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If tech moguls have shown us one thing, it is that money beyond one's wildest dreams is still not enough to be happy.
never has been.
The Craiglist guy and the MySpace guy beg to differ.
Apple acquires Pixelmator
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#582Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a fellow 2012 Denon owner (AVR 3313) you can probably remove the RPi and just use HTTP. Just use devtools on your browser to do an action in the web UI and see what request it sends, then replicate it in shortcuts. And there's a internet radio capability built in - you have to pay $20 or so a year for it but it should be easy enough to set up a competing service since it uses unencrypted HTTP - probably just a mat…
What I originally wanted was just a better web interface. Mine is an AVR 1913, and the web page served by the receiver is kind of slow. The shortcuts came later. I did indeed look at the requests the browser made when on the receiver's web pages. I also used packet sniffing to see what the Denon app on my phone did. I then wrote a simple web page that just showed current status, and had big buttons for the three sour…
Shortcuts is pretty hard to use but it is possible to POST. Here's one of my shortcuts https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/81229c80b3ec4c32bec866e2b8f...
Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator
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Much, much more likely. The only acquisition I can think of that Apple has allowed to continue to exist is Shazam.
The only acquisition? Emagic, the original maker of Logic was acquired some 20 years ago and now Logic is one of if not the flagship software product sold by Apple
My ability to think of examples obviously isn't that great.
I still don't see where it fits into the lineup. If there's still a PixelMator Pro in 6 months, I'll be surprised, but it won't be the first time I'm completely wrong about something.
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#584Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I originally wanted was just a better web interface. Mine is an AVR 1913, and the web page served by the receiver is kind of slow. The shortcuts came later. I did indeed look at the requests the browser made when on the receiver's web pages. I also used packet sniffing to see what the Denon app on my phone did. I then wrote a simple web page that just showed current status, and had big buttons for the three sour…
Shortcuts is pretty hard to use but it is possible to POST. Here's one of my shortcuts https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/81229c80b3ec4c32bec866e2b8f...
Interesting. The commands that I caught in my packet sniffing were POSTing text/xml content with the body an XML representation of the commands.
Looks like I missed a more normal form interface.
Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator
#585>it’s crazy what a small group of dedicated people have been able to achieve over the years from all the way in Vilnius, Lithuania Silly segway, but at least the codebase, IP (and maybe the dev team ?) might get somewhere safe to stay. Call me a Cassandra, but the situation in the Baltics is not guaranteed to be safe in the next few years, especially given the probable results from a certain election in a few days. O…
Yeah, it’s a silly segway. The team could have moved somewhere “safe” at any time before the acquisition lol. I’m from the Baltics as well, we are not moving anywhere from our land, photo editing features can wait.
Given the results of the election, I pray you be right and my fears be wrong.
Stay safe.
Re: Apple acquires Pixelmator
#586Unsurprising. Just looking at their website it's full of the same marketing hubris that Apple is famous for, even down to using the exact UX/styling that Apple trends towards on their own site.
There's plenty of free alternatives like rawtherapee, I guess Apple's marketing style really does work. Hmmm, taking note.
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#587I'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…
It's not that unique—a lot of Apple-ecosystem developers take heavy inspiration from Apple's design language.
It makes sense to me now, waving the same colour flag makes you allies, so to speak. Or money.
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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.
Demand for X goes up when prices for X go down.
First day of Econ 101.
If X consists of two complementary components, A and B, then if the price for either A or B goes down, then the total price for X goes down, demand for X goes up. Which means demand for A and B went up.
Even if the price of only one of A or B went down.
So if the price of A goes down, demand for B goes up.
If software prices go down, then demand for the hardware to run that software on goes up.
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The first thread is large, for sure, but is it relevant? Why do all of these have to do with pixel art, which is something you probably should do in a pixel art editor (Aseprite[0] is great, cheap and deserves your support)? If this is indeed an issue overall it would be very ironic because the Affinity suite of products are (as far as I understand) way more focused on and enable a non-destructive workflow than Photo…
"Pixel art?" They all have to do with photo (bitmap, rather than vector) editing. I sincerely have no idea what you're talking about.
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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…
… didn’t Apple switch away from Nvidia, push for OpenCL and keep Adobe in the rain when their new release was all super optimized for Nvidia? And I think heavily push for their proprietary video and image editing software? But Adobe rewrote its codebase and had the better product after all. And that was 15+ years ago? One article from back in 2010: https://nofilmschool.com/2010/07/apple-snubs-adobe-again-wit...
Yes they did.
But any fact that would paint Apple in a bad light will be silenced here.
The truth is that no matter how good of a player Adobe would be, Apple would still be trying to fuck them over because Apple's greed is infinite.
Adobe's switch to subscription pricing is very annoying, but at least it's not completely absurd compared to what you would pay previously if you bought the software outright and if you actually subscribe to the full package, you get much more value actually. And their competitors, while decent, are not really a replacement for professional work. Affinity is fine and all but after having used it a bit for a few projects, if I were to do it full time professionally, I would pay for Creative Cloud.
In comparison the extortionate pricing Apple practices on their RAM/storage upgrades is much worse.