Apple's latest iPhone photo & video tutorials cover Rule of Thirds, timelapses

as declared in Apple on Friday published four short video tutorials to YouTube, offering basic tips for the iOS Camera app and shooting photos and videos with an iPhone. "How to shoot with light and shadow," for example, explains focus lock and how to change exposure, while "How to shoot using the Rule of Thirds" strips down composition rules and shows how to enable a grid overlay. "How to shoot a Time-Lapse video" is perhaps the most simplistic, only pointing out where the option is. Such photo and video tutorials have been emerging for over a year at this point, and may be necessary since many iOS features are unexplained to newcomers without searching for information online. The company has also been producing tutorials for other products such as the Apple Watch Series 4

Apple's iPhone U.S. Installed Base Estimated at 189 Million -- The Motley Fool

The Mac maker points to that large and growing installed base as the underlying driver of its services business. The U.S. could represent approximately one-fifth of that worldwide installed base. Apple is still growing U.S. iPhone usersConsumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) has released estimates today regarding the U.S. iPhone installed base, pegging domestic users at 189 million. CIRP's installed base estimate would account for 21% of Apple's official 900 million figure. US sales remain relatively stable, which shows up in slight growth in the US installed base."

Qualcomm says Apple's software workarounds undermine case against US iPhone ban [u]

as mentioned in Apple's software update to get around an alleged Qualcomm patent violation undermines its case against a ban on U.S. iPhone imports, the chipmaker said in a filing last week. Qualcomm is seeking to win a ban from the U.S. International Trade Commission after an ITC judge in September made an initial ruling against such action, saying it would be against the public interest. That view is now in question as Apple last week revealed it discovered a software workaround to Qualcomm's design, something it deemed impossible in previous arguments. Qualcomm believes the revelation undermines Pender's decision, which was based on Apple's proclamation that there exists no fix for Qualcomm's patent. "Apple's public interest arguments throughout the course of this Investigation have all rested on one fundamental idea: that enforcement of the '490 Patent would cause unavoidable harm to the public interest.

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