But the math doesn't say anything. 440 ppi is much finer than the eye can resolve.
Guess what? Laser printers didn't stop when they exceeded 440 dpi. They went on: 600 dpi, 1200 dpi, 2400 dpi. Each prints in visibly higher quality than the one before.
Just because you can't see individual pixels doesn't mean that higher dpi doesn't improve the detail of shapes.
In summary, a quick release cycle is much better than a slow one, as market share is demonstrating.
Once a year is enough. And market share doesn't demonstrate any such thing, not least because the Apple iPhone series market share is LARGER than the Samsung S series.
I never saw the point of skinning. It's a complete waste of time. Then again, I'm not much influenced by fashion either, so it might be that I'm in a minority.
Except for that fact that at such short distances there will be a fair amount of distortion with the images not lining up
The images don't have to line up. They only have to cover a reasonable overlap. It's the job of panorama software to work out how to stitch them together, and they do a good job. And a handheld panorama swipe will be much further out of true than this, which is guided by a flat surface.
And people will move during the time in between shots, no matter how hard they try to remain still, resulting in extra, missing or at the very least warped body parts.
That's true. But these days people enjoy photographic artefacts - it's the reason Instagram is so successful. e.g. Some people will deliberately move around the table so they feature in the panorama twice.
Not only is a handheld panorama incapable of taking a shot of people around a table, ANY kind of handheld panorama misses out the person who's taking the shot. Which is usually the phone owner.
So it offers a little more than novelty. It offers a couple of things that were not possible with mobile phone panoramas before.
I suspect it knows where it is in the panorama by image processing, not compass/accelerator. Because it has to do that image processing anyway.
The proper shape the iPhone has is a flat bottom edge. Mobile phones tend to rotate when vibrating, but it's only good if it does so with the camera pointing somewhere useful.
It's not a toy for spinning a phone. It's software that spins a phone without any additional hardware needed. And does something useful with it too, that couldn't be done without the software. You can't take a panorama of people sitting around a table, by the hand holding method. Nor feature the person that would be holding the phone.
Anybody who wants to take advantage of the pros of iOS but also run a forbidden application would need to either carry two devices or buy a second computer to run Xcode and pay $99 per year to join the developer program.
Or jailbreak it. But most people don't have a problem. They don't want roulette - Russian or chat.
And if the concern is saving battery charge for making an urgent phone call, that's all the more reason to carry a tablet and a feature phone.
No, the concern is running out of battery. Period.
such as a music player that keeps its audio decoder service decoding silence instead of shutting off at the end of a song, but that's by no means limited to Android.
Nice try. You pick an unlikely and fringe case of wasted background processing that is also feasible on iOS. A much more likely, and indeed common case is an Android app that is repeatedly polling some web service. But you didn't use that, or one of the other common scenarios, because you know full well it can't happen with iOS. iOS uses a notifications system in order to perform this kind of operations for a background task, without the background task having to be woken up.
It's one of the big benefits of iOS vs Android. Android tends to slow down, and reduce battery life over time as more apps are left running in the background. iOS doesn't.
If you need to sell your own creations to yourself... that seems bad.
I'm just saying you chose "looks pretty" over "easier to read". It's not a biggie, it just relates to something I'm working on now, so it's a pertinent topic for me.
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But the math doesn't say anything. 440 ppi is much finer than the eye can resolve.
Guess what? Laser printers didn't stop when they exceeded 440 dpi. They went on: 600 dpi, 1200 dpi, 2400 dpi. Each prints in visibly higher quality than the one before.
Just because you can't see individual pixels doesn't mean that higher dpi doesn't improve the detail of shapes.
Put yourself back in 2007. Many people were not in 3G coverage areas.
In summary, a quick release cycle is much better than a slow one, as market share is demonstrating.
Once a year is enough. And market share doesn't demonstrate any such thing, not least because the Apple iPhone series market share is LARGER than the Samsung S series.
Why do you claim it's impossible when that's the very thing that's demonstrated in the first few seconds of the video link you responded to?
I know people don't RTFA, but not to look at the link of the post you're responding to?
I never saw the point of skinning. It's a complete waste of time. Then again, I'm not much influenced by fashion either, so it might be that I'm in a minority.
"Clearly the only solution is to only let the world's biggest telecoms provide Internet to people."
Straw man. It's a perfectly reasonable solution to weed out the "bad neighbours" rather than ban all smaller ISPs.
Population != number of people with access to the Internet.
True. So it's no use for anyone with a cinema 360 set-up then.
But hey, I'm being unnecessarily snarky. Good luck to your friends. Genuinely.
"A lot of people who don't want chat roulette and don't want Russian roulette want wardriving. "
A lot? Here's a dose of reality: Nearly no-one even knows what it is.
And there's no restriction on short term video rental. And it is in fact available. You didn't understand the outdated app guidelines list you read.
Except for that fact that at such short distances there will be a fair amount of distortion with the images not lining up
The images don't have to line up. They only have to cover a reasonable overlap. It's the job of panorama software to work out how to stitch them together, and they do a good job. And a handheld panorama swipe will be much further out of true than this, which is guided by a flat surface.
And people will move during the time in between shots, no matter how hard they try to remain still, resulting in extra, missing or at the very least warped body parts.
That's true. But these days people enjoy photographic artefacts - it's the reason Instagram is so successful. e.g. Some people will deliberately move around the table so they feature in the panorama twice.
Save your celebrations. The S4 isn't out yet.
Their iPhone mirror has just been undercut by a 99c app.
I hope that was a troll. Because surely no one can be that dumb.
RocketRabbit, you lost that little exchange badly. Roblimo came across as reasonable, you came across as a jerk.
Every time I go to a bar with friends.
Not only is a handheld panorama incapable of taking a shot of people around a table, ANY kind of handheld panorama misses out the person who's taking the shot. Which is usually the phone owner.
So it offers a little more than novelty. It offers a couple of things that were not possible with mobile phone panoramas before.
Yeah, people looking at the camera. That'll never catch on. /s
I suspect it knows where it is in the panorama by image processing, not compass/accelerator. Because it has to do that image processing anyway.
The proper shape the iPhone has is a flat bottom edge. Mobile phones tend to rotate when vibrating, but it's only good if it does so with the camera pointing somewhere useful.
It's not a toy for spinning a phone. It's software that spins a phone without any additional hardware needed. And does something useful with it too, that couldn't be done without the software. You can't take a panorama of people sitting around a table, by the hand holding method. Nor feature the person that would be holding the phone.
Anybody who wants to take advantage of the pros of iOS but also run a forbidden application would need to either carry two devices or buy a second computer to run Xcode and pay $99 per year to join the developer program.
Or jailbreak it. But most people don't have a problem. They don't want roulette - Russian or chat.
And if the concern is saving battery charge for making an urgent phone call, that's all the more reason to carry a tablet and a feature phone.
No, the concern is running out of battery. Period.
No, it's infinitely worse. The more spying they can tie together, the more complete the profile they are building up on you.
This is also solvable: file a bug report on the developer's issue tracker requesting a switch to GCM
You can ask, but you won't necessarily get. There's an awful lot of Android apps out there that are doing the wrong thing.
In any case, I don't see how that outweighs several application categories being absent from the App Store for reasons other than battery use.
What, EVERY time Android comes out worse, you go back to that old saw? The pros and cons of a single curated store are well known.
such as a music player that keeps its audio decoder service decoding silence instead of shutting off at the end of a song, but that's by no means limited to Android.
Nice try. You pick an unlikely and fringe case of wasted background processing that is also feasible on iOS. A much more likely, and indeed common case is an Android app that is repeatedly polling some web service. But you didn't use that, or one of the other common scenarios, because you know full well it can't happen with iOS. iOS uses a notifications system in order to perform this kind of operations for a background task, without the background task having to be woken up.
It's one of the big benefits of iOS vs Android. Android tends to slow down, and reduce battery life over time as more apps are left running in the background. iOS doesn't.
If you need to sell your own creations to yourself... that seems bad.
I'm just saying you chose "looks pretty" over "easier to read". It's not a biggie, it just relates to something I'm working on now, so it's a pertinent topic for me.
So it's to compensate for two other bad design choices.
Am I the only one that thinks that Android still seems like an amateurish hack?
No you're not. Android is the Windows of the mobile world.
(And funnily enough, Windows Phone isn't!)