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  • Apple is readied for an entire week of M4 Mac announcements

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    Remember the year Jobs announced there would be a new product released every week (some were hardware, others software)? Glory days.
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  • Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute are Apple's answer to generative AI

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    A rather lame, half-baked, underwhelming attempt at AI. 

    A $3000B company with thousands and thousands of developers and a history of spectacular innovations can’t come up with its own AI?
    I think that is a bit unfair. Apple has gone down a different path to the other server centric AI models. And, I would point out, what Apple has been calling ML for five years is a lot of what people now call AI. This is what I assume is the plan from what I can glean for the key or at technical websites (well, Ars).

    Apple Intelligence = on device ML and local LLM (smart Siri) + private, personal encrypted LLM on Apple servers ( no one else has done that bit)

    ChatGPT integration = if Apple Intelligence can’t help, then go outside the privacy wall to ChatGPT (while still limiting private info) or any other LLM that sets up a future deal with Apple.  And you must give permission for smart Siri to do so when it has to.

    All in all a deep, integrated system where on device is first priority and privacy considered at all steps.  And that private LLM framework is pretty big.  This is a very different path to other offerings while leveraging existing LLM frameworks. Whether it works (hi Siri!) we have yet to see.
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  • Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom

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    It doesn’t matter if people hardly use the power button or not, it is a bad design choice. And that is all it is. 
    Those in the Ive cathedral that didn’t want to see the power button won over those that wanted functionality. End of story. No ifs or buts.
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  • Party's over: Apple tries to shrink costs of Apple TV+ productions

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    Agree on the expensive, imported star issue. Make new stars.
    on the series issue, it can be solved by a story from the start being built to only have one series. One. 
    And do not stretch it out. If the story can be properly told in six or eight episodes, that’s it. Think Netflix’s Queens Gambit.
    K-dramas do this successfully. Stories are mostly eight, 12 or 16 episodes. The ones that go longer can get tedious. And multi series stories are not the norm.
    A greater variety of stories, focussed on the story, rather than trying to milk existing shows to death. Apple TV+ does not have the depth of content to keep adding series to already existing shows. It needs more stories.

    Oh, and if based on a book. Respect the source.  No additional preaching inconsistent with the story.  Look a the failure of The Willow series on Disney, or prime LOTR.

    The name probably doesn’t help either. People think they need a set top box.
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  • Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute are Apple's answer to generative AI

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    MantlesD said:
    US English only. It will probably be six years until available in my native language. Still waiting for numerous other Apple features that are only available for major languages. Bummer.
    No doubt even longer for Australian.
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  • Blood oxygen sensing shows no sign of returning to Apple Watch any time soon

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    At that time, any newly purchased Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 in the United States of America would not have the feature enabled. 
    FIFY.
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  • Apple TV+'s Mythic Quest to end with revised fourth season finale

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    A feature of American sitcoms is they keep them going until they just die a sad death with increasingly lame writing and tired actors. 
    Proper, planned story arc before the cameras are first turned on to start filming. Then finish it, resist calls from fans for a new season. 

    Then do something completely different with fresh ideas.

    look a k-dramas. That’s what they do. Well, apart from the problem of endless variations of Cinderella.
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  • Apple doesn't appear to have plans to revive the iPhone mini

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    opinion said:
    Well, the iPhone 13 mini was introduced almost four years ago, maybe the user base has changed and more are hoping for a mini version now? I just don't get this big monsters of phones, ok for those who want it but not everyone does. Why not add phone support to the biggest iPad and let the big phone lovers use those!
    Yes, my 13 mini battery has just dropped below 80%. I will have to ge the battery   replaced as I have no plans for a larger phone. 

    charlesn said:
    prof said:
    hmlongco said:
    People say they want one. Apple makes one. People don't buy one. Apple stops making one.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    People did buy it, one dealer I know told me that they sold more iPhone Minis months for months than any other non-Apple or Samsung brand model. Sometimes it's not entirely clear why Apple ditches a product; all bad sales rumours are only unconfirmed speculation. 
    Please. Stop your descent into the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. It's really pretty simple: Apple is a publicly owned, for profit company that is in the business of making products that sell well enough to generate sufficient profit to justify keeping them in the product lineup. It keeps making the products that earn their keep and stops making the ones that don't. End of story, The Mini would still be in the lineup if it sold in sufficient numbers, and the story of what one dealer told you for a product that sells globally is absolutely meaningless. Do you think Apple is happy about EOL'ing a new product after just two cycles? Absolutely not. It's questionable if they even made back their costs for research and development of the Mini, costs for tooling and production, design, marketing, etc. after just two years. This isn't to say that the Mini didn't have its fans, and a lot of them, just not enough to make it worthwhile to keep around. Notice also that no major Android manufacturer, even though they seem to run with every new gimmick feature they can dream up, has stepped in to produce a truly premium mini phone--there's no high end Galaxy or Pixel Mini. That's further confirmation that a sufficiently big market for a premium mini phone is simply not there. It's also worth noting that Apple's low-priced and smaller iPhone SE was always the worst selling model in the whole iPhone lineup. 

    It isn’t really a conspiracy. The mini did sell in large enough numbers that many android manufacturers would dream of for their phones.  But for Apple it had small sales compared with their other phones. So in the scheme of things it just wasn’t worth it for Apple to have yet another product line.
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  • Apple's 'F1' ad in Wallet won't hurt you, but it might save you $10

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    Amazing that someone tries to defend the indefensible. 
    this is just obnoxious MBA weenies in marketing having too much control over a company. The tail wagging the dog.
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  • Is the Apple One subscription worth it in 2025?

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    Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

    Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with “no”.

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