No software? DaVinci Resolve? Affinity Designer? Final Cut, Procreate, AUM, Logic Pro etc etc etc. As the processors get more powerful more demanding software can be made for it. Running multiple physical modeling AUVs along with FX loops eat up clock cycles. Final Cut Camera on iPhones along with Final Cut on an iPad allow for full multi camera controls and recording from 4 different iPhones with ProRes and log shooting at the same time.
If Apple hadn't continually upgraded the processing power then none of those programs would work. It's up to Apple to make compelling hardware. Better hardware allows more advanced programs. iPads are amazing.
The Procreate UI literally tells us otherwise. When you create a new image, it tells you exactly how many layers it will allow you to have based on the dimensions you set. This number is smaller for older iPads.
Thats the one I would buy if I were thinking of upgrading right now. We expect new models every year at this point, thats been the strategy of Apple for many years at this point
If this came across as doing so, I apologize. It was intended more as “there’s a much simpler way.”
Here’s an analogy: I have a kitchen drawer that has had its face torn off, because the threads for the screws were destroyed. I tried fixing it twice by drilling them out, gluing a hardwood dowel in, and then redrilling for screw threads.
After the second failure, I asked my FIL - who is a woodworker - if I should bore them out to a larger size, so I could use a larger dowel with more surface area for glue, etc. He said, “you could, but the failure point is the threads, because you’re driving parallel into end grain. A hardwood plug inserted such that you’re driving into edge grain would hold. Or, you could just move the screws, and optionally plug the old holes for aesthetics.”
I was vastly over-complicating something that had an extremely easy solution. This problem exists everywhere in tech; people will recreate existing technology (usually in a worse fashion), or create Byzantine pipelines for a problem trivially solved by a bash script, etc.
If you consider the available options for something, and then decide, that’s one thing. If you make what is objectively the wrong choice, that still might be understandable - maybe you want to learn something new, maybe it doesn’t matter at your scale (which tbf is true here, though Vercel’s pricing might cause pain if the site exploded in popularity), etc. But the point is, you should understand trade-offs, and what already exists.
This is only the first year of this fascist government, and I believe the first powerful company that is taking a stance? Meta, Apple, etc. have all bent the knee right?
Another way to see this is that most obsessed artists live within constraints they created years ago, and their art stands out as it is something never seen before: the best someone has ever done within the constraints they took decades to explore and master.
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