iOS 7

**grskier** · 06-11-2013, 12:58 PM

Anything bigger than the 5 is uncomfortable in my hand...

Some of those droid things are just small tablets at this point.

Anyhow,

Real question. Video dudes, any chance that some of your peripheral needs may be met by the cloud in the next 2-3 years?

**stalefish3169** · 06-11-2013, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by grskier

Anyhow,

Real question. Video dudes, any chance that some of your peripheral needs may be met by the cloud in the next 2-3 years?

Probably not, if they're hoping icloud will, "just work."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/41...loud-just-work
iCloud, perhaps more than any Apple software product, is meant to "just work." When Apple introduced iCloud, it made clear its hopes to eradicate settings menus and file systems in favor of automation. Steve Jobs pledged to do a better job than he did on MobileMe, Apple’s notoriously horrible stab at web services a few years ago. With iCloud, changes you make to documents on your computer show up instantly on your iPhone and vice versa. "It just works," Jobs exclaimed when he first demoed the service in 2011. "Everything happens automatically," Jobs continued, "and it’s really easy to tie your apps into iCloud’s storage system."

"EVERYTHING HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY"

Nearly two years later, customers demand iCloud integration more than ever from third-party developers, but it’s a total mess to implement. "iCloud hasn’t worked out for us," wrote Daniel Pasco, CEO of development studio Black Pixel this past week. "We spent a considerable amount of time on this effort, but iCloud and Core Data syncing had issues that we simply could not resolve." Pocket lead developer Steve Streza piled on with a cutting tweet: "Remember that @blackpixel has many of the brightest people in Cocoa development. If they couldn’t get iCloud working, who can.......

**systemoverblow'd** · 06-11-2013, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by grskier

Video dudes, any chance that some of your peripheral needs may be met by the cloud in the next 2-3 years?

I am working on a cut from a single day of shooting and the assets are 700GB. And it's only 1280x720. Never mind 1080 or god forbid 4K raw.

Not likely.

And before, most peripherals were hard drive space. Not capture cards, raid controllers, video cards, etc. Now, they will have to be peripherals with this model so it's making everything much, much worse. I saw a post on facebook from Grant Gunderson and he personally has over 120TB with his mac pro and he's "just" a photog.

**MontuckyFried** · 06-11-2013, 01:41 PM

^^
Dang! That's a lot of hd space! What's nice about the traditional case setup for pros, is need more storage? Just pop in another drive. Run out of room again? Drop another one in. Easy and cheap, not to mention still streamlined.

I can't imagine what this new version's going to be like for pros like yourself. Some slick little cylinder, but with tons of wires and peripherals tangled and all over the place.

**schuss** · 06-11-2013, 01:52 PM

Well, the big issue isn't necessarily HD's, as eSATA solved a lot of those problems. The problem is capture and specialized video equipment, as you need PCI-E slots to handle that stuff, which this doesn't have. The data and throughput needs of video make it something that's offline until the final render, as the raw data is so damned big a 5 minute video would saturate normal connections for hours. God forbid you need to edit in the field (as every photog or video person I've ever met edits/culls during downtime in cars/trains/planes).
The other issue is the one Advres brought up on cabling/ports - apple has a long history of abandoning their own cables/ports (see: appletalk, ADP, mac serial, firewire), so putting investments in external peripherals on macs is a bad bet.

EDIT: My disdain for apple comes from being one of their resellers for 5 years. You think they're unreasonable to their customers? You ain't seen shit unless you're a reseller. Consumer device-wise, they make nice stuff, just not for me.

**MontuckyFried** · 06-12-2013, 01:49 PM

You know those crazy Taiwanese animated news reports? Yeah, they came out with a new one about iOS7 and the new Mac Pro. It's actually pretty hilarious.

**TheMessenger** · 06-12-2013, 03:21 PM

First world problems. 1000 bucks says that this Advres douchebag is going to buy the Mac Pro as soon as its available, and is going to love it.

**systemoverblow'd** · 06-12-2013, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by TheMessenger

First world problems. 1000 bucks says that this Advres douchebag is going to buy the Mac Pro as soon as its available, and is going to love it.

Ill take that thousand now. Cash, check, money order and Paypal accepted.

**TheMessenger** · 06-12-2013, 03:30 PM

Mac Pro doesn't come out till fall buddy.

**systemoverblow'd** · 06-12-2013, 03:40 PM

And I'm just letting you know you may as well pay now, because it ain't happening.

**stalefish3169** · 06-12-2013, 05:01 PM

Since we're wagering now, who wants some action that the iPhone 6 comes with a 5" display?

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**TheMessenger** · 06-12-2013, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by systemoverblow'd

And I'm just letting you know you may as well pay now, because it ain't happening.

Ok send me your Paypal username and password, and your checking account number so I can send you a payment

**systemoverblow'd** · 06-12-2013, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by TheMessenger

Ok send me your Paypal username and password, and your checking account number so I can send you a payment

Pussy, just like spook. Make a financial bet and won't live up to it.

**Arty50** · 06-12-2013, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by stalefish3169

Probably not, if they're hoping icloud will, "just work."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/41...loud-just-work
iCloud, perhaps more than any Apple software product, is meant to "just work." When Apple introduced iCloud, it made clear its hopes to eradicate settings menus and file systems in favor of automation. Steve Jobs pledged to do a better job than he did on MobileMe, Apple’s notoriously horrible stab at web services a few years ago. With iCloud, changes you make to documents on your computer show up instantly on your iPhone and vice versa. "It just works," Jobs exclaimed when he first demoed the service in 2011. "Everything happens automatically," Jobs continued, "and it’s really easy to tie your apps into iCloud’s storage system."

"EVERYTHING HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY"

Nearly two years later, customers demand iCloud integration more than ever from third-party developers, but it’s a total mess to implement. "iCloud hasn’t worked out for us," wrote Daniel Pasco, CEO of development studio Black Pixel this past week. "We spent a considerable amount of time on this effort, but iCloud and Core Data syncing had issues that we simply could not resolve." Pocket lead developer Steve Streza piled on with a cutting tweet: "Remember that @blackpixel has many of the brightest people in Cocoa development. If they couldn’t get iCloud working, who can.......

Please, please, please don't get me started on iCloud. I'm a huge Apple fanboi as most of you know, but their online services suck steaming monkydogshitballs.

iTools - Lame
MobileMe - Awful
iCloud - "Slightly" less awful but still very retarded

I have two MAJOR issues with iCloud.

1) The email search is inexfuckingscusably slow. Gmail search: instant. YahooMail search: instant. iCloud Mail search: after having the search time out 12 times, I'm still waiting for the 13th to come up with results...after I kicked it off last week. Ok, it's not that bad, but it's close. There's no damn good reason for it to be that slow. Shit, Yahoo is practically dead; but their email search is still instant.

2) Killing off iDisk was ridiculous. What good is iCloud file storage if I can't ever access or manage the files directly. Gah! Useless.

**iceman** · 06-12-2013, 10:58 PM

I wonder if anyone at apple remembers...

At its peak, Digital was the second-largest computer company in the world, with over 100,000 employees...

**Captain Awesome** · 06-13-2013, 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

I wonder if anyone at apple remembers...

Wasn't Altavista originally "altavista.digital.com"? Now the site's completely gone...

**systemoverblow'd** · 06-13-2013, 05:03 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

I wonder if anyone at apple remembers...

Haha, my mother worked for them the majority of my young life. She even continued on with Compaq after they were sold.

**mud** · 06-13-2013, 06:51 AM

Jobs is rolling in his grave. I sold off all my apple stock shortly after he died because I knew the under Cook the creativity would die off. Looks like I'm not the only one with the same idea.

**iceman** · 06-13-2013, 07:04 AM

Originally Posted by stalefish3169

Sounds like you guys should get the SS S4 or HTC1 minis.

This article sums up my feelings, I'd give up a ton for better battery life.

http://gizmodo.com/5992917/battery-l...c-that-matters

**schuss** · 06-13-2013, 07:34 AM

I wouldn't blame Cook too much. Apple didn't have many more places to go, other than something google-glass like. As a company, they'll be fine, but primarily in Consumer goods as opposed to computing.

**Tippster** · 06-13-2013, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by iceman

This article sums up my feelings, I'd give up a ton for better battery life.

http://gizmodo.com/5992917/battery-l...c-that-matters

Work upgraded me to an iPhone 5 from a BB Curve. 1st thing I did was buy a Mophie Air case for it, so battery life is no longer an issue. As soon as I get the 20% warning I flip a switch and it recharges to 100% in about an hour, while still using the phone. Only downside is it gets a little warm.

There must be a similar product for Android phones.

**TheMessenger** · 06-13-2013, 10:18 AM

This stuff is cool.

Way better than the mess that is Android, Windows or anything else that is out there.

Seriously don't get the Apple bashing. In my experience the ones who bitch the most about Apple are the first in line when a new product comes out.

Thus my prediction that the Mac Pro is going to be Advresdouche's next computer.

**systemoverblow'd** · 06-13-2013, 10:45 AM

Originally Posted by TheMessenger

Seriously don't get the Apple bashing. In my experience the ones who bitch the most about Apple are the first in line when a new product comes out.

Thus my prediction that the Mac Pro is going to be Advresdouche's next computer.

And then again you would be wrong. I needed a new MBP for a job. When the unibodies came out, I bought the old model that day because the new POS's didn't have a matte screen. And that 5(6?) year old machine is still my daily laptop. I didn't upgrade my mac pro last update either, its from 2010. I upgrade iphones every 2 years skipping the first redesign. So I always have the old stuff. My last 4s I bought 3 months after it came out only because my 3gs was getting long in the tooth.

They haven't done anything groundbreaking in years.

**stalefish3169** · 06-13-2013, 11:04 AM

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/13/app...oming-in-fall/

Apple Reportedly Trying 4.7- and 5.7-Inch Screens On iPhones Next Year, Cheaper Model Coming In Fall

Apple is looking at various changes to its iPhone lineup over the course of the next year, according to a new report from Reuters, including two sizes of larger smartphone devices, in both a 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch flavor. The “phablet” plans are also being considered alongside a less expensive iPhone model, which is slated to begin production next month, according to Reuters’ sources, after a brief delay as Apple attempts to get the colors right for the new plastic-backed device.