Victoria Song's discussions

yah you gotta be clever in a studio. we’ve basically partitioned it with furniture so there’s an office, bedroom, and living room/dining room

!! I did not see this in the manual when reviewing. Time to...write this down on my post-it because I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to shortcuts.

I mean, I guess you could say writing 2,000 or so words on deadline every day is “very very simple.” I would argue for just simple though, minus the two very’s.

Man, even with cloud storage + ton of streaming I’m coming up close on my 128GB. Really depends on the individual person and their usage. Some consumers are still wary re: the cloud. If you’re savvy, you could probably absolutely get away with 64GB—but you’d be surprised how many folks prefer local storage at all… Read more

You know what—I respect this take. Very well articulated, with some extremely valid points. 

Yes. Gizmodo’s grammatical style policy is to round up prices ending in 9 (i.e., $99, $99.99) to the next dollar up. It’s a psychological marketing ploy meant to trick consumers into thinking $879 at a glance is closer to $870 than $880. That marketing ploy might not work on you—but it does for a wide majority of… Read more

If the adamantium shield is truly indestructible, I will blog “Hey Guess What? You Finally Don’t Need a Case.”

COOL. 

Why do 2 Apple events when you can do...3+? :crying:

Woooo and that’s a wrap.

Until next month when we’ll likely have to come back for the ARM MacBooks. Sob.

That’s a lot of phone options. Interesting that XR and iPhone 11 are sticking around. 

$1000. Sigh. 

ICYMI

Also it’s... sigh. It’s enabled by 5G not Apple hardware. 

Some of what LiDar will enable, supposedly. 

Duh, of course Catie. How could I have missed that. 

Our video producer Matthew Reyes has a good point: HOw did they get those drone shots in that demo hrmmm?

DOLBY VISION ON YOUR PHONE. WHat. 

While I do love that the iPhone has some great automatic photo features, sometimes... it’s not what you want. Letting people have greater access to RAW photos might help out with that.

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