something I've seen countless times over the years: someone offers to take a photo for me with my iPhone and "does me the favor" of disabling Live Photos in the process
then I go a month or more without noticing all my memories have been cheapened due to the lack of Live Photos and I want to throttle the dude at the grand canyon who insisted on taking a picture of me in my awesome "this place is the pits" shirt what the hell
Yesterday I heard from a lot of people who hate Live Photos and think they're worthless.
Let me just say that as someone who's had a few friends and family members pass away since Live Photos launched that being able to go back to photos and get a few seconds of video and movement on either side of a special moment is transformative in bringing me back to that memory. They've become really precious to me in a way still photos can't.
I'm excited for Apple's 3D Spatial Photos/Videos as a result.
@searls Oh absolutely the sheer delight of being able to have a snapshot come to life with sound is transformational to say the least.
It's frankly a bummer third-parties like Adobe haven't adapted to this mixed media to provide a better experience when you just want to interact with the still itself however.
Justin Searls
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