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Wesley_Hilliard said:

It's quite an innovative launch when you're not viewing it from the "AI will take over the world and replace all jobs" nonsense point of view. Grounded here in reality, Apple Intelligence is quite useful for the everyday consumer. Does Apple need a lying chatbot?

I agree. I figure people who complain about Apple being behind just aren’t doing what I do. For example, my wife and I have been dealing with some extended family issues. We will typically use FaceTime Audio when we speak over the phone regarding these issues. One day my wife was rushing to get out the door but wanted me to send an email/text to her mother. She made a FaceTime Audio call to me from the car which I recorded with my iPhone. At the end of the call that recording was available with a transcript in Notes. I used Writing Tools to summarize the three points my wife had for her mom. I did it using “Professional” but that tone was rejected, so I redid it using “Friendly” and that got approval to send on. This was all done privately, didn’t require third-party (and potentially nosy) software and used Apple Intelligence. It worked great!

With ChatGPT I can take a photo of something and ask for assistance or directions and that works great, too. That isn’t something that Apple Intelligence can do, maybe in the future. But I ChatGPT couldn’t have done what I did with that phone call and kept it all private.

sflocal said:

Waiting for the usual tech-nerds to start complaining next week on what's taking Apple so long to implement HDMI2.2 after being available for "the last few years".

*crunching popcorn*

Or complaining they can’t watch native 16K full resolution on their iPhone.

Wesley_Hilliard said:

Also, I'm fairly certain users can edit posts using the cog in the top right of a post. It might not appear in certain page sizes, so adjust if you need to.

Sorry to be off topic, but the ability to edit posts on my iPhone and iPad using the website disappeared months ago.  That cog is not there anymore (for me). 

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sloth77 said:

I voted Remain in the UK back in 2016.  But as an Apple user, I can't say hand-on-heart that I would do so now, with the shenanigans the EU is pulling with Apple.

It is a shame, as some of the EU regulations have been decent - like the USB-C support.

Also we do get things that other countries won't get like alternative App Strores.

What have you personally downloaded from an alternative App Store? I’m curious what is available aside from porn apps, which is all I’ve seen any news about. 

I brought my MIL to an appointment and I’m sitting in the parking lot reading this. Across the street there’s a CVS. I copied this prompts, put them into Notes, changed “Uk” to “US” and removed “British”. It gave me Tim Cook as the answer. 

watto_cobra said:

Question for those with two on the go. If you swap watches during the day, does the activity you have done transfer to the other watch when you put it on? 

Yes, you’re activity is tracked by both and updated appropriately on both. I have a Series 0 and a Series 3. I mostly wear the 3 but my Series 0 is a SS Space Black with Link Bracelet that I usually wear out to dinner or to a more formal event. I’ve never had any issue with the Activity Rings showing all my activity for the day, even though I only wore the Series 0 out that night. It isn’t an immediate update, though, it can take a while for everything to sync up. 

MplsP said:

Why not just write on the screen? The iPad touchscreen is built for this kind of input/interaction.

Well, obviously, but that isn’t always the easiest thing. For instance, we frequently get documents that need multiple signatures but not all the signees are there. For instance, if my wife is at work and I’m at home I can add her signature and return the document instead of waiting for her to get home and sign it herself.

Great. Another artist I'll have to tell Siri "Never play this again."