I have been having an issue with Mail on my iPad Pro of late. For some reason the mail app was having issues loading. I would open it and it would be empty and blank, and take up to a minute to load if it loaded without crashing. This also meant I was unable to send e-mail from other apps unless, I first got Mail itself to load. And this only started recently.
I had tried turning off all my mail except my Apple mail account, and even tried resetting network settings, but mail was not working correctly for the last couple of weeks, and it was driving me nuts. I was about to backup and wipe the ipad, but was waiting for the update to see if it fixed it.
Yesterday apple released iPad OS 15.6 and after updating the Mail issue has been solved, if only that was the only issue that recently cropped up on my iPad.
At the same time as the mail issue, Safari has started losing logins for web sites. Sites that for years have stayed logged in, must be logged in every time that I got to the site. So every time I use bing or google I need to log in again. Super frustrating, and unfortunately not fixed by 15.6.
Customization is really the best thing about Premiere Pro.
Of course AVID was the start of this because every editor doesn’t want to work the same way or have the same setup to work on, so being able to have your own setup is so important and AVID premiered this feature in the editing space.
The original Apple Final Cut Pro also had this feature.
The new Final Cut Pro, previously Final Cut Pro X, did away with this and wants you to edit their way. You don’t have as many ways to do things and you really can’t do a lot of customization in the workspace.
DaVinci Resolve has added editing to it’s color correction program and it is great, but it also does not let you customize, it is once again how they want you to edit. Yes you can use one or two monitors, but the windows are all very fixed where they are.
Premiere though is like AVID in customization, but adds to it, especially with so many available 3rd party extensions, like from AESCRIPTS, and it’s extensive keyboard shortcut options.
Scott Simmons is so right that Premiere’s customization abilities are it’s absolute best feature and it is a shame that DaVinci Resolve doesn’t allow the same customization.
If only it didn’t look like the next MacPro is probably a year away, meaning that Apple won’t be making it’s pledge to move everything to Apple Silicon in the next year.
Both Apple’s app stores for iOS and Mac have a huge problem, and that is subscriptions.
When the store started, it was all purchases, so you bought the app you owned it, but then they enabled in app purchases and subscriptions. Both are used to enable all features in apps, in fact some apps barely function or don’t function at without the additional purchase. And the subscription prices have been going up. It has gotten so bad, that there should be a way to filter out subscription apps, but that would cut into Apple’s profits too.
Apple acts like they are all noble, wanting privacy for their users, but then they hide subscription prices and in app purchase prices in the store.
The price is not shown in the first page, then hidden in a drop in the app info page itself. This info should be displayed on the main page, not hidden. And for subscriptions you should be able to not only filter them out, but set limits on subscriptions when you pay. An example being that you could say yes I subscribe but for only 1 month, and automatically cancel unless I re-subscribe. To have to know how to unsubscribe in the settings app is not putting the customer first, but instead Apple’s paycheck.
The app stores are getting so much pressure from regulators, but for the developer cut to apple and opening up devices, and not for things like subscriptions. The problem with 3rd party apps is already apparent on Android, with a plethora of malware, and how easily it can be installed, to steal your data. And with a phone acting as your digital wallet with ID and Bank Cards as well as your location, 3rd party apps could endanger so much in your life, but then it is not like Apple hasn’t allowed in scam apps that are still available in the app store! And even worse most congress people don’t understand technology enough to properly regulate it, other than who is paying them that is. I have no hope of US regulators making things better, but the EU is pretty consumer oriented, so maybe they will force changes.
App stores need to get better, and the companies are only worried about their bottom lines, not their customers (who become the actual product making the companies money in many ways), and regulators focus on the wrong things. Being worried about Apple’s cut, instead of how companies prey on people with subscriptions. And honestly they are Apple Devices, and an Apple built and maintained store, how can you say they don’t deserve a cut to allow access to their store.
And we have too many subscriptions in our lives. Before i could buy software and could wait on upgrades that weren’t absolutely necessary, now I have to pay or I lose use of the software. And I pay enough for Adobe Creative Cloud and Maxon’s Red Giant Plug-Ins (which have changed their licensing from 2 installs 1 in use to 1 install) and all the streaming services, plus phone bill, cable, rent/mortgage, that I can’t afford subscriptions for all my apps! At least Adobe Creative Cloud gets tons of upgrades, many subscription apps don’t get constant new features so why pay constantly?
Basically while it can be more energy efficient, it can also run more power and be more powerful. And it is larger than the previous generation, and it also includes ProRes acceleration instead of just H264 acceleration in the chip. Also it has more memory capacity, 24 vs 16 and at 100GB/sec vs 68GB/sec in the previous M1,
And the larger chip will have Max and Ultra versions and I am betting the quad version that will be in the next Mac Pro, which makes me happy that they didn’t yet release the MacPro as if it is based on this it will beat out the current Mac Studio, though will certainly be quite expensive.
So my iMac Pro has been crashing on shutdown. I shutdown and the computer seems to fully shut down, but then restarts and shows a crash. The crash kept showing com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily as the crash, so I realized it was hard drive related.
Now I have a lot of hard drives hooked up to my computer, not only for work, but for personal use as well, and I currently have 2 OWC Thunderbays hooked up to my mac, one Thunderbolt 3 which is mine and a Thunderbolt 2 that is works, and about 3 work hard drives, plus 4 external hard drives for storage in one 4 bay from OWC as well as s couple other storage and backup drives, and an external SSD as a media cache and about 4 work hard drives, and the internal on my iMac Pro. So a metric shit ton of hard drives.
Now I started disconnecting drives and trying things and got various results, with the problem occurring with different drives, but then finally it came down to the second OWC Thunderbay, the Thunderbolt 2 one. And if I turn that off the problem stopped happening. So I started wondering if it was the 2 different drives, and I wrote to OWC / Softraid as they are both OWC drives with softraid.
I gave them the crash report, and they told me something I didn’t know.
This is a kernel bug in MacOS. To avoid this, unmount and disconnect the USB drives before shutdown. (or your thunder bay). Its a known bug that 12 drives will cause a Mac to crash at shutdown.
Well how long has Apple had this damn issue. I know most people don’t get close to that, but I have surpassed it and ran the fuck into it.
Sure I can shut drives down first, but that is certainly a pain in the ass. And sometimes I have to shutdown the drives, then restart and then I can shutdown.
Color me frustrated, but OWC was fast and helpful.
