On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Majek Pictures have produced a small movie called the "Apple of my eye". This movie has been short entirely on the Apple iPhone 4. When Steve Jobs said that the iPhone 4 comes with HD quality video. There is also the iMovie App that has been used for editing. The short film took only 14 hours to film and if you check out the behind the scenes footage you get to see how the folks at Majek Pictures got the whole thing done. Apparatus used to hold the iPhone steady is really cool and this is a fantastic production. watch it now to believe it. This is truly an iStory. An original post by Sociolatte