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The One-in-Three Edition Sunday, December 3, 2023

LumaFusion Review, by Steve Paris, TechRadar

LumaTouch has done an impeccable job packing in professional-grade video editing tools into an app like this. And somehow, it feels like the most natural thing in the world.

I Used Apple's Best iPhone App Of 2023 To Level Up My Hiking This Year – And It’s Better Than Strava For Walks, by Matt Evans, TechRadar

One of the best fitness apps, the choice of AllTrails is a fantastic representation of how our tech can work with us to make the outside world easier to access.

Filmic's Entire Staff Laid Off By Parent Company Bending Spoons, by Jaron Schneider, PetaPixel

Considered for years as the best video capture application for mobile devices, the team behind Filmic Pro and presumably Filmic Firstlight — the company’s photo-focused app — has been let go. Rumors arose last month that Bending Spoons performed a round of layoffs that affected the operations, maintenance, and development and brought those functions in-house. The layoffs were confirmed to PetaPixel by sources close to the matter who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the brand.

Is This The End Of ‘Intel Inside’?, by Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal

The threats to Intel are so numerous that it’s worth summing them up: The Mac and Google’s Chromebooks are already eating the market share of Windows-based, Intel-powered devices. As for Windows-based devices, all signs point to their increasingly being based on non-Intel processors. Finally, Windows is likely to run on the cloud in the future, where it will also run on non-Intel chips.

Apple has moved almost entirely away from Intel’s chips, which it used for over a decade for all of its desktop and notebook computers. At the same time, its overall market share for desktops and notebooks has climbed from around 12% of devices in the U.S. in 2013 to nearly one in three today, according to Statcounter.

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Since Windows has always been the great Mac OS copying machine, my prediction is Microsoft will abandon Intel and move onto Arm chips sooner rather than later.

But, I am no expert in chip design and operating system architecting, but I think Microsoft should instead buy Intel and optimize the chips for Windows operations?

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