Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by spyder on Saturday October 12, 2019 @02:35PM
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Just watching their promo video about the Astropad Studio on their website, what I see is the latency for drawing is annoyingly bad (and they show it exactly when they're talking about "lightning fast speed" :O )
But part of the problem is probably the drawing software too, because even native drawing has different latency between drawing apps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNbvYaO0ZZ0
It's not an easy problem because even 1 ms latency is noticeable in drawing as Microsoft research showed:
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by cma on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:57PM
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Apple OS updates broke low latency even on things that only send the mouse, like Synergy (power saving causes latency when idle and wakes up for responsiveness only on hardware input, or something like that). My guess is sidecar uses OS level stuff to get around some of those limitations, which may have affected astropad too?
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by giancarlostoro on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:25PM
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Exaggerated how? Not sure how the investors benefit. I am going to assume good intent from the author to just reflect on things. Hes not focused on his other projects. But he does have the right to link to them since they are relevant.
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by tpmx on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:28PM
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That would be irresponsible speculation on my part, so no thanks.
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by giancarlostoro on Saturday October 12, 2019 @12:30PM
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Again how do investors benefit? There is usually motive behind ill intent, I am not seeing it. I have had moments similar but not quite as impacting as an entire OS adopting my ideas and I reflect from time to time on those moments. I have nothing to gain from sharing them though nor will anybody near me.
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by coredog64 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:09PM
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English can be an awful language sometimes. I take that “for the benefit” to mean “The real audience is AstroPad investors”, not that AstroPad investors somehow came out better on the deal.
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by tpmx on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:10PM
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Thank you for helping clarifying this thing, coredog64! (You're indeed correct.) I'll try to express myself more clearly going forward.
Re:What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple
by giancarlostoro on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:37PM
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Ah I understand now, that I can't argue against. Companies make such public statements all the time so it's not surprising if that's the case. This also gives future investors insights into the company they are considering investing in and how they operate.
Unless they divulged some really clever low-latency video compression optimizations during these meetings (I bet making the mouse cursor move with low latency was the #1 priority - everything else is boring plumbing)... I'm filing this under the "CEO's slightly dramatically exaggerated regrets", maybe for the benefits of his investors.