@gruber.foo
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@gruber.fooI've never seen Trump using his phone to snap a photo before.
@gruber.fooOh yes, me too.
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@gruber.fooI prefer the Apple ones for their brevity.
@gruber.fooOne spitball, looking at battery life gains YoY (18 Pro gets longer battery life than 17 Pro Max): at a certain point maybe Apple calls battery life “good enough” and rather than increase it YoY, they make the device noticeably thinner, merging Pro specs with Air design.
@gruber.fooYep. 21st and Chestnut. Has been an Apple billboard for I think at last 15 years — since before the Apple Store opened on Walnut even.
@gruber.fooI think that take is basically correct. Loosely held opinion at this point, but that’s my basic take.
@gruber.fooBut they made a second-generation iPhone Mini too. So the question isn’t whether there will be a second Air, but whether there will be a third. These phones have 2-3 year runways. Just by launching the first iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone Air, Apple effectively committed to 2 generations.
@gruber.fooI believe the rumors that there will be an Air 2 in the spring, debuting alongside iPhone 18 and 18e. Now that the Air has dual cameras I’m sure Air 2 will also, with the second camera being ultrawide 0.5x.
@gruber.fooThinking back through my conversations, I think this makes sense. I don’t think Apple sees sensor noise as sufficiently analogous to actual film grain, so they don’t use that as a source. But they *do* use exposure settings. You get more intense grain in low light, which mirrors film.
@gruber.fooI did!
@gruber.fooThe two “cases” I bought for 17 Pro last year, and which both fit 18 Pro perfect:
Nomad leather back: nomadgoods.com/products/magne…
Beats (no lip): www.beatsbydre.com/accessories/ph…
@gruber.fooI haven’t bought one in a while, but Ryan London is Bullstrap’s long-time archrival. Very similar designs with no bottom lip. Different leather texture.
@gruber.fooIf you carry an iPhone and iPad Mini, you’re in the bullseye of the Duo demographic.
@gruber.fooNo, of course not. There are many very smart people who are just born without a good mind for math. And vice-versa: great math students whose brains are lacking in other areas. But it’s an odd thing to brag that students at the country’s largest university system are “struggling with basic math”.
@gruber.fooI don’t think it’s a fixed pattern, either, and it might have some relation to natural sensor noise. Apple hasn’t yet really explained it. I’m keeping my eyes out for interviews with photography oriented sites.
@gruber.fooOnly a little late this year.
@gruber.fooI've now seen more ads for the iPhone Duo (1), five weeks ahead of launch, than I have for the iPhone Air (0), an entire year after launch.
@gruber.fooI’m quite sure they in fact are. Why wouldn’t they be?
@gruber.fooFuckin-A right, man. Look forward to checking this out soon. (Not now, but soon, for reasons you can guess.)
