in the AI space. Why? Because we don't generally reuse the "jigs" we make as programmers, and the tool movement is forcing us to codify processes into reusable tools. My only hope is that we converge on a set of tools and processes that increase our productivity but don't require a burning a forrest to do so. Post AI still has agents, but it's automatically running small transformations based on pattern recognition of compiler output in a test, transform, compile, test ... loop.... or something.
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