Yea, if Apple is going to want their VR products to succeed they're going to have to rely heavily on some vertical integration on video capture/editing software, and FCPX (and now Pixelmator for the spatial photography efforts) seems like the natural place to put those efforts.
Mercedes and other manufacturers do this as well. While it's arguably an extreme example, you can't purchase the Mercedes Benz Project One hypercar unless you have a history of purchasing their low-volume, extremely expensive cars (AMG Black Series, etc).
Unfortunately the RX100MIII isn’t supported, but the Mark IV and over 30 other Sony cameras work with its [Imaging Edge Webcam utility](https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/app/webcam/en/) so you can use the camera directly as a webcam without the need for a capture card or HDMI cable.
I tried using this for a while on my Mac and while it generally works, it just wasn’t reliable enough. Sometimes the camera wouldn’t turn on automatically or it would claim to be in use by another process. It’s also not supported in all programs, and even when it is, it can be a pain to switch cameras due to UI annoyances.
In short, your webcam is one of those things that really needs to work 100% or it’ll end up causing problems at exactly the wrong time. No one wants to have to fiddle with the camera during an important meeting.
Sure. But it'd also give them a level of empathy it seems many CEOs lack. I'd say that's worth 1/12 of their work and, if anything, might make them a more efficient and truly understanding leader the remaining 11/12 of the year.
Former DPReview News Editor (who left after getting news of this back on January 18th) here: There were 8-10 members of the editorial team that were full time and a small group of freelancers. Add in about 8-10 more devs, who cycled in and out for the most part. So, 15-18 people, tops. By my rough math once, our entire operating cost for the year was about 10-12 minutes worth of Amazon revenue.
Worth noting this math is based on estimated numbers from what I roughly knew people’s salaries were and what server costs were roughly estimated at. I had no first-hand knowledge of the numbers, as I wasn’t allowed to view that info as a contractor.
Is it true that they're not going to sell the assets, and just shut everything down? If I had connections to an investment banker, I'd be trying to see if there's an in with Amazon...
I wasn’t privy to that information even before I left (Feb), but from what a few people who were/are privy to that information have told me, it doesn’t appear as though Amazon is at all interested in selling off the IP. So yea. Just shut it all down. Which is a fucking shame.
I've seen a few of these bonehead decisions in my career. Typically it happens because "MBAs are eating the world" -- someone with the idea that the number of things you have needs to be made smaller makes a ranked list of all the things in their area. Then they run "head -7" on the list.
I saw this happen long time ago when a company I worked for decided to close a product division because it was the fifth most popular i
the company. The people working on that product left, formed a startup, did the exact same thing and made $$$. Today the product category is a tens of billions industry.
It might be intentional then. Instead of having that content out there again where they will presumably have to pay affiliate commissions to the new owner, they must've calculated it's more profitable to just get rid of it.
From their announcement, that appears to be their plan. They said they will keep the site up for an limited amount of time. It's speculation on how long "limited" is. Months, years? There might be some clues with how quickly they shut down alexa.com "In December 2021, Amazon announced that it would be shutting down its Alexa Internet subsidiary. The service was then discontinued on May 1, 2022." which would put it at 5 months.
5 months seems not much time for a platform like this. I recently bought a lens that has been released 3 years ago; a gear review written today could provide useful information for much more than 5 months.
Author of the article here. I’m still trying to get additional information from Adobe. I’m seeing a majority of people say that they had the option on by default, but at least one person said the toggle was in the off position when they logged into their account. It’s unclear when precisely this change was made, but it’s definitely clear a majority of users are opt-out instead of opt-in from our readers at DPReview.
> "She also does sculpture because every painter eventually becomes a sculptor and every sculptor eventually becomes a painter."
I've noticed this through various reading and art classes back at university, but I've never quite come across a reason why this tends to hold true across the two domains. Why do you think that is? Or, better yet, why does your mother think that is?
I called her specifically to ask this, so here goes:
It's part urban legend, part self-fulfilling prophecy and part other reasons, namely:
Sculpting is hard, manual labour. And expensive at that due to the sheer volume of the medium along with storage space requirements. Over time people simply get sick of dealing with the day to day hardships of this artform so they turn to something lighter - like painting.
Painters on the other hand get bored of exploring the limitations of their field - some of which, like avoiding the colour black, are akin to the tabs vs spaces debate in IT, so they try other forms.
Ultimately artists will eventually try every medium that catches their interest just like musicians try other instruments and sometimes even get good at them. Professionally they just stick to what they know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification