I'm an Android user for 10 years now but.. every time one of those websites/ads appears its always from the same company.<p>Apple is so ahead of the other companies on actually promoting their stuff.
These bite-sized video that show the real UI are a great idea. It seems obvious now in retrospect for them to execute something like this - I know so many iPhone shooters that will love this resource.
I've been an Android user since Nexus S (Android 2.3), Nexus 4, Nexus 5, all the way up to Nexus 5X (7.1.x).<p>The LG made Nexus 5X bricked (suddenly rebooted and never boots again) at 13 months old due to a known hardware fault, there is a lawsuit against LG in California <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/lg-bootloop-defect-lawsuit-expands-to-cover-g5-v20-and-nexus-5x-devices/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/lg-bootloop-defe...</a><p>My Nexus 5 had power button issue (it automatically switch off, sigh...) Nexus 4 build quality was bad, too.<p>I lost 3-4 days worth of photos (was travelling and didn't backup). Luckily I was able to boot once (out of 40 attempt) after it bricked by giving it some heat (thermal issue). Backed up the photos before it quickly died again (there are videos on YouTube to fix the problem using heat gun), finally I decided I've had enough with crappy Nexus phones (I am fine with Android though). Pixel / Pixel XL is more expensive than iPhone 7 or plus, really cannot justify.<p>Finally I've moved to iOS again, after 6-7 years as I decided not to manually flash phone OS and root any more (I have my Arch Linux workstations and MBPs). My requirements for a phone comes down to:
- Reliable hardware and high quality finish
- Strong hardware based/accelerated encryption
- Fingerprint recognition and authentication
- Stable and Swift OS (greatly improved with APFS, regained faith in Apple)
- Good camera - the best camera is the one with you
- Long battery life (ideally support both fast charge and wireless charge)<p>The iPhone 7 Plus meets all. So far I've been on it for 2 weeks. iOS definitely has better attention to details and better UX at the cost of more control over the OS, a lot of apps on Android that doesn't support fingerprint authentication support that on iOS, I was surprised to find out.<p>The only complains are that 1. there is no HN client as good as Materialistic (let me know if you know any...) 2. no strongSwan native client (Gboard has introduced more language support so it's no longer a big concern). Other than that I am happy.
Wow, these are really great tips for anybody thinking that their photography is a bit stagnant. Thumbs up to Apple for providing a simple, creative, and 60fps <3 videos that could be generalized to any camera.
I'm missing the "How to shoot one-handed at a concert"[0]. I'd love to have zoom not be a pinch only<p>[0] since my other hand is holding my drink
I love Portrait mode and have taken some photos with it that I am happy with, but really, it would be nice if they also showed us how they professionally lit that cafe, because you are never, ever going to take a photo that looks like that in the real world.
Is there a technology to.... say.... zoom-out more? For example, when you take a selfie, sometimes things are too close.. I wish I could 'somehow' zoom-out, but I wouldn't have a starting clue how that would be achieved.
Nothing happens when I click on any of the play buttons. Is anyone else having this problem? This isn't the first time an apple.com site didn't work correctly for me at all...<p>Do I have to be on a Mac or iPhone to view it or something?
Should be made more obvious that the <i>actual useful content</i> of the page needs to be scrolled down to. A more useful link (that scrolls to the content) to give friends family might be <a href="https://www.apple.com/iphone/photography-how-to/#section-card-grid" rel="nofollow">https://www.apple.com/iphone/photography-how-to/#section-car...</a>
Funny how they still use the old iOS theme on their player's seek bar.
It has been years since the introduction of new UI and I still find it suck. Look at the share button on "Edit selfie" video, it just feels like a toy design project of some students.
Apple always comes up with great soundtracks to their ads/infomercials. Sometimes made by themselves/exclusively for them.<p>I wish they would give developers a royalty free library for our App demo videos.
In "how to shoot a group portrait" (or all of them, honestly ;P), one of the steps should be "turn the damned camera 90° so everyone is actually in the frame".
Seems like I don't have the option to choose portrait, nor do I have the option to change exposure, is this a guide for all iPhone 7's or just the iPhone 7 plus?!
This is amazing. I wish the selfie video would talk more about angles. My girlfriend tells me my angles are always wrong :/<p>Also, Google should do this for Pixel.
Look; I'm a long time Apple user and they have a great camera...But seriously; this is like their core thing for several years. They need to implement a rule that requires scaling performance and battery life at parity with camera improvements...
There was a time when Apple products were user friendly but now we need guides. They said technology would ease our lives. I'm disappointed with this shift at Apple where they want to look and sound cool rather than be useful.
Luckily I have a Google Pixel, the only thing I need to know to shoot a perfect photo, in fact an even better photo than an iPphone 7 could ever take, is:<p>1. Open Camera app<p>2. Take photo<p>It is really that simple, no jokes :)<p>Maybe I should create a website with these instructions.. mhh..
This is a stellar example of marketing gone wrong by a company that's out of touch with a vast number of their customers <a href="https://phdify.com/essay-types" rel="nofollow">https://phdify.com/essay-types</a>. Yet it simply doesn't matter. Apple's massive revenue stream and its astronomical cash hoard makes them impervious to various failures here and there. It's great to be Apple