Multiple reviews of Apple’s new $1,599 Studio Display were less than impressed with the quality of the built-in webcam, but that’s due to a software issue for which Apple says a fix is on the way.
Featuring the A13 Bionic chip, Studio Display delivers amazing experiences with its highly advanced camera and audio system. Apple touts it as “the ultimate video conferencing display” as it includes a 12MP Ultra Wide camera with 122° field of view, an ƒ/2.4 aperture, and features Center Stage, which automatically keeps users centered in the frame as they move around for even more engaging video calls.
Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica:
We noted that the camera’s image quality was passable for video calls, but it produced grainier pictures with worse detail than images from front-facing iPhone cameras or even decade-old 1080p webcams like Logitech’s C920.
Apple has confirmed to multiple outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, that the Studio Display webcam’s image quality is being affected by a software bug and that the company is working on a fix.
Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber shares slightly more detail… the Studio Display’s webcam quality issues were due to “a bug introduced at the last minute” and that the software update should make the webcam’s image quality look about as good as it does on iPads with the same wide-angle Center Stage-compatible camera.
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It just works… yeah, right!
Hubris, touh art an evil bitch.
It’s obvious you’re pretty smart.
Are we allowed to criticize your poor post quality control?
Tim Cook’s Crapple.
How about some justice, equity, and inclusion for coders who can actually fucking code, soy boy?
Maybe a little less time on diverse emojis and social justice, Timmy???
Based on the votes, it’s looks like some idiots want more diverse emojis and social injustice. This kind of stupidity gets dementia patients installed in the White House
Make America Grg Again!
The Treasonous orange person isn’t coming back his app failed hope the programmers got paid up front…
For the umpteenth time people, Apple does NOT — repeat DOES NOT — decide what emojis are to be added to the ever-growing list. Those decisions, woke and otherwise, are made by the Unicode Consortium, an nonprofit that coordinates interoperability of various languages and computer systems.
Don’t like the fact you can now choose the skin tone of your “thumbs up”? Or the “food belly” icon looks like a pregnant man? Complain to them. It’s not up to Tim Cook or anyone else at Apple.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Consortium
You are correct WriterGuy. But it is unclear why the jump back to hieroglyphics is so strongly supported by Apple or any electronics maker. It is a throwback to unclear, hard to archive written communication. There are many reasons it was abandoned by the poor Egyptians long ago.
Apple has also been a member of other tech and NGO consortia (USB, BluRay, Red, and so on). Those get intermittent priority (or less) from Apple. What makes Unicode so special?
It would be refreshing to see Apple get consistent with other things that matter to more people. Apple doesn’t do a good job on font management and selection anymore, let alone hardware consistency. The Mac was once celebrated as a platform that brought art and calligraphy and proper typesetting to the desktop. Now I can’t hardly find or adapt an appropriate font without external 3rd party software. iOS is far worse, you get no font selections. How about displaying fonts as WYSIWYG selections across all apps on Apple platforms? How about implementing USB-C on all iOS devices the way they do on Macs? Prioritizing Unicode over the fundamental stuff is puzzling.
Danox, you are a strong and principled woman, and you should be very proud of your Trump h8te. Well done. Stay strong, Dani.
That hate extends to Trump’s brother Putin too, ask Rudy about not getting paid by Little Lord Fauntleroy.