Tut tut Apple.. Surely you make enough money already from adapters and cables..
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Plenty of downloadable versions of Capture One Pro8 floating about the internet.
If they're doing this, I expect the motivation is to make the phone thinner & free up (a little) internal space.
I think I'd rather have the 3.5mm jack myself though.
Possibly, but I know someone who has worked for Apple, he's seen the figures for income generated from sales of adapters.. It is huge..
The margins will be massive - that's generally true in the industry as far as branded cables and adaptors. HDMI cables are a classic example.
But relative to the profits on the iPhone itself, I expect it's fairly small.
Apple have a history of end-of-lifing things some time before anyone else. Floppy drives, optical drives, Ethernet connectors...
Sometimes they go the opposite direction, to 'simplify'. Personally I really like the (proprietary) mag safe power connectors on their laptops... But they've now, on the new MacBook, switched to a standard USB type C connector. Which will reduce their opportunity to sell proprietary bits.
FridgeMagnet
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I put it on another thread about Aperture, but I'm trying out Photos at the moment—mostly because I wanted to use icloud photo library on holiday, and also I do sometimes take my laptop out when shooting, and it's nice to be able to do some editing before I get home and not have to do it all again. The interface is a lot more tidied up than Aperture's, which let's face it hadn't been updated for years before they said they weren't going to, and is generally quick and nice to use. The editing is fine if you don't do a lot of PP, which I don't.
However there's one huge issue: you can't "edit in external application" any more (you could even do this in iPhoto, let alone Aperture). It seems you actually have to export the original, edit it, and re-import it, losing all your metadata. I don't do this very often but for e.g. lens distortion correction or de-vignetting, there just isn't any other way. There's a "wtf apple" moment right there.
Bernie Gunther
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So I was vaguely thinking about getting an iPad mini or similar.
Am I wrong or is usable RAW support missing from iOS, despite the years it's been around?
You'd think an iPad would be ideal for photography, but as far as I can make out on a brief research trawl, it's practical only for jpgs ...
Is that right?
Am I wrong or is usable RAW support missing from iOS, despite the years it's been around?
You'd think an iPad would be ideal for photography, but as far as I can make out on a brief research trawl, it's practical only for jpgs ...
Is that right?
FridgeMagnet
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Even a system which just duplicated the image and automatically opened the new one in an external editor, which is what iPhoto and Aperture did, would be fine. In fact you can do this on iOS Photos, but not OS X.
FridgeMagnet
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As far as I can tell it accepts RAWs but uses the embedded JPEG on iOS. Using RAW images with iPhoto for iOS - Apple Support Which would be a bit pointless—you might as well just save as JPEG.
I'm not sure how this works with photos which are imported into OS X Photos as RAW, have modifications made (which would affect the converted RAW file) and are then synced and viewed/edited on iOS. You'd then have modifications applied to two different source images, the converted RAW and the embedded JPEG. That doesn't sound proper.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Yeah, thats about what I got from looking into it a bit. Not really a compelling story.
Fez909
toilet expert
Make enough money already you say?
Make the phone thinner you say?
Behold! The £79 case which makes your battery last longer, your phone thicker...and uglier
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Here's some more genius design from Apple.
http://gizmodo.com/the-sad-reality-of-the-magic-mouse-2-1746949289
http://gizmodo.com/the-sad-reality-of-the-magic-mouse-2-1746949289
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Yeah, can't believe they did that. Even though it only needs to be plugged in for a few minutes, it doesn't seem to make much sense, apart from there not being anywhere else they could easily put the port without changing the shape of the mouse.
The port where the lightning connector goes is in exactly the same place as the catch on the original Magic Mouse.
Not that I can see any reason for doing that.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
They should have stuck the port in the end, so you can charge and use at the same time.
Its neater than the gazillion rechargeable batteries I've got at the moment however.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
That would mean changing the front design significantly as the moving top part only has a couple of mm clearance. They should have tried that though.
You can get a wireless charging pack for the Magic Mouse but it's £35 which will buy a lot of batteries, either rechargeable or not.
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hiraethified
£65 for the lowly rated mouse plus £35 for the charger?! Think I'd just get a superior Logitech instead.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
No, the wireless charger is for the original Magic Mouse, not the Magic Mouse 2.
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hiraethified
Either way it's silly money for a very average device.
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Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
My original Magic Mouse has been the best mouse I've ever owned, loads better than the previous Mighty Mouse. Was a birthday present and has been in daily use for years. My only complaint would be that it gets through batteries, which either AA rechargeables or the wireless charging pack would rectify.
I don't see much point in upgrading to the Magic Mouse 2 at the moment.
I don't see much point in upgrading to the Magic Mouse 2 at the moment.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
At £65 I probably wouldn't like it.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I've got a mighty mouse too, i keep it at work as there wasn't a mouse available to use on my laptop.
Its shit
FridgeMagnet
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We have Magic Mice at work. I like them to use, but they _do_ eat batteries, and the ones we have are getting a bit old so don't always recognise when they have charged batteries, and then the rechargeable batteries we have are getting old too and don't always hold a charge... I just got a USB scrollwheel mouse from IT in the end.
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hiraethified
I'm using a Logitech mouse I must have had for 8 years or so and the batteries seem to last forever. It's got plenty of buttons which please me greatly.
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