canukstorm said:

vonbrick said:

entropys said:

vonbrick said:

chasm said:

gatorguy said:

As far as I know Siri voice requests are still processed "in the cloud" rather than on-device. What Google is planning is something improved from that aren't they? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=FDdorhY7fb8

My understanding is that that's partially incorrect. Where it is possible, Siri processes requests or questions on-device, but also does do some (most? No idea) queries via internet relay to Apple servers, albeit encrypted and anonymized. I believe there's a white paper about this, but I'm not able to grab a link just at the moment.

As for Google, they're just trying to speed things up a bit -- no change in their privacy invasion.  
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As a user of Google search (and Bing, too, actually)...I'm always interested to hear of how Google "invaded my privacy" today...?  What exactly did Google do to me after several web searches today to make my private life less private?

It merely added today’s activities to the vast and extensive database records it already has collectively called “Vonbrick the innocent”

Cool snark, bro.  And yet, I await a substantive answer as to what it is that Google does that invades my personal privacy.  [TICK TOCK TICK TOCK]

The biggest beef is with Google's business model which is predicated on selling all the information it's collected on people to advertisers and in return inundating you with ads.  At its heart it's still predominantly an advertising company.

You sure about that? https://safety.google/privacy/ads-and-data/

"We do not sell your personal information to anyone"

bluefire1 said:

What about the majority of iPhone users who could care less about transferring 4K videos and the like. For us, this update is minimal.

Minimal for you. Massive for others. Who's opinion is more valid?

mayfly said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

mayfly said:

"This suggests that multiple models within the iPhone 15 series will support Thunderbolt/USB4's high-speed 40Gbps data transmission,"

What are people doing on their iPhones that would benefit from 40Gbps data transmission bandwidth?

Transferring 4K videos taken using iPhones to their Macs?

LOL!! You could do that at 20Gbps. Or 10. Or 1. It would give you more time to think whether that 4K video is worth the drive space!

So you're saying that we should be content with abysmally slow transfer speeds because (checks notes) it gives us time to think about our choices?

So you're saying that we should be happy that transfer speeds are really bad, and this is a good thing that we should not want improved? Is that what you're saying? 

Is your desire to defend a tech company's choices as perfect strong enough to make you think this is reasonable?

mayfly said:

"This suggests that multiple models within the iPhone 15 series will support Thunderbolt/USB4's high-speed 40Gbps data transmission,"

What are people doing on their iPhones that would benefit from 40Gbps data transmission bandwidth?

Transferring ProRes videos to their Macs. Waiting for iCloud sync for 10GB+ videos is painful. 

StrangeDays said:

mulasien said:

But...why though? What problem is this solving that's not going to introduce bigger problems?

FTA you just read: "But it would also potentially give the iPhone 15 Pro greater water and dust resistance"

What problems does your engineering background indicate this will introduce?

First issue has nothing to do with engineering, but rather a user adjustment from the last 10+ years of interacting with an iphone. The ability to mute your phone by feel and know if it's muted without having to look at a screen to confirm via a toggle switch. One thing I missed when I was on Android phones was that physical toggle. Having to go into settings to mute my Android phone was a PAIN vs simply toggling a physical switch. Losing a toggle switch after establishing it as a differentiating feature of iPhones feels like a step backwards, in my opinion. That is a user-interface trade off to be made in favor of better water resistance, though I'd wager that the current water resistance is just fine now without having to make such a major trade off.

From an engineering standpoint, if the buttons are haptic only, how do you hard reset the phone in the case of a lock up? If the buttons are software-driven, and the software is inoperable, what's the manual bypass?

The only thing more non-user-friendly would be to remove the charging port...or are you part of THAT crowd?

appleinsideruser said:

Quite funny, but a faulty premise. Aren’t Keynote docs in iCloud by default?

If you save to iCloud drive, or an iCloud drive synced folder. A business all in with Apple/iCloud as their primary productivity suite would likely use it, but businesses using Dropbox/M365/Google Workspace, etc would use those services instead.