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FYI, this webpage contains ONLY our more-recent News Updates. Older News Updates have been moved to our secure servers. -----
News Update : 5 PM (La Jolla-time) Friday, July 26, 2024 FYI, for some UN-known reason, neither major Political Party here in the States has yet figured-out that until one of them "Secures the High-Ground" WRT the U.S. National Debt problem, Trump & Harris are very-likely gonna run neck-and-neck right up until Election Day. As a reminder, it's the very youngest voters who get screwed-over the most by the U.S. Gov't WRT the National Debt & the Climate. As such, what are the Republican & Democratic parties waiting for ? It's time to make this a Top Priority ! -----
News Update : 9 AM (La Jolla-time) Friday, July 26, 2024 FYI, we've been Asked & have Agreed, to list the things we're currently working on. 1.) Adding "Automated" Capture & Video Maker support (to Photosets). i.e., the ability for Users to "Automatically" craft "Dynamic" Short-form Videos with 3-60 video scenes. 2.) Adding Multi View Capture (MVC) "master" support for the OLED M4 iPad Pros (to Photosets). 3.) Adding "External Long-Press" Camera Shutter support (to Photosets). 4.) Adding Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) "matrix multiplication" support (to Photosets). 5.) RE-surrecting our "Timmy" app, the planet's ONLY per-Qtr, per-Device iPhone Unit Sales Estimator app. 6.) Moving forward with our Simpsons-like "Trump TV" app & effort. As a reminder, the intent is to put "real" visibility on the National Debt problem AND the Climate Crisis. 7.) Marketing & Business Development activities for Photosets, Timmy, & Trump TV. 8.) Working with the U.S. Dept of Justice. i.e., doing our part to help Break Up Apple's App Store monopoly. -----
News Update : 8:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Thursday, July 25, 2024 Two things to announce today: 1.) We hope to (soon) influence the Presidential Election here in the States ! To do so effectively, we must first challenge Apple in the Court of Public Opinion ! Sorry Tim ! Because of pressure that we'll be applying, Tim's gonna have to soon Fess Up to the A11/A12 Performance Controller NEON Access Chip Bug, aka "Phil's Bug," which we Discovered, & Apple's Cover Up of that Chip Bug. i.e., suppressing the entire third-party Burst Photo Camera App "category" in their tightly-controlled, "curated" iOS App Store (monopoly), so that knowledge of that Chip Bug didn't get out. Once that happens we'll have Name Recognition. Sufficient, we believe, to put real visibility on at least two issues, the National Debt problem, & the power generation requirements of Generative AI server farms, which if left UN-check'd, will significantly expedite the pending Climate Crisis. 2.) A reminder, Photosets v10.31, out soon, adds "Automated" Capture & Video Maker support ! Craft Short-form Videos with 3-60 scenes ! Including with concurrently captured Audio Data ! -----
News Update : 1 PM (La Jolla-time) Wednesday, July 24, 2024 FYI, we'll soon be out at Windansea beach, field testing the code updates for Photosets v10.31. High tide just passed, at 12:41 PM. Low tide isn't until 6 PM. Ocean temp is just under
News Update : 9 PM (La Jolla-time) Tuesday, July 23, 2024 FYI, we came up with an idea today about "extracting a concession OR two" from the two leading Presidential candidates. Simply put, neither Donald Trump OR Kamala Harris can win without the support of Independents. Yet the Political Parties that they represent NEVER mention some important topics that many, perhaps most, Independents care deeply about. One being the out-of-control National Debt problem. One "concession" we want, is for both Parties to present a (detailed) Fix to the Problem. i.e., A plan for getting the National Debt, which currently stands at $35T USD & is going up by $1T USD every 100 days, to a more-manageable (& stabilized) $29T USD, & to do so within five years. The other "concession" is related to the Climate. If left UN-check'd, the power generation requirements for Generative AI (server farms) will significantly expedite the Climate Crisis. Few are talking about this very important topic. Are we as a Country ready for a Mass Migration of U.S. Citizens away from the low-lying coasts ? That could be our reality ONLY 10-15 years from now. NOT a Doomsayer, just being practical. ALL the facts are there. UN-fortunately most aren't paying much attention. And, for some UN-known reason, Politicians here in the States usually ONLY focus on short term "things". We hope to change that, with added focus on the two "things" we've described,
the National Debt & the Climate. Sometimes ALL that's needed is alittle momentum. A "bump start," for example. -----
News Update : 5 PM (La Jolla-time) Tuesday, July 23, 2024 FYI, it's becoming apparent to us that the Next-Gen iPhones that Apple will announce in Sept
will very-likely flop. In large-part because of the recent rumors regarding the subsequent Next-Gen iPhones that Apple will announce in Sept of Next Year. Strictly based-upon (rumored) product attributes, they are significantly more attractive. As such, we now expect most high-end iPhone owners to pass on upgrading later this year, in favor of upgrading in Sept OR Oct of next year. Please see our custom graph on our App Store Critics Corner webpage. And BTW, that graph is a direct result of our work on our Timmy app, the planet's ONLY per-Qtr, per-Device iPhone Unit Sales Estimator App. Which BTW, Apple pulled from their App Store & gave us a Total BS reason for doing so. We're hoping to resurrect it. -----
News Update : 11:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Monday, July 22, 2024 FYI, one more thing to announce today. Because TikTok, an app with known security risks to U.S. citizens, is the most-popular new app during Tim Cook's 10+ year reign as CEO of Apple, that ALONE could sink ANY chances Cook might have to becoming the Presidential candidate on the Democratic side. At a Min, it will require some serious explaining on Cook's part. -----
News Update : 11 AM (La Jolla-time) Monday, July 22, 2024 FYI, as you very-likely know, News hit the Wires early today that Apple is scaling-back its AppleTV+ efforts, after having having spent $20B USD on creating content for its streaming service, with very-little payback for that investment. So naturally, that gets added to the existing string of (BIG Ticket Item) Failures under Tim Cook. With the Apple Car & the Vision Pro headset being the most notable. Just-before the NFL Draft back in late April, Apple was trading at ~$164/share. Currently, AAPL is trading at ~$224/share. We attribute ALL of that +$60/share to AI Hype, nothing more. The problem is the Investment Community has (significantly) Over-Promised what Apple will deliver. As such, we expect AAPL will trend back to ~$164/share when that becomes Common Knowledge. On a Side Note, regarding Politics here in the States, we believe Kamala Harris will run neck-and-neck with Trump right up to Election Day. Biden had NO chance of winning, Harris has some chance of winning, but we believe Trump is in the driver's seat. We stand by our statement that Tim Cook has a better chance of beating Trump than Harris. See our tweet of yesterday. But he (& Schiller) must Fess Up to the (Burst Photo Camera App "category") Cover Up, & Pay Up, BEFORE he can be considered a truly viable & credible Democratic Presidential candidate. Apple dug themselves into a Hole, a Deep Hole, & we're NOT letting them out of it. NOT unless we get Comp'd ! Do NOT be surprised if we are Responsible for, & get Credit for, the Break Up of Apple's App Store monopoly. We have a better set of data points to make that happen than ANY other App Dev on this planet. And BTW, there could be a conspiracy going with at-least Apple & Google, & possible also with X/Twitter. -----
News Update : 8 AM (La Jolla-time) Sunday, July 21, 2024 FYI, one more thing to announce today. July 24th is our Founder & CEO's 3-month point from Resurfacing Surgery on his right hip joint. Performed by Dr. Scott Ball at UC San Diego Health's Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla on April 24th. The gist of this is that our Founder & CEO is now fully healed & eager to help take Photosets to the next level. -----
News Update : 7 AM (La Jolla-time) Sunday, July 21, 2024 Three things to announce today: 1.) Sometime yesterday, Photosets lost its App Store Rating. And, it's NOT the first time it's happened. It's something that Apple does to Photosets when they don't like something we've said. Could be related to our comments regarding the origins of Apple's Live Multicam feature, OR could be related to our tweet trying to get Tim Cook to talk to President Biden. OR, perhaps, due to Trump pressuring Cook, related to our upcoming Simpsons-like "Trump TV" app, for which we own the iOS rights to. 2.) We're still working on the next update of Photosets, v10.31, out soon. At a Min, it adds "automated" Capture & Video Maker support. That part's done. It "may" also include Multi View Capture (MVC) "master" support for the new OLED M4 iPad Pros. That part's NOT done. Regardless, we won't submit v10.31 to App Review until AFTER we've crafted new App Store screenshots. 3.) We intend to challenge Apple in the Court of Public Opinion ! Our goal is to be Responsible for, & get Credit for, Breaking Up Apple's App Store monopoly. At least here in the States. And most importantly, we have sufficient Ammo (i.e., relevant data points) to make it happen. Off the Radar of most but should NOT have been. And BTW, Apple's ability to Fully Control the Narrative is precisely what got them into trouble. They dug themselves into the Hole. That's what happens when the wrong people are running their App Store, & they don't think things through. -----
News Update : 12 Noon (La Jolla-time) Saturday, July 20, 2024 FYI, yesterday we devoted most of our Time & Energy to using & mastering Apple's new Live Multicam feature, which we're convinced some parts of which they "leveraged" from Photosets' Multi View Capture (MVC) feature. E.g., the pairing code. Both are based-upon the same underlying wireless protocols. Live Multicam captures Video, while MVC captures short (High-Precision Timing) Bursts of Photos. And very specifically, we're looking into ways that we may be able to combine the two. E.g., Live Multicam for Long-Form Video Scenes & MVC for Short-Form Video Scenes. And for reference, we define Photosets' "Max Capture-Duration" as the Demarc. Referring to the second & third tables below, & using 4K30 as an example, the Demarc for the 1x Capture-Duration (App Store) version of Photosets is 0.833 seconds per video scene. For the 3x Capture-Duration (In House #2) version of Photosets it's 2.5 seconds per video scene ! For Live Multicam, we're using our 11" OLED M4 iPad Pro as "the (session) master". For MVC, we're using one of our M1 Macs as "the (session) master". For both, we're using 15 Pro Max iPhones as "the (session) slaves". As a reminder, the slaves can only be active for one of the two features at a time (i.e., Apple's Live Multicam OR Photosets' MVC, but NOT both). To make it work, a User simply needs one OR more supported iPhones,
one OLED M4 iPad Pro, & one M-series Mac. Plus access to ALL the relevant software. For Live Multicam, that means Apple's Final Cut for iPad v2 ($4.99/month) & Final Cut Camera (App). For MVC, that means Photosets for the slaves & possibly also for the master. Currently, the ONLY supported MVC master is our companion macOS app for Photosets,
Photosets TV / Studio, which isn't currently available to the General Public. We're actively working on adding MVC master support for the M4 iPad Pros. -----
News Update : 6:30 PM (La Jolla-time) Friday, July 19, 2024 FYI, news of iPhone Mirroring hit the wires earlier today, which prompted us to Kick Off a Deep Dive into it. And specifically, whether it can be used effectively as an External Long-Press Camera Shutter Controller for Photosets' Burst Photo Camera. As a reminder, Photosets supports two Camera Shutter Options, Single Tap (Blue) & Long-Press (Red), where Long-Press is a First-In / First-Out Circular Buffer that holds the most-recent "n" captured photos.. -----
News Update : 8:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Thursday, July 18, 2024 FYI, today we simply want to point-out that one of the things that makes Photosets extra special is its support for Capturing & Collecting "Dynamic" ML Training Data, made possible in large part by the app's High-Precision Timing Capture Engine & Photoset-File Support. We mention this today because we're now looking into "automating" the process. Please see the two relevant tables below for reference. Also today, we want to remind ALL that the two men who run Apple's App Store, Tim Cook & Phil Schiller, have NO Engineering OR Software Development experience, & NO "Camera App" Domain/Application/Use-Case expertise. As such, we believe it is fair to say that Apple's App Store has been Playing App Store consumers, high-end iPhone owners, & AAPL shareholders, for Fools. And most-important of ALL, we believe we can prove it. -----
News Update : 7:30 PM (La Jolla-time) Wednesday, July 17, 2024 FYI, we took out a Loan today, our first-ever, to help us take Photosets to the next level. We can now be much more proactive with our efforts & our plans. And while the Terms of the Loan were attractive, we do have to pay it back. As such, expect the 1x Capture-Duration (App Store) version of Photosets to remain Priced at Five U.S. Bucks. $15M USD / ~$5 USD = 3M units That's how many New Paid Downloads we soon hope to achieve. Please see the two relevant tables below for reference. -----
News Update : 9 AM (La Jolla-time) Wednesday, July 17, 2024 FYI, we've been Asked & have Agreed, to focus on the next update of Photosets, v10.31, until released. As a reminder, v10.31 adds "Automated" Burst Photo Capture & Video Maker support ! With it, Users will be able to Make "Dynamic" Short-form Videos "automatically" with 3-60 video scenes ! And that's with concurrently captured Audio Data ! We've moved our "Timmy" & our "Trump TV" apps (mostly) to the back-burner. We'll devote 5% of our daily Time & Energy to each, but NO more than that until v10.31 is released. Also, we've pivoted Photosets back to its Regular Price. ONLY two people got it yesterday when it was FREE, Go Figure ! -----
News Update : 2 PM (La Jolla-time) Tuesday, July 16, 2024 One more thing to announce today. We've resurrected our 2nd iOS app, called Timmy, the planet's ONLY per-Qtr, per-Device iPhone Unit Sales Estimator App. As a reminder, Timmy made its debut in the App Store in May of 2018, was (we're convinced) at least partially responsible for Apple's decision to announce on Nov 1, 2018, that they would NO longer report iPhone Unit Sales, & was subsequently pulled by Apple (in their App Store) the day BEFORE their BIG iPhone announcement in Sept of 2019. And BTW, the reason that Apple gave us for pulling Timmy was Total BS. Apple simply didn't like that we had created an Algorithm that anyone with good knowledge of the smartphone market could use to fairly-accurately figure-out their own per-Qtr, per-Device iPhone Unit Sales "estimates". The better a person knows the smartphone market the better their estimates will very-likely be. And for the record, the reason we're resurrecting Timmy today is because of the recent outlandish market cap projections (for Apple) by some of the so-called Pro Stock Analysts who cover AAPL for a living. We would NOT be at ALL surprised if Apple is trading below a $2.5T USD market cap by this time next year. We simply do NOT believe most iPhone owners care much about Apple's (upcoming) AI features & capabilities. Pro Stock Analysts do, because they're caught up in it. i.e., living it. The typical Apple consumer is NOT. There is a BIG disconnect there. And we don't think the cellular service providers will be able to do much to change that. It's been awhile since Apple has had "real success" with a Next-Gen iPhone OR two: The 2014 iPhone 6 & 6+ and 2015 iPhone 6s & 6s+ had bigger screens. The 2017 iPhone X was Apple's first with an OLED display, a new design, & a higher price tag. Then came the first 5G iPhones in 2020. There the cellular service providers had real incentive to cut deals, which they did, & have since then. So now most if NOT ALL iPhone owners have a 5G iPhone. Good luck convincing them to upgrade AGAIN just to get Apple's AI Bells & Whistles. We simply do NOT see it happening. Please see our custom graph on our App Store Critics Corner webpage for background. -----
News Update : 8 AM (La Jolla-time) Tuesday, July 16, 2024 Five things to announce today: 1.) Surf is up here in San Diego today, so we plan to be out at Windansea (Beach) later today, & naturally, using Photosets to capture surfing & craft multi-scene Videos from the captured content. Sets are expected to be 4-6 feet today, with up-to 7 feet possible. 2.) We want to clarify that we're devoting (ONLY) 5% of our Time & Energy towards our Simpsons-like "Trump TV" series. 3.) We're looking into creating our own custom "TV channel". One that would be focused on teaching End Users how to quickly master Photosets. It's important to us to distance ourselves & Photosets (as much as possible) from Apple's tightly-controlled, "curated" iOS App Store. As a reminder, Photosets first-became a rare, true Flagship-caliber Burst Photo Camera App upon the release of the 2016 iPhone 7+, Apple's first true high-perf iPhone. Nothing wrong with the app, just with Tim Cook's App Store "monopoly". If Cook (& Schiller) want to suppress knowledge of a particular App or even a particular App "category," their "App Discovery" monopoly enables them to Fully Control the Narrative, & thus to do so. 4.) We've currently got Photosets priced at FREE. But that could change at ANY time. 5.) It puzzles us that NOT a single social media influencer has been able to take advantage of what Photosets offers. And since none have, we now intend to Fill the Void. -----
News Update : 8:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Monday, July 15, 2024 FYI, today we are announcing that we're stepping-up our efforts on our Simpsons-like "Trump TV" series, for which we own the iOS rights to. Key facts about it: 1.) Brought to you by a team of "Double Haters". i.e., ALL center-Right Republicans OR center-left Democrats. 2.) Intended to try to keep select Politicians "as honest as possible". 3.) Initial focus is the National Debt problem, which is NEVER mentioned by either Biden OR Trump. As a reminder, the National Debt currently stands at $35T USD, & it is going up by $1T USD every 100 days. We ask ALL to count how many times a Fix to the National Debt problem is mentioned during this week's Republican Convention. 4.) It's illegal to try to overthrow a Govt. But, it's NOT illegal to try to overthrow a Political Party (OR two). NOT Rocket Science ... The Extreme Right has too much power in the Republican Party. Likewise, the Extreme Left has too much power in the Democratic Party. 5.) We'll be using proceeds from the sale of the 1x Capture-Duration (App Store) version of Photosets to fund the efforts. -----
News Update : 8 AM (La Jolla-time) Sunday, July 14, 2024 FYI, today we are announcing that we've recently been able to convince Important Others that Photosets could become the "De Facto" Burst Photo Camera App for the iPhone, at least here in the States, & that alittle proper Marketing may be ALL that's needed to make it happen. And because that "convincing" has occurred coincident with us wrapping-up the R&D for the next update of Photosets, v10.31, we've now got a three-phased Roll-Out Strategy, first up, potential Corp Partners, then potential Investors, then App Store consumers. And BTW, as of today, we won't be moving forward with Private Label versions of the 2x Capture-Duration version of Photosets. Just like the 3x version, we're keeping the Features & Capabilities of that version In House. See the relevant tables
News Update : 8:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Saturday, July 13, 2024 FYI, today we've decided to Light a Fire under Tim Cook & Phil Schiller. i.e., we fully intend to get Apple to publicly disclose why their App Store NEVER recommends OR promotes third-party Burst Photo Camera Apps. We know the reasons. And we'll soon be publishing those reasons in a Clear & Concise document by day's end on Monday. It's NOT OK for Apple to cheat high-end iPhone owners & AAPL shareholders out of their respective benefits of the third-party Burst Photo Camera App "category," simply to Cover Up an A-series Chip Bug. i.e., the A11/A12 Performance Controller NEON Access Chip Bug, aka "Phil's Bug". Which we nicknamed after Phil Schiller, the man who runs Apple's App Store, because if Phil had done his job he could have prevented the Chip Bug in the first place. And if that had happened, Apple would NOT have felt compelled to try to Cover Up the Chip Bug. Tim & Phil are directly responsible for Apple leaving $113B USD of high-end iPhone revenue "on the table" over the years, simply because iPhone Upgrade Cycles have been longer than they could have & should have been. i.e., the decision by iPhone owners as to when to upgrade. Please see the custom graph on our App Store Critics Corner webpage. Photos on one end, Videos on the other end, & Burst Photos, preferably captured with High-Precision Timing, in the middle. From our perspective, Apple gets an A- for Photos, an A+ for Videos, but ONLY an D- for their Burst mode feature. And BTW, most years, it's Enthusiasm for Camera App Applications/Use-Cases that drives iPhone upgrades. i.e., the decision by iPhone owners as to when to upgrade. There is NO way to sugar coat it, Phil Schiller, a so-called "Apple Fellow," is a Half-Wit ! He didn't think through the decisions that he made ! How does that type of person become an "Apple Fellow" ? Make NO mistake, Tim Cook has some serious explaining to do. -----
News Update : 7:30 AM (La Jolla-time) Friday, July 12, 2024 For the sake of argument, assume we've pivoted to the Private Label-based Business Model we hinted at on Wednesday. As a reminder, that's strictly for the 2x Capture-Duration version of Photosets. From our perspective, what to do with the 1x Capture-Duration (App Store) version of Photosets then becomes the BIG UN-known. Do we keep it priced at $5.99 USD ? OR, do we set it FREE ? There are Pros & Cons for each option. Today, we've decided to set it FREE "on a temporary basis". And just as importantly, today we'll be stepping-up our Business Development efforts, related to the Private Label Business Model. -----
News Update : 5:30 PM (La Jolla-time) Wednesday, July 10, 2024 FYI, we may soon pivot to an industry-first Business Strategy, centered on Private Label versions of the 2x Capture-Duration version of Photosets. Our estimate of market value for that version is $1B USD. Please see the two relevant tables below for reference. Also, as a reminder, the next update of Photosets, v10.31, out soon, adds a brand-new method for crafting 4K (& above) Short-Form, multi-scene Videos ! "Automated" capture & multi-scene video maker support ! -----
News Update : 7 AM (La Jolla-time) Sunday, July 7, 2024 Two things to announce today: 1.) We've been Asked & have Agreed, to clean-up both our website & our X/Twitter feed. Should be completed by 9 AM today. 2.) We're On Track to release the next update of Photosets, v10.31, by week's end. It adds unique & innovative "Automated" Capture & Video Maker support. -----