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  • Apple execs talk future of the iPhone in ride-along Apple Park tour

    Was it an autonomous golf cart? Perhaps the culmination of project titan?
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  • Apple's focus on local AI models and licensing LLMs could be a winning combo, says analyst...

    Apple might be in a position where they have little choice but to license an LLM. So be it. But this is far from the best position they could have been in. Senior management made a bad bet and now they are playing catch up. That happens — nobody is perfect. And Apple has made enough good bets that they have the money to recover.

    But relying on others for a core technology is not a great idea long term. That’s why Apple has its own OS, compiler, language, silicon, retail stores, etc. 

    Apple needs to get to a point where they can train their own models on their own silicon, not licensing from people who pay Nvidia 70 percent margins on GPUs. 

    Unless of course Google gives them as good a deal on LLMs as on search. 
    watto_cobra
  • iPhone 16 Pro: what to expect from Apple's fall 2024 flagship phone

    charlesn said:
    blastdoor said:
    Let’s rearrange the deck chairs.
    I actually non ironically would like a deck chair rearranged. My father has an old iPhone from the era of Thin. I happened to pick it up the other day and was struck by how nice it is to hold a thin and light phone. So maybe it’s time to create an iPhone Air whose main feature is thin and light. 
    Guess what, blastdoor? You're in luck! The "era of thin" iPhone of your dreams--you know, like the iPhone 5, so thin and light--is available for purchase today! It's called the iPhone SE. Not only is it "as thin" as the iPhone 5... it's THINNER! Just 7.3mm vs 7.5mm for the 5. Sad news, though... it IS heavier! Yes, the SE weighs a whopping 1 gram more than the 5... actually, 1.1 grams... so that might be a deal breaker for you. But did I mention that the SE, while being thinner and about the same weight as a 5 has a screen that's 18% larger and leaves the 5 in the dust in every other aspect of the phone, in both performance and capabilites? So there's your "iPhone Air" available for purchase today! How hard was that?
    I know that I can buy an old phone using even older technology. That’s not what Air has typically meant. Air means the best thin and light that can be built today. That would be a nice option. 
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  • iPhone 16 Pro: what to expect from Apple's fall 2024 flagship phone

    tmay said:
    blastdoor said:
    Let’s rearrange the deck chairs.
    I actually non ironically would like a deck chair rearranged. My father has an old iPhone from the era of Thin. I happened to pick it up the other day and was struck by how nice it is to hold a thin and light phone. So maybe it’s time to create an iPhone Air whose main feature is thin and light. 
    I don't disagree.

    I wish that I could choose which Apple device is active at any time, so that I get the benefit a single phone number, something like, "tag, you're it!" when I wake the phone.

    I'd pay a premium for that, but I wouldn't pay for multiple "virtual" lines.


    That’s a fantastic idea 
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  • iPhone 16 Pro: what to expect from Apple's fall 2024 flagship phone

    Let’s rearrange the deck chairs.
    I actually non ironically would like a deck chair rearranged. My father has an old iPhone from the era of Thin. I happened to pick it up the other day and was struck by how nice it is to hold a thin and light phone. So maybe it’s time to create an iPhone Air whose main feature is thin and light. 
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