A world where everything is on the web and nothing is on the machines that we own is a sad world where we’ve lost a core freedom.
I want to preserve that freedom. I like making apps that show the value of that freedom.
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Apple keeps doing things that make us all feel sick. Removing ICEBlock is just the latest and it won’t be the last. So I am sympathetic to the idea of making web apps, and my brain goes there more often. And if I could solve the problems of money and of protecting users, I’d be way more inclined.
Editing is really nice and fluid. You can effortlessly zoom in and out of your project, select a clip, trim it, move it around, the works. I did mention when the app was announced, that it felt a lot more like Apple’s Final Cut Pro (FCP) than Adobe’s desktop Premiere Pro. The clips’ rounded look for one.
But it's effective as a movie about fire itself, about its fierceness. It's effective as a story about what a nightmare it is to traverse narrow little mountain roads with fire trucks (or school buses), and about the moments when the people responsible for fighting fires realize they have to surrender a particular area as lost and just try to evacuate as many people as they can. It shows some of the tension between the people responding to the fire and the representatives of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), whose transmission lines started the fire, as the company later acknowledged.
Again, though, what’s missing in Mr. Scorsese stands out because so much is present, and present in such solidly rendered ways.
One day, Apple may be able to make that singular, gorgeous XR headset that people actually want to wear. But until then, it has to meet the market where it is headed—and that is in cheaper, lighter, more functional frames.
If I suddenly come across a sum of money that I can use to buy anything over at Apple, I may consider a nice watch just to read time. I may consider retiring my Intel Mac mini with a new replacement. Or a new iPad -- I don't need an iPad -- to replace my TV-watching game-playing no-more-OS-update iPad Pro.
But I will never even consider buying the current Vision Pro.
(Or the iCar, if it exists.)
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