So the WWDC is over, and the VisionPro glasses cost $3500, WTF! But even worse is the price difference on the MacPro vs the MacStudio.
So here is the Mac Studio almost fully loaded, except only 4TB hard drive instead of a possible 8 TB.
And here is the MacPro for 10,599!
You have to be kidding. I do want expansion, but at the price, is it really worth it? Looks like a Mac Studio is in my future.
So in the last week it started to look like the Mac Studio would get updated with M2 and the M2 Utlra, and it did, but Apple also released the Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, which seems to have the addition of PCI Slots and 2 extra thunderbolt ports.
I have needed a new Mac for a while as my iMac Pro is starting to show it’s age (and inability to clean it out), so one of these is in my Future, but which one, I don’t currently know. I need to look at the pages on the Mac Pro once I the web site gets updated after WWDC.
You can follow the WWDC Keynotes at MacRumors.
2 Extra Thunderbolt Ports and 2 HDI ports is great, though I wish there were more thunderbolt and USB ports.
From Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac, the Ryzen 7840 can beat Apple’s M2 chip, says AMD, but provides no proof. Of course no benchmarks nor battery charts, and it is energy efficiency that Apple Silicon is so good with. And also which M2? The lowest?
I still am not a big fan of Final Cut Pro, though I am an expert on it, so I doubt I will even try it out on the iPad, but some of the omissions do seem curious, like having limited color correction when DaVinci has full color (though missing the edit page, so you really can’t talk about DaVinci).
Still the fact that the already wonky Project naming schemes seems different here is literally insane. Just follow fucking industry standards already!
And no second storylines also seems pretty huge.
From Fernando Silva at 9to5Mac.
LumaFusion is really the first normal video editing program on the iPad that works like AVID and Premiere Pro (Not Final Cut Pro) and it just keeps getting better and more powerful.
I have edited on it and it was well worth using, though of course I love keyboard editing the most, so the iPad will always be a second class editor.
From Chip Loder at AppleInsider.
This is well worth your time, because it is often up to you to troubleshoot computer problems.
Apple will soon be releasing touch based Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for high end iPads, but as subscriptions at $4.99 a month or $49 a year.
Logic will work on any iPad with an A12 Bionic or later and Final Cut will only work 5th or 6th gen 12.9 inch iPad Pro, 3rd or 4th gen 11 in iPad Pro or 5th generation iPad Air.
I love that Apple is finally treating the iPad as pro as other companies, but I hate that it is subscription. I would rather pay $99 for a lifetime than have a monthly fee.
The month free is great, but if I had the program I might use it, but paying monthly for it, unless i am making a living off of it. And sure it is cheap monthly, but I just don’t see any subscription that I am not making a living off of.
Amber Neely has the news that Apple purchased an AI Video Compression company.
This is of course for iPhones, as the technology is made to cut file sizes in half while prioritizing Faces and Text and de-prioritizing backgrounds.
Better video compression is always to be looked for, but I am assuming this won’t be like ProRES HQ or 4444, but more highly compressed, so likely won’t be a great editing compression.
They all seem a bit too expensive still, but interesting from Jose Antunes.
OK, WTF APPLE! Now I have hated Apple’s sync to iPhone since Apple Music came around and music sync was moved to the finder. Not only is it super clunky and slow as all hell, you can’t force quit the process like you could by quiting iTunes, so I had to turn off automatic wifi sync when device plugged into power because it literally meant I could not restart my computer if something went wrong until sync was done.
And it was just weird to have sync in the finder, since you deal with your music and playlists in Music, why not have sync there? It just seems arbitrary, but it also never worked well.
I could not just sync music to my iPhone or iPad, I have to let the iPhone backup first, because any changes I make in the sync before a first sync finishes, just get completely ignored. And if this is the case, it shouldn’t let you make changes until the sync was completed! WTF!
And now with Mac OS Ventura’s 13.3 Update, things have gotten much weirder. iPad sync remains the same, where if I plug in my iPad, it shows up in the finder (and I have to go through trust issues with my phone and mac which I can’t seem to ever remedy no matter how many times I reset network settings). and it syncs, and there is at least something in the side of the finder showing something is going on.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the iPhone. I thought something was wrong with my iPhone when I tried to sync it after the update as it would not show up in the finder. Eventually I looked in Music and it does show up there.
So I said what the heck and clicked on the phone there and it gave a new window with a new button.
So it looks to be listing all music on my iPhone (quite a bit), but there is a button on the right hand side that says Sync Settings. And when I hit it, a finder window opens up with the previous iPhone Finder window allowing sync, the problem is that it doesn’t show up at all in the sidebar. So who knows where this window is supposed to be.
As you can see it doesn’t show up on the left hand side at all, so it’s initial sync, which takes a while, has absolutely nothing showing progress in the finder, which sync with the iPad shows. To see where it is, you have to go back to Music.
And once that finished you can then watch progress in the finder window on the initial sync it must do before you can sync any music to your iPhone.
So once this initial backup finishes I can make changes to the music on my iPhone, but only in this window, and as you can see my iPad shows up in the Sidebar, but not my iPhone.
I can only think that is this is a mistake. You want Sync to be in one place, not having to go back and forth between Music and the Finder to get a sync going.
And all I can think is that most people are using streaming music and not their own music (they must not have a huge library of Grateful Dead Live music), so they haven’t noticed this abomination that has happened for just the iPhone in Ventura 13.3.
I also posted at Apple’s support community, but I am pretty sure they don’t read their support community, so problematically they might not realize it is a problem. And I have reported it as a bug in Apple Feedback.