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Editorial: How AirPods and Shortcuts shifted Apple's Siri story and blunted Amazon's Alexa...
smaffei said:Are you kidding me?!?Siri is dead last when it comes to usefulness (and accuracy) in voice assistants.Thanks for a FUD piece of journalism.
Personally, I use Siri at least ten times as often now as I did before the deep Shortcuts integration. In that way I’ve expanded Siri’s vocabulary with almost 40 new functions that I actually use – many times per week.
Alexa I don’t even use anymore. It was more of an experiment already from the start. Wanted to see what it could possibly give me of real value. Turned out not much, because its phrases simply didn’t correlate with my real-world needs. With Siri + Shortcuts I hit my personal use-cases automatically.
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2018 MacBook Pro keyboards include silicone membrane, might protect against key failure
minicoffee said:Hopefully there won't be an excess heat issue with potentially less ventilation through the keyboard, plus the larger battery. -
Apple reportedly pushes Foxconn to invest $1B to expand iPhone manufacturing in India
So happy some of you cleared that misunderstanding of slavery up in here. I’ve been part of both moving tech jobs to and from India. And I can verify that they are extremely appreciated there. We left a big hole in their economy when we had to move out of Chennai a couple of years ago. Both white- and blue collar jobs were lost locally. Interviews with former employees showed some of them even lost part of their work pride. It turned out to be high status working for a western hitech company — and we didn’t even pay Apple’s salary levels. -
Designer makes $100k in six days selling icons for iOS 14
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Apple cancelled encrypted iCloud plans after the FBI complained
CloudTalkin said:Soli said:CloudTalkin said:TheCodingArt said:I understand compromise, but come on. This just makes iCloud a less desirable platform.
Rant: More people need to understand the tech they use. Half the hand wringing wouldn't exist if we did. Not picking on you. Just using your quote as a jump off point.
/end rant
Afaik, iCloud backups have never been encrypted and Apple has said they weren't encrypted from the beginning. Has everyone just ignored that and relied on Apple's marketing for their information? People who take Apple's marketing as fact and make additional assumptions based on that marketing... yeah, not really seeing what you seem to be seeing. Apple's marketing does what marketing is supposed to do: make their products seem desirable. It's effective but it shouldn't replace a person's desire for actual facts.
If people were so concerned about privacy and security, wouldn't they take the time to understand what that privacy and security entails? Kinda seems some are more enamored with the idea and marketing of privacy and security than the actual thing, and they get upset when real reality doesn't dovetail with their version of reality.
Literally nothing has changed. Apple has done nothing different. The only thing different is some have more information than they had before. Info that has always been available. -
Apple releases HomePod software update 14.1 with Intercom
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Evidence mounting that Apple is preparing alternative to Google search
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What to expect from Apple for late 2020 and early 2021
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Notifications repeatedly tell iOS 14 beta testers to download nonexistent update
DerbyshireApple said:danlord2711 said:Just tested the fix suggested in the article and it works! Set the date as yesterday (or further- tested rolling the clock back 24hrs, 48hrs, and 1 month back) and the problem disappears. Cheers!
Just wait for the fix to be available, we all volunteered for this!
Hotel California: “You can check out any time, but you can never leave” -
iOS and macOS 'Fortnite' players given in-game currency to use on other platforms