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> Do you know any musicians? Yes > Pretty much all of them use Apple gear inasmuch as they work digitally, even iPhones and iPads. There's a big difference b

> Do you know any musicians? Yes > Pretty much all of them use Apple gear inasmuch as they work digitally, even iPhones and iPads. There's a big difference between one musician I know who uses their iPhone to watch YouTube videos to improve their guitar-playing technique - to another that uses their iPhone only to capture samples because their DAW setup couldn't possible fit on a screen that small. None of the musicians I know (games-industry folk, mostly) uses an iPad as a DAW because it's a massive usability downgrade from a desktop (e.g. plug-ins support in Logic-Pro-for-iPad is lacking; or simply quickly dragging-and-dropping files around directly from the filesystem; and the inability to use shared projects from a company LAN). (I'll admit I have zero exposure to this area, so please correct me if I'm overstating these issues). --------- > We need to can this "passive media consumption" nonsense with respect to Apple I remember when Apple added Stickers to iMessages - and was appalled that they had decided that normal users should not have the ability to make their own stickers (unlike every other chat program out there). I think Apple's attitude towards their users is very much a valid criticism.

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moritzwarhier 2y ago
> We need to can this "passive media consumption" nonsense with respect to Apple I remember when Apple added Stickers to iMessages - and was appalled that they had decided that normal users should not have the ability to make their own stickers (unlike every other chat program out there). I think Apple's attitude towards their users is very much a valid criticism Your point about stickers might have been true in the past, but it's wrong now. Since I don't use a lot of stickers, I looked it up, and it was added in iOS 17 last year.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  > I looked it up, and it was added in iOS 17 last year. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph9b4106303/ios https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph9b4106303/io... Sort-of - but what Apple actually did just reinforces my position: iOS does not let you provide your own pre-made ARGB images, it only lets you use their own photo-subject segmentation tool - whatever sticker image Apple Photos generates is at the behest of whatever their image-segmentation algorithm thinks is best: i.e. you lack full creative-control. (To be clear: I'm not decrying the sticker-from-photo feature, I think it's nifty - I'm just miffed that there's no way for me to simply provide my own raw images).

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moritzwarhier 2y ago

> We need to can this "passive media consumption" nonsense with respect to Apple I remember when Apple added Stickers to iMessages - and was appalled that they had decided that normal users should not have the ability to make their own stickers (unlike every other chat program out there). I think Apple's attitude towards their users is very much a valid criticism Your point about stickers might have been true in the past, but it's wrong now. Since I don't use a lot of stickers, I looked it up, and it was added in iOS 17 last year.

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> I looked it up, and it was added in iOS 17 last year. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph9b4106303/ios https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph9b4106303/io... Sort-of - but what Apple actually did just reinforces my position: iOS does not let you provide your own pre-made ARGB images, it only lets you use their own photo-subject segmentation tool - whatever sticker image Apple Photos generates is at the behest of whatever their image-segmentation algorithm thinks is best: i.e. you lack full creative-control. (To be clear: I'm not decrying the sticker-from-photo feature, I think it's nifty - I'm just miffed that there's no way for me to simply provide my own raw images).