The death of minor versions.

Oh no it's Firefox 242 coming out , but is it compatible with [whatever tool] version 452 ! will it run on my windose 666 and Office 500.

more and more products, I am following are abandoning minor releases.
what is it with the world?
we used to have major releases that really anounced great new features and great advancements in functionalities. Not anymore , revenue streams require everyone to release a major release every 6 months  so that you have to upgrade every 6 months. Just above the free upgrade period and just below a year.

Before that you needed to buy your new software every 3-4 years and do minor updates in the meanwhile, but as the speed of the upgrades and the incompatibilities creep in , we are forced to upgrade.

Yes, absolutely mister customer.
As vendors are more or less getting the upgrade often option in, they say don't buy a product but a solution.
The vendor solution is in fact to transmogrify the product into a solution. Change the hamer in a nail thrusting tool service, which adapts to the newer nails technology. Currently we are in the middle of that process where most vendors are giving year subscriptions with an entrance fee.
We are not yet at the level SAS software has attained with it's business model where the tool is rented, but I think the industry will get there soon. The advantage of the renting is that the vendor always needs to be on his toes to keep up with the world around it. It will be a necessity and not a luxury. the platforms continue to accelerate and if you can't keep up ,your tools will just fail on you.

my 10 Yo tells me programming is from the middle ages.

This morning at the breakfast table we are discussing computer camps. My son tells me that it would be great , you find a game you like and you play all day!
Shocked and in awe , I tell him about how I did a computer camp when I was young where they thaught programming. And I really loved it!
More shock and awe was coming in my direction.

"Yes Daddy , but everything has already been programmed . You use stuff nowadays. Programming was a thing of the middle ages!"

What to do with such statements.

Umbrella apocalypse

umbrella apocalypse is the result of huge rainfall and great winds.
Umbrellas broken thrown away , useless to the modern society.
The more I took pictures of those umbrella's , the more I was imagining that they were not umbrellas but an erzatz for regular people.

People also get through hardship, those who make it through are all around us . Those who don't get thown away on the street . For each umbrella I imagined someone lying there broken and lost.

Maybe it is the cowardice of not wanting to take pictures of people in misery , or maybe the umbrellas make the reality more bearable. which one it is I don't know.

I have edited those pictures from my Ipad and uploaded them using a local wifi, I described in a previous post how I executed my mobile workflow.

Photo workflow on the road

Shooting my umbrella apocalypse pictures in amsterdam , made me wonder if I could publish while on vacation with less computing power than what I have at home.

My hardware for the trip :
- my camera with SD cards
- my ipad
- ipad camera connection kit

And of course wifi at our local appartment.

Step 1 importing the pictures on the ipad with the connection kit.

The foto app starts up and imports all pictures flawelessly.
I could complain about the lack of management of pictures like grouping and no multiple delete, but thar would be being picky.

Step 2 editing in photogene.

Excellent color workflow, great intuitive interface. The export to flickr was not. So save the edits and on we go.

Step 3 using the iphone flickr app on the ipad , imo still the best interface.

Upload , add comments and tags.

Voila its even better than the real thing , when you can do that when enjoying the setting sun.

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