Macworld on that the iOS App Store needs to become more like the Mac

Jason Snell at Macworld has this interesting article.

And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month!

And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want.

Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US.

They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.

PostPerspective on using Unreal to create Shogun

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As I have said I greatly enjoyed Shogun, so this is very interesting, though I wish it was a little more in depth

Open AI has released Sora for video to paid subscribers

Open AI’s Sora has been released and paid users can give it a try. It can make video up to 1080 and 20 seconds long, though standard videos are 480, and you need open AI’s $200 a month Pro plan to do 1080. And it can remix uploaded video and even create sequences.

You can see examples at the Sora site.

Reviews seem pretty mixed.

Of course this is gen 1, and it will improve, but so far it is not really something to worry about.

Honestly I would love to see a day where you can have a local AI trained on your photos and videos, but companies don’t want that, they want subscriptions!