The Wind in What’s Left of the Willows…: microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/04/18/the…
The price of hedgehog influencers? Salmonella… link.medium.com/dhJqGfm4YV
Facebook uploaded 1.5 million users’ email contacts without permission. Just as well Facebook has behaved impeccably up until now, so we can give them the benefit of the doubt, isn’t it?
Oh, wait. Never mind. businessinsider.com/facebook-uploa…
@darylcaulfield Lies.
@chrismsutcliffe I have a thing for hitting the sack with my wife and getting 8 hours sleep without a child jumping on our heads.
Does that count?
New post! 👉 onemanandhisblog.com/2019/04/carole… How the Brexit votes of a Welsh town turned Carole Cadwalladr into an investigative journalist
Petition: Restore nature on a massive scale to help stop climate breakdown petition.parliament.uk/petitions/2546… (I’m an old tree-hugger at heart)
@corinne_podger @smartfilming @MarcSettle Oh, mojo is nowhere. YouTubers and Influencers working from iPads? They’re on Apple’s radar.
@corinne_podger @MarcSettle Additionally, I seriously doubt that sales of FCPX are a significant factor financially for Apple. It’s the sales of Macs that it enables that matter.
@corinne_podger @MarcSettle But a growing fraction…
@MarcSettle Wow. Mine aren’t quite that old! The MacBookPro is 5 years old, and the desktop four years. Hoping that I might not have to buy a new laptop - as the iPad Pros get better and better.
@MarcSettle Sat in front of two right now - but they’re both quite old, which is one of the reasons I edit on my iPads much of the time!
@MarcSettle Yup - the “Marzipan” business. That’s more about moving iOS apps to Mac, though. Ooh. LumaFusion on Mac? Yum. :-)
@MarcSettle The most likely reason I could see would be a request from many FCPX users to have an iPad Pro version that could interoperate - but would evolving LumaFusion be the easiest way of doing that?
@MarcSettle Sherlocking is almost always about OS features, not separate apps; I actually used Watson, back in the day, the original Sherlocked app, and its features became part of the OS. LumaFusion is not that sort of an app. It could happen. It just seems unlikely.
@MarcSettle Yup. But Apple doesn’t need to fill that gap. At LumaFusion’s price, and relative ease of learning, anyone frustrated with iMovie can easily move up to LumaFusion, and still have a great iOS experience (and keep buying iOS devices…).
@MarcSettle There’s no gap. LumaFusion is there and selling. I meant that Apple only tends to fill gaps for its platforms where nobody else is producing the software. Aperture, and iWork, were initially there as defensive moves against Adobe and Microsoft not bringing their apps across.
Also: this is pretty much the nail in the coffin of a trade deal with the US if we end up with a no deal Brexit. twitter.com/adders/status/…
This is a telling piece of reporting from the Irish Times. It’s clear that members of the ERG are starting to concoct conspiracy theories to deal with the cognitive dissonance between their emotional beliefs and the reality of the world. irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…
@MarcSettle I’m not sure that’s Apple’s way anymore. They seem quite happy to let others build the software and support them, rather than feeling they have to do it all. They only seem to step in when they feel it needs to be a core feature, or there’s a gap in the market to be filled.
Interesting that Facebook saw Apple News as a competitive issue:
”The company discussed setting up a new section on the app entirely for news and directed a team to quietly work on developing it; one of the team’s ambitions was to try to build a … microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/04/17/int…
Wow, this is a telling quote:
”But he brightened when he turned to one of the topics that, according to people close to him, truly engaged his imagination: using AI to keep humans from polluting Facebook.” wired.com/story/facebook…
And there we are:
”To this emotional story, Facebook had a programmer’s rational response” wired.com/story/facebook…
Engineers versus investigative journalists: microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2019/04/17/eng…
@benwhitelaw But the core point is the same: it’s a lot of cash to ask most people to drop in one go. And that speaks to a rather privileged target audience.