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Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by potench »

Cockbrand wrote: post #491
0x38B wrote: post #473

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Some of my favorite Shortcuts do things like: - toggle the white point setting on or off to warm and dim the display for nighttime, - present a menu that makes and displays QR codes for my contact (from vCard text), Wifi info, and more, - turn off Wifi and cellular at the same time (this one's on my homescreen), - upload a .torrent file to qBittorrent's watch folder via SSH. I use Shortcuts at work, too, like sharing…

> turn off Wifi and cellular at the same time (this one's on my homescreen) Out of curiosity - how is this different from enabling Airplane Mode?

Airplane mode leaves WiFi on.

Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator

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Post by bestest »

lowkey_ wrote: post #81

I'd never heard of Pixelmator before (congrats to them on the exit), and: WOW their website already looks like an Apple website. The colors, the font, the logo with the same colors as Apple Photos, all the images that show a Mac window, the shade of red in the top right, the "machine learning" section that almost looks like Notes, and I scrolled down and it's all about how great Mac is. It seemed inevitable that Appl…

I used to be their web developer 10 years ago. Yes, it was always their goal to be like Apple. The apple aesthetic, pixel perfect websites, smooth transitions, similar fonts etc.

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Post by smilespray »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #343
no_wizard wrote: post #337

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I suspect this move is due to behind the scenes Adobe / Apple relations souring over the years. Adobe used to be one of their biggest supporters and helped winning over users to the Mac platform. This has diverged significantly over the years, and I think Apple is looking at Adobe and their business model and realizing that it both lucrative for them to have software that fills into this market to round out their cre…

Creative software and macbooks are complement goods. i.e., demand for macbooks goes up when creative software gets cheaper, and vice versa. This is a case where mergers are expected to make prices go down. As opposed for substitute goods, like macbooks and dell laptops, where a merger would probably make prices go up. In both cases you have a prisoner's dilemma between vendors - with vendors producing substitute good…

> demand for macbooks goes up when creative software gets cheaper

Is this something you just made up, or does this really happen? Colour me sceptical.

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Post by butterknife »

jpc0 wrote: post #484
butterknife wrote: post #417

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I am talking about automatically adding fades and/or automatically snapping to nearest zero crossing when cutting audio to prevent clicks. Every other modern DAW does this automatically. In Logic, you are expected to do this manually every time you do an audio edit. Like it's 2004 again. Edit: added clarification about zero crossings and editing workflow

This seems like a very weird hill to die on, specifically concidering this is a feature I would want explicitly off and wouldn't care about existing. It's editing 101, check your cuts are at a safe boundry of put in a fade. I've never seen an auto feature do what I want though and need to redo it anyway, so just doing nothing is half as much work. I would much rather complain about lack of AAF support in logic but th…

You might be diligent to check your cuts in Sample Editor.

However when you zoom in in the Arrange the way the waveform is rendered it seems like you are cutting on a zero crossing when in fact you are not.

It lies to you and leads you to believe you've done the right thing.

I have had the pleasure of working on tracks with dozens of clicks that I had to remove thanks to the laziness of Logic developers, pardon me for dying on the hill and spoiling your view.

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Post by quitit »

lynndotpy wrote: post #68

Is there any way this can go bad? When Apple acquired DarkSky, they absolutely destroyed a service that I loved and relied on. Four years on, Apple Weather is less reliable than DarkSky, and not even close to feature complete. But DarkSky was a cross-platform service, whereas Pixelmator is software that's already Apple-only. I'm wondering how much I should be worried, and if I should already be abandoning ship.

In view of how AI is changing graphics tools, my guess would be that Pixelmator's pay-once business model didn't bode well for long term competitive viability.

We've already seen Affinity switch into releasing a "v2" after years of updates, and on the other hand hobby apps like LightTricks get far more out of their subscription services, despite being a consumer grade template-based app.

As for how it will be run. I'm guessing that Apple will just be their backer like they do for Claris. I don't imagine a MacPaint style app returning to macOS, but sharing code between the two to enhance mark-ups, the photos app and the like seems likely.

For random conjecture: this may also mean Pixelmator grows into the AR space.

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Post by vr46 »

Applejinx wrote: post #395
vr46 wrote: post #152

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In defence of the AI hubris, I laid down a funky rhythm guitar track, verse and chorus, and then fiddled around with the AI bassist and AI drummer and blow-me-down-with-a-feather if the results weren't outstanding. Like a perfect demo. I was able to send that to my mate and say, here you go, here's a demo with guide tracks for the bass. For making demos and filling-out sketches, I'm thrilled. Here's the audio, and al…

Huh. Doesn't return to the one, ever? You've got sort of a I - III - IV thing going on, and it just goes to IV and stays there forever. Did you think that was the root? Fun toy, though! I take it you extended it backwards into an intro, or you have playing it can read that you muted, leading into your guitar stuff. Did you play to a click or is it reading your tempo too?

I think I played straight into Logic with the metronome on, two sections and then pushed that forward to create some blank bars for the intro and then added the drummer on multiple tracks and same for bassist, then fiddled with some of the settings for each section.

I was pretty impressed, though, for approximately ten minutes start to finish. I should probably go recall what I played so I can try and finish the riffs off or something.

An actual competent musician ought to be able to make the most ridiculous demos with this thing.

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Post by dorian-graph »

artdigital wrote: post #457
dorian-graph wrote: post #446

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It's owned by Canva now though, so I don't have any more faith in it.

oh dang, that went by me completely, TIL! I really hope Photomator/Pixelmator won't get absorbed into the Photos app, now knowing that Affinity has also been gobbled up :(

Same! I had immediately considered it to switch to, and then learn that. Nothing is sacred.

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Post by plufz »

smilespray wrote: post #504
ChadNauseam wrote: post #343

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Creative software and macbooks are complement goods. i.e., demand for macbooks goes up when creative software gets cheaper, and vice versa. This is a case where mergers are expected to make prices go down. As opposed for substitute goods, like macbooks and dell laptops, where a merger would probably make prices go up. In both cases you have a prisoner's dilemma between vendors - with vendors producing substitute good…

> demand for macbooks goes up when creative software gets cheaper Is this something you just made up, or does this really happen? Colour me sceptical.

I mean theoretically that makes sense? If you get more value for something it increases the chance of buying it? But I also have no idea if this statement is true.
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