Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
by tomashertus on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:04PM
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> why does everybody talk in that weird way;"Wow. What an exciting day." It feels so weird and artificial
This gets me every time. It's so artificial that I'm pulling my hair. I honestly don't know, why everyone is always so so "excited". Every time I hear someone say "this is exciting", I think BS. We had a colleague and his go-to phrase was "This is super exciting". "SUPER EXCITING!"
Where do you live?
Because I'm from Europe and I used to work for a US company but in a European office and it was kind of a running joke among us that the people from the HQ would always call everything "amazing" and have these all-hands meetings that felt like rallies to us.
I think this fits the cliché that we have about Americans, although I'm sure it's not like that everywhere.
Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
by tomashertus on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:35PM
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I'm from Czech, but live in Silicon Valley. For last 10 years I have been really struggling with this. Every time someone calls something "amazing", I automatically ask them politely to tell me what they really think. Oh boy, I heard some harsh feedback after the first "it's amazing".
I don't know if you've seen this, but working with Eastern Europeans for a year, this really hit home: https://blog.ipspace.net/2019/11/s1600-Its-All-Garbage-Short...
I got an error message that said it rejects hotlinking, but you can see the picture in this post:
https://blog.ipspace.net/2019/11/why-are-you-always-so-negat...
Thanks for the link. Pretty much sums up my experience. And I can say it isn't so much about Easter European... it is more like American vs the Rest of the World.
Oh man, as a Yank who has worked at startups, I feel like that’s just the sales people we have sadly perfected. “Let’s all cheer instead of whistling past the graveyard.” FWIW, devs here struggle with it too.
>but without comparison I am left wondering, how much better is the new stuff
When the comparison is 8 vs 10 bit HDR while 99.5+% are watching a crappy SDR youtube feed on SDR panels comparisons literally can't be real.
Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
by tommyderami on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:49PM
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I believe you can generally just capture a scene with a lot of dynamic range (say a person standing in front of a flat wall with the light falloff ranging from dark to overexposed) and then zoom in on a frame and you'll see more or less banding because of the tough decisions the capture device has to make on what data to throw away/reduce and what to keep
I kinda don't think Tim was in the theatre. It's much more likely he's match moved and laid over pre-recorded renders. they're not the first tech group I've seen go to full pre-recorded footage like this, it takes _all_ the risk out of a failed demo.
Apple employees already have the corporate robotic, overworked aesthetic down.
Watching them attempt to display emotions is hilarious.
They also present a lot of features (especially photos), but without comparison I am left wondering, how much better is the new stuff. And why should I buy it...
Sounds great with that new glass too; I wondered if they would show how much better it is -- Maybe do something funny, risky, and slightly stupid like the Cybertruck incident. Nope: Just 4x better than before -- Whatever those 4x means. Get some hammers out -- Do something...
The A14 is also faster than before. No real-life demo comparison. Wouldn't it have been easy to compare the games on the GPUs (stuttering frame rate on one side)? Just something. If you can't show us why it is better, it is not good enough.
Oh, and why no actual live demos with the phone instead of just 100 great photos and videos of the phone and by the phone?
The old keynotes had a slide with the comparison of the mini, normal, pro models and the end. Those actually served as an informative summary at the end. Instead Tim Cook just told us what we had seen, and that "it was the day everybody had waited for", and then I am left struggling to remember why the pro is more expensive and how much more it was...
They may be the best at this, and it does feel (overly) polished, but I feel the old much simpler Jobs keynotes were far ahead in enthusiasm and far more entertaining. Sorry.