Sun and Ice I
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TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business
https://www.mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting-legacy-dvr-business/
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Chinese Embassy slams New Zealand security and intelligence agencies, warns travellers to ‘remain vigilant’
“Previously, there have been several reported case…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/127775/
Auckland bus stop attack: Hayden Williams jailed after ramming car into crowd
Williams, 24, appeared in Manukau District Court for sentenci…
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Five of us quit this 📆 year. My only regret is I couldn't take some 👶 kids home with me. As I 🚶♀️ walked out for the last time, I worried about the children I had to leave behind.
#resigned #resignation #twoweeknotice #exiting #leaving #worry #worried #nochildleftbehind #depression #depressing #walkingaway
Ok, so I'm going to try a launch at #producthunt 🤓
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Twitter is being rebranded as X. So, if one “tweets” on Twitter, will one then be “eX-iting” posts on X?
I think it’s a perfect time to eXit the entire platform. #IndieWeb #eXiting
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/23/23804629/twitters-rebrand-to-x-may-actually-be-happening-soon (https://boffosocko.com/?p=55817535)
Twitter is being rebranded as X. So, if one “tweets” on Twitter, will one then be “eX-iting” posts on X?
I think it’s a perfect time to eXit the entire platform. #IndieWeb #eXiting
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/23/23804629/twitters-rebrand-to-x-may-actually-be-happening-soon
Twitter is being rebranded as X. So, if one "tweets" on Twitter, will one then be "eX-iting" posts on X?
I think it's a perfect time to eXit the entire platform. #IndieWeb #eXiting
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/23/23804629/twitters-rebrand-to-x-may-actually-be-happening-soon
I feel many twitteranians feel quite left alone when first joining, since Mastodon requires you to actively engage, boost toots, use hashtags extensively and built a large group of followed accounts to get content.
At least that's the learning curve, I had to get through.
Once your getting content to you, I feel it is quite exiting to be part of boosting this decentralised approach to social media.
I've been off #Twitter for about two weeks now. My twitter account was more than ten years active.
Here are a few things I've learned:
• I feel less #worried about, but more engaged with, the world.
• I go outside more.
• No one noticed I'd gone: I gauge this by the fact that no one has emailed, called or texted me.
• I feel less not more alienated (this is a complex one that I'm parsing at the moment).
#Exiting
I love this episode!
#Comics #ComicsStudies #MediaSelfReferences #SelfObservation #Panels #PanelFrames
LG Leaves a Trail of Photo Innovations Behind As It Exits Mobile
It may not have come as a surprise for those with ears to the ground in the mobile phone industry, but LG is officially walking away. Despite that, it does leave something of an imaging legacy behind.
As of July 31, 2021, it will be the end of an era for the company, as the drawdown will be completed by that date. It will continue to sell the remaining inventory — even after that date — but nothing new will come from here on out.
LG’s struggle to carve out a steady piece of the market and grow it proved daunting. With Chinese brands emerging as serious contenders to all established players, the market squeeze forced a rethink of what to do to stand out. That’s where phones like the Dual Screen G8X and V60 ThinQ, and -- especially -- the Wing, came out looking totally unique.
The LG GX8
To my mind, one of the reasons LG lost its way is because it stumbled on the photography side. There were certainly other, sometimes related, reasons, but the imaging part of the equation was a major factor.
Charting a Path
It’s worth noting that it was LG — not Apple — that brought the first smartphone with a capacitive touchscreen to market. The LG KE850 Prada was announced in December 2006, a month before Steve Jobs famously unveiled the iPhone. It’s obvious which device had the bigger long-term impact, but it’s just one example of how LG was once ahead of the curve.
It was LG’s G Series phones that finally formed a cohesive structure and smartphone strategy for the company. Those devices were getting slicker, and eventually, some wacky ideas came out of them.
The LG G4
The G4 was among the first phones to offer a wider aperture at f/1.8, and LG started marketing the concept of low-light photography at the time in 2015. It was too early for a dedicated night mode that would use machine learning and emulate long exposure shots, but the die had been cast. This phone was also the first to offer a manual camera mode with controls over shutter speed, ISO, white balance, exposure, and focus.
A year later, the G5 was another phone of firsts. It made an attempt at being modular, with a removable battery and compartment that could work with compatible attachments. It never went anywhere as the device was mired in uninspiring design and software issues. But it did kick things off in other ways that lasted: It was the first to offer an ultra-wide camera (12mm equivalent) with an 8MP sensor and 135-degree field of view. While not officially the first "true" dual-camera phone, I would argue it was the first that was actually usable and impactful.
While Samsung jumped aboard that train with the Galaxy S8 in 2017, LG opted to take its manual photo features and apply them to video at the same time. It prioritized audio recording, using excellent mics to capture better audio than other contemporary phones at the time. Manual video also allowed you to record footage in 24fps with full control over composition. It marked the first time such a measure of control applied to shooting video on a phone without resorting to a third-party app. Plus, you could shoot in 4K at various resolutions, pioneering another staple feature.
You could even capture photos in RAW — something the iPhone wouldn’t allow natively until 2020. And even better, you could use both lenses in Manual mode, a feature Samsung took years to finally implement in its devices.
LG would double down on these features in the V30, adding LUTs to video footage to give it a different feel through a feature called Cine Video. This completed a steady run of pushing the needle forward to change how, when, and where users could capture images.
Declining Fortunes
Even at its peak, LG was fighting an uphill battle. And it wasn’t solely camera performance that necessarily painted it into a corner, but it did play a part.
One of LG’s long-standing issues was its seeming inability to improve the software on its phones. LG UX wasn’t the best of Android overlays, and while boot loop issues that plagued it in the past may have been largely gone in subsequent years, the devices weren’t offering anything dramatically different.
The LG G7 One was an exception as an Android One device that looked and felt like stock Android. And as LG initially nudged the industry forward with onscreen navigation buttons, it wasn’t able to parlay that into a lasting impression. Samsung did it soon after, and that’s what finally stuck.
The V40 pioneered the triple-camera array, albeit too late to stand out among the pack. The problem was that the software wasn’t good enough to help produce better photos. Google had software computation, Samsung had decent output, Huawei had outstanding performance, and OnePlus had improving quality. Tighter competition and less of a differentiating hook continued to push LG to the side.
LG V40
In an era where camera performance and image quality figured so prominently as a selling point for high-end and mid-range handsets, LG struggled to make its own case. It stopped being the first to do things and followed trends instead. Its attempt at artificial intelligence input for its camera array never amounted to much in the way of innovative prowess.
That failure is particularly unfortunate because it’s the kind of thing that forces the industry to keep doing things better, especially in ways that make people better mobile shooters.
Standing Out in the Long Run
In the future, dual-screen, wing-style phones, and even rollable concepts will all have LG’s aura on them -- the company looked to unveil a rollable concept after mentioning it at CES this year. There may, or may have not, been some sort of wacky idea around phone cameras in the engineering pipeline at the company’s facilities in South Korea. We’ll never know.
The LG Wing
What we do know is that LG’s absence is a loss for the industry, particularly in markets where alternatives to Samsung and the iPhone are always good to have. It is even more so for mobile photography in North America, where the two biggest brands aren’t necessarily the ones showing the way on what’s possible with a smartphone camera.
#editorial #industry #mobile #camerainnovation #exiting #innovation #legacy #lg #lgmobile #lgsmartphones #oped #opinion #photography #shutdown #smartphonephotography #smartphones
It’s Official: LG Is Getting Out of the Smartphone Business
Following rumors, the LG today confirmed that it is shutting its mobile division down amid mounting losses. The company had been known for its "quirky" and unusual designs that were produced as the company tried to differentiate its devices.
As noted by Engadget, LG announced that it is closing its mobile business unit officially on its website and that the decision had been approved by the board of directors on April 5.
The company stated that its decision to exit is based on the competitive smartphone market where LG was simply unable to care out a successful niche. Engadget reports that LG's mobile division has not made a profit for six consecutive years.
"LG’s strategic decision to exit the incredibly competitive mobile phone sector will enable the company to focus resources in growth areas such as electric vehicle components, connected devices, smart homes, robotics, artificial intelligence and business-to-business solutions, as well as platforms and services," the company writes.
For those who currently own an LG smartphone, the company promises that it will continue to provide service and support for them, but for how long was not specified and will vary by region.
"LG will provide service support and software updates for customers of existing mobile products for a period of time which will vary by region," LG writes. "LG will work collaboratively with suppliers and business partners throughout the closure of the mobile phone business. Details related to employment will be determined at the local level."
LG's latest smartphones have failed to grab the attention of average consumers who instead have been flocking to market leaders like Apple and Samsung, and Chinese brands such as Oppo, OnePlus, Vivo, and Xiaomi.
The most recent attempt to grab the attention of buyers was the LG Wing, a highly unusual smartphone design that mixed the concepts of a flip phone and a folding phone. Sporting two screens, the LG Wing would "flip" out and form a T-shape where content could be viewed in widescreen above a normal portrait-oriented lower half screen. The design had its merits but clearly was not enough for the company to rationalize spending any further money and time on mobile.
LG says that the wind-down of its mobile phone business is expected to happen very quickly: by July 31 of 2021. The company does stipulate that while it will close its operations in that division by then, inventory of existing models may still be available after that.
#mobile #news #exiting #lg #lgmobile #lgsmartphones #shutdown #smartphones
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