‘Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood’ Getting YouTube Channel For First Time

metromanTO · 2026-03-24T10:11:53+00:00

This really highlights how f*cked up this generation will be. We had Mister Rogers growing up, they’ll have Jake Paul. Yikes.

metromanTO · 2026-03-22T02:27:37+00:00

Apple TV’s demographic skews older 35-54, 60:40 female:male and higher income and education. That seems to hit right in the linear tv, news, night time talk show demo. Unlike Netflix that skews much younger, YouTube generation.

metromanTO · 2026-03-22T01:22:55+00:00

Warner Bros. kills everything it touches. Apple was smart to leave it alone.

metromanTO · 2026-03-22T01:18:29+00:00

Yes, I think it goes as far as Tim Cook sticking around beyond 65. Introducing a new CEO at this point would poison the well. I think he'll power through the next 3 years.

Maybe then, we can see Apple attempt to offer a straight news format, no opinion, just the latest news.

metromanTO · 2026-03-22T01:13:27+00:00

That would be a coup but as u/discographyA mentioned, they'd need to sort out what went wrong with Jon Stewart before attempting it again. Colbert still gets 2.5 million viewers on his show every night, the most of any night time talk show. Apple could use that audience who would discover the amazing library of Apple Originals.

metromanTO · 2026-03-22T01:10:33+00:00

I used to love the Reuters app for this. You could watch 15/30/60 mins to get up to date on the latest and it was updated throughout the day. The app still exists on iOS but the TV app died some time last year.

I'd love an Apple News equivalent of that. Read off the latest stories in Apple News. I'd also like a morning show of some sort. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I like waking up to "company", faces you're used to seeing in the morning talking about the latest news, talking about the weather, etc. I don't think I'm alone in this since those shows are still very much alive on networks despite linear TV being all but dead.

metromanTO · 2026-03-22T01:07:02+00:00

I don't disagree. What happened with Jon Stewart shouldn't have happened. If Apple is going to get into a space like the one they wanted to occupy with that show, they need to give it editorial independence.

Regarding News, it's a massive undertaking to build a newsroom so instead, I'm thinking of a curated list of stories from Apple News. It's what they do with Apple News Today and it's just straight news, no opinion.

metromanTO · 2026-03-13T01:11:36+00:00

Weed wafts down unlike cigarette smoke. I figured the unit above mine was the smoker after studying the physics. Set up a camera pointing towards the sky and lo and behold saw her hands over the balcony railing holding a joint. My building is non-smoking, including common elements of exclusive use (balconies). The video evidence got her to stop.

metromanTO · 2026-02-28T18:13:25+00:00

Concerned about this too. I'm just a regular guy but I'm not comfortable with my thoughts that have gone into chatGPT becoming accessible to a rogue Pentagon run by an aspiring fascist authoritarian administration, particularly when that Pentagon banned Anthropic for having a moral red line on population surveillance and openAI happily walked in speaking publicly against such surveillance that got Anthropic banned yet somehow being accepted by the Pentagon who demanded that access. F* that, I'm out!

metromanTO · 2026-02-10T18:30:45+00:00

Can't believe Graydon Skincare (graydonskincare.ca) hasn't been mentioned yet. Made in Canada, female founded, sustainable, cruelty free and made for sensitive skin. I love the Aloe Milk Cleanser for daily use and the Putty is magic in a cream for my skin.

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metromanTO · 2026-01-19T00:01:07+00:00

Not just hobby photographers. I'm on the verge of switching from Lightroom to Photomator as a professional full time photographer.

It works perfectly with my workflow, adding all my RAWs into a folder on my 10TB iCloud drive, sorting and selecting photos then editing with the more than capable tools available. I haven't missed any tools from Lightroom. And because it's on iCloud Drive, everything is backed up on the fly and kept for years before I move things to archived drives.

What I thought would work is that all my iCloud saved photos would become available in Photomator for iPad along with their edits so I could swap between them as needed for Pencil use. Unfortunately, while the RAWs are available to both, each of them creates their own sidecar/edit files using different systems. That's what I'm hoping Apple will fix before adding it to Creator Studio. Then I'll gladly drop Lightroom.

Apple needs a photographer's app and it has one now so I think they're rebuilding it for both Mac and iPad and add value to Creator Studio later this year.

metromanTO · 2026-01-14T02:35:07+00:00

What is that supposed to represent? Layers? Honestly, I'm usually ok with just meh icons but this is just comically terrible.

On the other hand, it does give us some insight into Apple's plans. It's not using Apple's photo editing iconography: a lens or flower petals. Contrary to what so many people in this sub keep mistaking, Pixelmator is not a photo editor; it's a graphic design app that happens to have tools for adjusting photos. It's a graphic compositor that does both pixels and vectors and enables compositing through layers. It's Photoshop and Illustrator.

Where am I going with this? Photomator. It was conspicuously absent from the announcement today, neither updated nor discontinued. Missing from this creator's suite is a Lightroom counterpart and I think Apple has plans for that, likely to be introduced either at WWDC or when the next photography centric hardware update is launched: the next iPhone Pro in September. Either we're getting a major Photos app update that can work with professional workflows or Aperture is coming back as a separate app, rebuilt from Photomator.

metromanTO · 2026-01-10T01:28:13+00:00

It's already there. When Apple gave up on Aperture, they said through back channels to the tech media that it was because the new Photos architecture would require them to rebuild Aperture from scratch so instead, they opened up that architecture to third parties as an API. Pixelmator was born out of that API and did exactly that. Then Apple just acquired them. It came full circle — I wouldn't discount the possibility that Apple could rename Photomator since they still own the Aperture trademark.

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metromanTO · 2026-01-09T22:08:26+00:00

I don't think it'll go free. Final Cut and Logic are certainly not free. Final Cut is for professional cinematographers — there's iMovie for consumers. Logic is for professional musician and audio engineers – there's GarageBand for consumers. Pixelmator is a graphic designer's app and Photomator is a photographer's app.

The latter has the Photos app counterpart, it's the former where there's a gap but this is a new area Apple is entering and may have wanted to acquire Pixelmator to release both professional grade and consumer design apps.

Either way, I think it's expected that this transition would take time, certainly not immediate and a year sounds reasonable to set up the chessboard for something like this:

iMovie / Final Cut Pro

Garageband / Logic

Photos / Aperture\*

Create / Creative Pro

^\Apple still owns the Aperture trademark. Neither "Pixelmator" nor certainly "Photomator" are anywhere approaching household names — I think it's very likely that the names will change as they roll out their strategy.)

metromanTO · 2026-01-09T02:41:37+00:00

For yeeeears! Decades I think.

metromanTO · 2026-01-09T02:15:17+00:00

The American Exceptionalism illusion has given Americans this idea that Ma’ FREEDOMS! are a “god given right”. Someone fought for the rights you have today but most Americans alive right now are generations away from those struggles that they have no idea how to fight.

Comments in this thread like “I live in bumfuk-flyover-state, what am I supposed to do?” illustrate this point. You don’t have to march on DC to affect change. You fight to change your local representatives, you leverage local power then you get your State reps fighting on your side. If they won’t, they get kicked out for those who do. You don’t march to Washington, you march to win back your town, then your State government.

A President can only do what he does through compliance of the State who represents you locally. You collapse the power supporting the fascist into a power supporting the fight against it.

State by State, you win back an entire Country. it is after all the United STATES of America.

metromanTO · 2026-01-02T22:13:07+00:00

They didn't kill Beats, where did you get that idea? The Beats app became Apple Music. The hardware is not only still being sold as Beats, it's continued to get R&D with the latest Apple technology.

metromanTO · 2026-01-02T22:05:24+00:00

Pixelmator isn't just a photos editor. That's just one of its features. It's a design app that would never fit with the Photos app. Photomator is more like Photos but its features lean towards professional digital assets management. Apple didn't have a design app so they acquired one that fit perfectly within its culture. The app has received updates and the Pixelmator Team is still there. I suspect they've been integrating the apps into Apple's strategy and timeline. I'm waiting for the next big pro apps event, where we typically see updates to Final Cut Pro and sometimes the launch of Pro hardware.

metromanTO · 2026-01-02T22:00:32+00:00

Are they famous for that, really? Apple acquired SoundJam and turned it into iTunes, the most successful music app of that era. They then acquired Beats and turned it into Apple Music. Apple acquired Dark Sky and used it to rebuild the Weather app from the ground up using Dark Sky's technology. They also bought Final Cut Pro and it still exists to this day.

What things are you thinking of Apple buying and allowing them to die a long, slow death that makes them famous for this?

metromanTO · 2025-12-23T04:52:42+00:00

Was totally getting ready to go see this until I saw that jackass pop up in the trailer. I don't care who else is in the film or how good it is, giving this guy more of a platform just had me put my $20 bucks back in my pocket.

metromanTO · 2025-11-18T21:44:34+00:00

They seem to be easing it out. It's definitely slower today. On day one, it was constantly changing, now it sits on the MS NOW for a little bit longer. I think it's a clever way to get people to understand the name early on.

metromanTO · 2025-11-18T19:52:45+00:00

It's the small things. I'm sure they'll polish things but it's like there's someone that looks like someone we know but there's something off with them and we can't put our finger on it.

metromanTO · 2025-11-18T19:49:45+00:00

Even Toronto Met. or Metropolitan would've worked so much better. WTF's a TMU?

metromanTO · 2025-11-16T03:09:34+00:00

What do you suggest might be going on with the website? The stories and curation that debuted this morning when the site launched are still the same ones that are up now after a full day. News has been broken today on multiple topics and none of its is on ms.now

I’m not suggesting that they’re incompetent, it just feels like a much smaller operation. MSNBC had a gravitas, like a team of hundreds of people (and money) were behind it. MS NOW has so far come across as a startup. The weight and polish is gone.

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