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Is it possible for an UN-Discovered Gem App to trigger a Breakup of a "curated" App Store, OR at least Upset the Status Quo ? We're ALL gonna find out real soon ! ... With your help, Photosets will Make History by Halloween ! Photosets simply needs your (honest) Rating to Make it Happen ! Thanks in Advance ! ... -----
BREAKING NEWS (Saturday, October 16th, 2021) FYI, Photosets v9.6, out tomorrow ?, will include a Brand New IAP, we call Photosets Development Fund. The description reads: "Help support Photosets' Models and Developers" We got the idea from the Apple / Blender announcement on Oct 14th. From the BIG picture perspective, ours is very similar ! We've already made the change in the App Store just in case we're ready to submit v9.6 to App Review by day's end today, Friday, October 15th. It's a One-Time-Purchase IAP (i.e., NON-Consumable IAP). We've priced it at $2.99 USD.
Please note that to expedite it, we simply RE-purposed what had been the Premium User IAP. As such, until Apple App Review approves the change, it will continue to say "Premium User" (in the App Store).
"Premium without the Premium Pricing" !
| |
v9.4 |
v9.5 |
v9.6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free App |
✔ |
- |
- |
| Paid App |
- |
✔ ($0.99 USD) |
✔ ($0.99 USD) |
| "Premium User" In App Purchase |
✔ ($5.99 USD) |
- |
- |
| "Photosets Development Fund" In App Purchase |
- |
- |
✔ ($2.99 USD) |
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● FYI, "110" App Update Approvals (for Photosets) just-since Jan 1st, 2020 ! ● Yet, (still) NO Love from Apple ! ● Is Apple afraid of ALL Burst Photo Camera Apps, OR just Photosets ? ...
The SnappyCam Syndrome Today, Friday, October 15th, 2021, we are Defining a New Mobile Industry Term. Best illustrated by example. In late 2013, Apple acquired a small technology company with a Burst Photo Camera App called SnappyCam. They subsequently did nothing with the Technology OR the application. And now, they've been Leapfrogged by another small technology company (i.e., us) with a Prime Example of it (i.e., Photosets). We believe it's now time to call Apple out on it ! And, you can think of this as just the first salvo ! I.e., One Across the Bow. -----
FYI, iOS 15 "throttles" Available DRAM 5-10% more Aggressively than iOS 14, & as such, Capture Performance is 5-10% lower with iOS 15 than with iOS 14 ! It is strictly an iOS issue, Photosets has NO control over it.
Over a Five Year Span it Adds Up !
| |
Factor |
Relative Capture Performance (w/o Secret Sauce) |
|---|---|---|
| @ 5% per year |
1.28x |
72% |
| @ 10% per year |
1.61x |
39% |
● The Baseline is the 2016 iPhone 7+ running iOS 10. ● iOS 10 did NOT throttle Available DRAM. ● Each major update of iOS since then has ! ● If it wasn't for Photosets' Secret Sauce-based Capture Engine, Burst Photo Capture Performance would suck, BIG time ! ● Photosets is the ONLY Camera App in the Universe that supports Full-Res 12 Mpx HEIC Photo Capture @ 30 fps with Perfect OR near-Perfect cycle-to-cycle Timing Performance ! ● As a reminder, OR for those who are UN-aware, Perfect OR near-Perfect cycle-to-cycle Timing Performance (i.e., what we refer to as "High-Precision" capture), is needed to craft High-Quality short-scene Videos from burst photo sets ! -----
FYI, as promised, we've Updated "our Graph" (with Projected Numbers for this year). And by this year, we (naturally) mean Apple's 4Q21 & 1Q22 Fiscal Quarters.
Updated version of our Custom "iPhone Unit Sales" Graph (click on it to view the 4K Res version)
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From our website Archieve (July 28th, 2021): FYI, (our) first-order approximation breakdown by Reported Segment (i.e., region). We don't know if there was Goverment Stimulus Checks & Enhanced UN-employment compensation being paid out Outside of the States earlier this year, but here, in the States, that definitely occurred & definitely played, in our opinion, a very BIG role in what was reported for the Americas, of which we believe the States accounted for 90% of it.
First-Order Approximation Breakdown of AAPL's 3Q 2021 Results
| Category |
Americas (44.0%) |
United States (39.6%) |
Europe (23.3%) |
Greater China (18.1%) |
Japan (7.9%) |
Rest of Asia Pacific (6.6%) |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone |
$17,411 |
$15,670 |
$9,220 |
$7,162 |
$3,126 |
$2,612 |
$39,570 |
| Mac |
$3,623 |
$3,261 |
$1,919 |
$1,491 |
$651 |
$544 |
$8,235 |
| iPad |
$3,242 |
$2,918 |
$1,717 |
$1,334 |
$582 |
$486 |
$7,368 |
| Wearables, etc |
$3,861 |
$3,475 |
$2,045 |
$1,588 |
$693 |
$579 |
$8,775 |
| Services |
$7,694 |
$6,925 |
$4,074 |
$3,165 |
$1,381 |
$1,154 |
$17,486 |
| Total |
$35,870 |
$32,283 |
$18,943 |
$14,762 |
$6,464 |
$5,395 |
$81,434 |
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From our website Archieve (July 27th, 2021): FYI, Apple's 3Q 2021 results compared to their 3Q 2018 & 2019 results. We do NOT include their 3Q 2020 results because we do NOT consider them to be valid. Our Take, we see alot of Pull Forward Demand, especially for 5G iPhones, which (naturally) does NOT bode well for the iPhone 13 family. Regardless, we give Apple a solid B+ grade for their 3Q 2021 results. One thing holding it back is that we're convinced a good portion of it was due to Goverment Stimulus Checks & Enhanced UN-employment compensation. And, Apple will NOT be able to provide Guidance because both programs have more OR less effectively ended.
| Category |
3Q 2018 |
3Q 2019 |
3Q 2021 |
vs. 3Q 2018 |
vs. 3Q 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iPhone |
$29,470 |
$25,986 |
$39,570 |
+34.3% |
+52.3% |
| Mac |
$5,258 |
$5,820 |
$8,235 |
+56.5% |
+41.5% |
| iPad |
$4,634 |
$5,023 |
$7,368 |
+59.0% |
+46.7% |
| Wearables, etc |
$3,733 |
$5,525 |
$8,775 |
+135.1% |
+58.8% |
| Services |
$10,170 |
$11,455 |
$17,486 |
+71.9% |
+52.6% |
| Total |
$53,265 |
$53,809 |
$81,434 |
+52.9% |
+51.3% |
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Photosets
Burst Photo Camera + short-scene Video Maker ! A rare, true Flagship-caliber Burst Photo Camera App since the early days of the 2016 iPhone 7+ ! High-Precision Full-Res Capture @ 30 fps ! Perfect OR near-Perfect cycle-to-cycle Timing Performance !
(iOS App Store here in the States)
● Key STATs (June 10, 2015 - Oct 16, 2021): ● # of Approved App Updates: 300+
| |
Downloads |
Updates |
|---|---|---|
| Worldwide |
49.1K |
776K |
| Here in the States |
13.3K (27.1%) |
418K (53.9%) |
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Photosets
High-Level Overview
| |
Base version of the app (i.e., Premium-Lite) (FREE) |
"Premium User" ($5.99 USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Max # of photos / set captured with the Camera (Burst Photo Camera) |
30 (1 second / photo set) |
60 (2 seconds / photo set) |
| Max # of "Video Scenes" per Video* (60-scene Burst Video Maker) |
10 (10 seconds / Video) |
60 (2 minutes / Video) |
| Max # of Photos per Set when Sharing via the Home View's per-Set Vertical ScrollView (w/o HSPX) |
10 |
60 |
| Max # of Photos per Set when Sharing via the Home View's per-Set Vertical ScrollView (w/ HSPX) |
30 |
60 |
| Concurrent Audio Capture support (Burst Photo Camera) |
- |
✔ |
| Add Captured Audio support (60-scene Burst Video Maker) |
- |
✔ |
| Optionally Add Captions to Video Scenes (60-scene Burst Video Maker) |
✔ |
✔ |
* When the Burst Video Maker's "Append Slideshow" switch is set to ON, Favorite-tagged Photos are Appended to the end of a Video, extending the Video's duration by 2 seconds for each Fav-tagged Photo. ● As a reminder, Photo Fav-tagging is performed in the app's Burst Photo Editor. ● Simply tap Star, then Apply, then Save, for each Photo you want to Fav-tag. ● You can Fav-tag up-to "5" photos per photo set.
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Photosets
Low-Level Overview (Items marked with a ✔ require the Premium User IAP to UN-lock certain product attributes).
| Feature OR Capability |
11 Pro Max, 11 Pro, 11/12/13, 12/13 mini |
12/13 Pro Max, 12/13 Pro |
M1 iPad Pro, iPad Air 4 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capture up-to "40" 12 Mpx photos / set (1.33 sec / set) |
✔ (21-40) |
✔ (21-40) |
✔ (21-40) |
| Capture up-to "60" 4K photos / set (2.0 sec / set) |
- |
✔ (26-60) |
- |
| Capture up-to "50" 4K photos / set (1.67 sec / set) |
✔ (26-50) |
- |
✔ (26-50) |
| Capture up-to "60" 8 Mpx photos / set (2.0 sec / set) |
✔ (31-60) |
✔ (31-60) |
✔ (31-60) |
| 60-scene Video Maker |
✔ (11-60) |
✔ (11-60) |
✔ (11-60) |
| Multi View Capture |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Concurrent Audio Capture |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Lossless Capture |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Advanced Tools Dialog |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| NO Default Watermark during Capture |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| Add your own Custom Watermark during Capture |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
● Advanced Tools Dialog: ● Intelligent Startup (✔) ● 4K60 Capture ● Higher Dynamic Range (DR) Capture ● RAW DNG Capture ● Audio Capture (✔) -----
60-scene Burst Video Maker (Made possible by the app's "High-Precision" Camera !)
| 3:4 |
9:16 |
16:9 |
Portrait (Photos) |
Landscape (Photos) |
Cinematic Video Stabilization |
Video Resolution |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Mpx |
4K |
12 Mpx |
4K |
|||||
| ✔ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
✔ |
- |
- |
2880 x 3840 |
| ✔ |
- |
- |
✔ |
- |
✔ |
- |
- |
1440 x 1920 |
| - |
✔ |
- |
- |
✔ |
- |
- |
✔ |
2160 x 3840 |
| - |
✔ |
- |
- |
✔ |
- |
- |
✔ |
1080 x 1920 |
| - |
- |
✔ |
- |
- |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
3840 x 2160 |
| - |
- |
✔ |
- |
- |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
1920 x 1080 |
● Each Video Scene is crafted from an independent Burst Photo Set. ● Each Video Scene crafted from Full-Res 12 Mpx photos is up-to 1.33 Seconds in duration. ● Each Video Scene crafted from 4K photos is up-to 1.67 Seconds in duration. ● Each Video Scene crafted from 8 Mpx photos is up-to 2.0 Seconds in duration. ● Each Video crafted from Full-Res 12 Mpx photos is up-to 1.33 Minutes in duration. ● Each Video crafted from 4K photos is up-to 1.67 Minutes in duration. ● Each Video crafted from 8 Mpx photos is up-to 2.0 Minutes in duration. ● You can optionally Append your Favorite-tagged photos to the tail-end of each Video. ● Each Favorite-tagged photo is presented for two seconds. ● Use the app's Editor to Favorite-tag up-to "5" photos per set. ● To capture more than "30" photos per set with the app's Camera, both the Power User & the Intelligent Startup switches MUST be set to ON.
.hspc File Format for adding per-Video Scene Captions (comma between each item, semicolon at the end of each line)
| |
Set Number |
Caption |
X Pos |
Y Pos |
Font Size |
Font Color |
Font Type |
Photo Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Required |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Optional |
- |
- |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
● If xPos & yPos are specified, they both must be in the range of 0.0 to 1.0, where {0.0, 0.0} is Top Left, & {1.0, 1.0} is Bottom Right. ● If Font Size is specified, it must be greater than 10, otherwise it defaults to 100. ● If Font Color is specified, it must be RGB in Hex, & must start with #. ● For example, #FF0000, to specify Red. ● If the Photo Range Min is set to 101, the Photo Range Max represents a Fav-tagged photo.
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Multi View Capture ● MVC supports (1) Master + up-to (3) Slaves per MVC session. ● Each MVC Slave streams their Camera's Live Preview to the MVC Master. ● The MVC Master controls the Camera Shutter on ALL participants in the MVC session. ● As a reminder, MVC is strictly ONE Camera View per iPhone. ● Photosets TV, our FREE macOS app, is currently the ONLY supported MVC Master.
| Phase |
Local Networking |
Wide Networking |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peer-to-Peer |
Infrastructure |
Peer-to-Peer |
Infrastructure |
|
| 1 |
✔ (via Personal Hotspot) |
✔ |
- |
- |
| 2 |
✔ (via Personal Hotspot) |
✔ |
- |
✔ (via Cellular) |
| |
MVC Master |
MVC Slave |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Photosets (on ANY Tier 1 iPhone) |
✔ (near-future) |
✔ (Beta) |
|
| Photosets TV |
Macs |
✔ (Beta) |
- |
| AppleTV |
✔ (near-future) |
- |
|
| Cosmosent "Rocket" Wi-Fi 6E Burst Photo Camera |
- |
✔ (near-future ?) |
|
| Mode |
Tier 1 iPhones |
Other iPhones with 2.9 GB OR more of DRAM |
iPads with 2.9 GB OR more of DRAM |
Macs running Photosets TV |
Cosmosent "Rocket" Burst Photo Cameras |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master |
✔ (up-to 2 MVC Slaves) |
- |
- |
✔ (up-to 3 MVC Slaves) |
- |
| Slave |
✔ |
TBD |
TBD |
- |
✔ |
Who Controls OR Sends What ?
| Mode |
Remote Shutter Control |
Live Preview |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| ACKs |
Data |
||
| Master |
✔ |
✔ |
- |
| Slave |
- |
- |
✔ |
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Key Notes for Photosets'
CPU Benchmark Test The most important thing to know is that if your iPhone OR iPad had been idle for awhile, you can Quickly Boost its Performance simply by Re-Running the Test once OR twice. Focus on the Capture fps number first, & Re-Run the Test until you see that number settle-out (i.e., NOT change much). The second most important thing to know is that the feature Records your Max Results. Whenever you see a checkmark next to an fps number, that means you are either at Max, OR within 1% of Max. Also, if you ever see the top progress bar in blue, that means your iPhone OR iPad encoutered a memory issue (during the cycle), & as such, for the cycle, the Test will process less than "40" photos (& NOT Record the Result).
Our (Best) 11 Pro Max Test Results (whenever you see four checkmarks in the Test Results Dialog your iPhone OR iPad is Ready for Highest Capture Performance)
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