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Phil Rhodes said:
It's worth bearing in mind that the situation where all computers are Apple Macs and all cellphones are iPhones is really a rather USA-specific thing. Outside the USA, ownership of Apple gear is much, much rarer. I live in the UK and I know exactly one person who owns a MacBook and an iPhone. Otherwise it's all Windows and Android. International productions take note.

My impression is that phones are generally better than laptops.
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As far as phones, totally (Xiaomi/Samsung), but Apple computers are just as common everywhere besides corporate which Microsoft still dominates.
 
Phil Rhodes said:
It's worth bearing in mind that the situation where all computers are Apple Macs and all cellphones are iPhones is really a rather USA-specific thing. Outside the USA, ownership of Apple gear is much, much rarer. I live in the UK and I know exactly one person who owns a MacBook and an iPhone. Otherwise it's all Windows and Android. International productions take note.

My impression is that phones are generally better than laptops.
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I've lived abroad for 13 years, five years in South Korea and eight years in Vietnam and Apple products are insanely popular in these parts. In fact, Apple is the most popular smartphone brand in Vietnam.
 
As a side note, I was watching a Gerald Undone video last night and has was comparing the Sony A1 to the A7sIII. He stated the A7sIII had a green issue in LOG and showed an example between the two. I know you did not shoot your footage in LOG but the A7sIII example looked exactly like your sample compared to the spot on A1. So maybe the A7sIII suffers in artificial lighting situations? His example was in studio.

Either Sony is working on it or the Cripple Hammer rears its ugly head once again! :)
 
jonpais said:
I've lived abroad for 13 years, five years in South Korea and eight years in Vietnam and Apple products are insanely popular in these parts. In fact, Apple is the most popular smartphone brand in Vietnam.
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It's not particularly difficult to be the most popular single smartphone brand given there are a lot of smartphone brands out there. I have absolutely no iron in this fire, but just from the perspective of knowing your audience, the overwhelming majority of the cellphones that exist on planet Earth are non-Apple, and by a very large margin. In the following image, rather cruelly scaled, the bottommost blue area is Android and the darker blue area is iPhones (and by extension the associated tablets).

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As to desktop and laptop operating systems, it's difficult to tell what people are using them for, but depending on the source between 75 and 80 per cent of all computers on the planet still run Windows, and that includes the enormous distorting factor of vast server farms supporting what people call "the cloud" which invariably run Linux.

Also bear in mind, as I say, this is very, very regional. Outside very specific markets, Apple is easy to miss. In some markets, Apple is a rounding error. That still makes it a big, important company, since we're comparing Apple to every other company combined, but to tell people to watch their material on an Apple device on the basis it's some sort of benchmark is questionable advice. It's not even as if Apple displays are particularly special compared to other things of similar pricepoint.
 
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Not sure what that obscure graphic is, but anyone can Google the information and see that the iPhone 11 was the highest selling phone last year on planet Earth with 64.8 million units sold.

Older folk and gamers make up the numbers for Windows computers, including every mom and pop business who still uses their Windows 95 computer near where the cat sleeps.

But Apple is the new world. Apple products have become a gold standard for human interaction and human education.

The advice I provided was very fair; you just appear to be a bit out of touch, I'm sorry to say.

We are talking about watching and sharing art on a screen; not information technology tasks, or accounting.

Checking on an Apple computer or phone is one of the best ways in the universe to see what your product may look like for others versus checking on other products which may be uncalibrated or have weird auto settings that haven't been altered.
 
NorBro said:
Not sure what that obscure graphic is
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Well, I did explain, maybe go back and have a look.

64.8 million units is not very many in a world 1.38 billion were sold in total. You don't seem to be understanding the distinction here: Apple may be a large individual manufacturer, but we're comparing against all the other manufacturers put together. It'd be crazy to expect iPhone to beat all Android phones put together on sheer numbers and it doesn't, not by a very, very long way.

Most Apple displays are uncalibrated too, for any meaningful definition of "calibrated."

The point remains. Something like 80 per cent of the global audience is not an Apple user, much more than that in many places, and there's nothing that special about Apple gear if they are. It is not a benchmark and we should not promote the idea that it is.
 
Need a link/source to the information. As far as I know, you could have created the graphic yourself. I assume you didn't, but just saying.

But for real...what's the point of comparing multiple companies against one when many of the units in the total calculation are practically useless, rudimentary hardware for casual users or existing technology that was created before Apple entered the mobile market?

Yes, there are more non-Apple phones in the world but that's because Apple didn't make their first one until 2007.

What do you think those numbers would look like if Apple made their first one in the 80s, 90s and had the same success?

And if 80% of the global is non-Apple (doubt it), is that figure measured passively or actively? Does the validity remain relevant in this conversation if maybe only 5% out of that 80% are individuals who consume content? What portion of that 80% will watch the video we are sharing?

Apple displays may be truly uncalibrated (they are good enough, IMO), but let's think about this philosophically; if more than 50% of your audience (not the world) is viewing the video you are sharing on "uncalibrated" Apple products, don't they then become calibrated in the sense of everyone is seeing the same thing?
 
Get a grey card.

Shoot it

Put a colour picker over the shot in your post software

See if it is

70-70-70 in which case the light/camera are good
90-70-70 in which case light/cam is red
70-70-90 blue

70 is 'any number' .. could be
125-125-125

with a grey card. or a cereal box or a fancy gretag card (and an RGB colour picker software) it is easy to get to know your camera. even if you have no fancy screen or expensive colour meter.

If you want to know where you stand 'globally' make some reference images by shooting your grey card in the shade on a sunny day. Dont pick the shade of a green plam tree but the shade of a grey/white building.

You can then compare your lamp to shade. Shade is exactly the colour of shade. Its perfect!
 
NorBro said:
Need a link/source to the information. As far as I know, you could have created the graphic yourself. I assume you didn't, but just saying.

But for real...what's the point of comparing multiple companies against one when many of the units in the total calculation are practically useless, rudimentary hardware for casual users or existing technology that was created before Apple entered the mobile market?

Yes, there are more non-Apple phones in the world but that's because Apple didn't make their first one until 2007.

What do you think those numbers would look like if Apple made their first one in the 80s, 90s and had the same success?

And if 80% of the global is non-Apple (doubt it), is that figure measured passively or actively? Does the validity remain relevant in this conversation if maybe only 5% out of that 80% are individuals who consume content? What portion of that 80% will watch the video we are sharing?

Apple displays may be truly uncalibrated (they are good enough, IMO), but let's think about this philosophically; if more than 50% of your audience (not the world) is viewing the video you are sharing on "uncalibrated" Apple products, don't they then become calibrated in the sense of everyone is seeing the same thing?
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Uh... no, that's not how calibration works.

This is becoming a religious debate in which I'm not particularly interested; why on earth would I fake statistics?
 
Still waiting for the link...

Bottom line is my recommendation for checking on Apple products is completely valid, and I never said one shouldn't check on anything else.

If you cannot understand why using an Apple phone or computer would be a good idea to do that then I can't help you.
 
OH, WoW - I neVeR tHOugHT of gOOgle. ThanK yoU.

I do not care about other links; I am asking for that specific link. If someone takes the time out of their day to disagree with advice I have provided - which he actually called 'very bad advice' before editing it - then I'd like to discuss their specific sources. Do you understand?

I know what the numbers are - I agreed multiple times for various reasons - but everything has to be measured in context.
 
haha...I'll make sure to note that and say the same thing to you the next time you're getting into it with someone and ranting with your hieroglyphics.

I didn't need to get quoted in the first place; my response was a completely one-way interaction with the OP because he was already using a Mac computer.

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Or at least if the reply to me was better worded and that he simply disagrees and thinks other products are just as good, I wouldn't have even responded.
 
lol.

I know, man.

All you have to do is type in the title of the picture's headline (or just a few words from it) and it's the second result.

I was being facetious and I wanted HIM to send it because I was annoyed by the way my advice was called out like if it was ludicrous to recommend Apple.

I have nothing against non-Apple products. They are necessary in our lives.
 
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