Michael Long
Nov 13, 2023

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To me that just goes to show how *unsuited* the iPhone is to the task at hand. Especially with its one single port taken up by the drive.

Yes, you can capture "professional" video... but how do you get sound into the silly thing? Great video is nothing without great sound.

How do you capture it?

Yes, you can bolt on drives and USB-C hubs and extra batteries and adaptors and dongles into a Frankensteinian nightmare... but is that a good solution? Portable?

From my perspective their professional "camera" now needs better microphones, better integration with external wireless audio sources and as far as that goes it could really, really benefit from an additional USB-C port. Or even, heaven forbid, a phone jack.

Then again, some enterprising company could make a USB-C attached battery/drive with a passthrough USB-C port and phone jack.

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Michael Long
Michael Long

Written by Michael Long

I write about Apple, Swift, and SwiftUI in particular, and technology in general. I'm also a Lead iOS Engineer at InRhythm, a modern digital consulting firm.

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