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  • Chase could be a potential partner for Apple Card

    davendaven
    Hopefully Apple can find a better option than Chase.
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  • What's really going on with Apple's modem chip efforts?

    davendaven
    ecarlseen said:
    I lived in San Diego for years and have had quite a few friends on Qualcomm's engineering teams, and this is what I've heard:

    Many of the nuts-and-bolts details of making cellular modems (especially everything from CDMA / 3G onward) are kept as trade secrets - they aren't in the patents or official specifications. The specifications cover the results you're supposed to achieve for successful compatibility, but how to actually meet those specs in the very messy real world of hideously-congested spectrum, signal blockage and reflections, MIMO, etc., has a difficulty level of "completely insane." Remember that Intel, one of the world's largest and most successful silicon engineering companies backed by a huge pile of operating cash and purchase agreements, fell flat on its face trying to do this. Their 4G modems were garbage and they could never get 5G to work at all. Apple also has loads of top-tier engineering talent and a mountain of cash, but they are going to have to hack through a lot of difficult problems along this journey and it's not surprising that they're behind schedule.

    This sounds like an ideal problem for AI to work on. Feed the AI system the specifications and data and see what it comes up with for solutions. Hmmmm…
    watto_cobra

  • Internal fighting and privacy concerns hinder Apple's ability to modernize Siri

    davendaven
    So scared of making a mistake that management let the lead Apple had wither. Embarrassing.
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  • Apple issues tvOS 15.6 to the public with under-the-hood improvements

    davendaven
    When I read the part about supporting Mandarin, I thought it would be cool if you could use Siri to learn a new language by translating phrases. So I asked Siri to translate a phrase into Mandarin and it does it. I’m sure that functionality has been there a long time but it was fun to learn about it. 
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  • Apple sued for not paying New York Apple Store staff weekly

    davendaven
    crowley said:
    Seems frivolous. 
    Seems like an open and shut case.  Apple didn't have permission, therefore Apple broke the law.
    Not so open and shut. From the article:  “The lawsuit reckons that approximately 25% of the job responsibilities Ramos had would be classifiable as manual labor.“. Later in the article it says the laws requires that more than 25% of the work must be manual so the plaintiff has a couple of hurdles. They need to prove that more than 25% of the work was manual not that “approximately 25%” and that the work claimed was manual. It is debatable that chatting with customers is considered manual labor. 
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