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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.
    @smaffei: ;Have you even tried Shortcuts with Siri?
    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

    Hopefully there won't be an excess heat issue with potentially less ventilation through the keyboard, plus the larger battery.
    That’s a very good comment since the air flow through the keyboard has previously been mentioned by Apple as a contributing factor to heat dissipation.
    williamlondoncgWerksaylkminicoffee
  • 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.
    jony0anantksundaramronn
  • Designer makes $100k in six days selling icons for iOS 14

    This whole story must be fake, because Apple’s monopolistic behavior effectively stifles all innovation and entrepreneurship. Epic’s Sweeney dude told me that.
    steve_jobsronncornchipGG1matrix077Rayz2016watto_cobra
  • Apple cancelled encrypted iCloud plans after the FBI complained

    Soli said:
    I understand compromise, but come on. This just makes iCloud a less desirable platform.
    How does it make iCloud a less desirable platform?  It's not like Apple is removing encryption from iCloud.  It's never been encrypted and it performs as it always has.  No one is losing any functionality.  You are no less protected than you were before this article was written.  Remember, we're talking about iCloud backups.

    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
    Apple advertises how they're all about privacy and security to *gasp* attract customers that care about privacy and security, and then it comes out that Apple's very own iCloud service doesn't allow for the privacy any and security they expected. You really don't see that as a sticking point for those Cloud users?
    Comes out?  What exactly do you mean comes out?  Haven't we always known that iCloud backups weren't encrypted?  We just recently had an article on AI about the biannual transparency report detailing they amount, frequency, and types of data that Apple shares.  What did everyone think they were sharing?

    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.
    And yet, as of today I have left iCloud. You’re saying nothing has changed, right? Wrong. Think again …and harder.
    lostkiwidarkvader
  • Apple releases HomePod software update 14.1 with Intercom

    And Apple HomePods now also available in Sweden

    …not
    gregoriusm
  • Evidence mounting that Apple is preparing alternative to Google search

    I have an idea. Apple should end its current contract with Google. Then instead send them a $10B invoice for developing an Apple search engine and not using Google's …thereby saving them from the DOJ.
     ;) 
    george kaplandoozydozenolswatto_cobra
  • What to expect from Apple for late 2020 and early 2021

    AirPods Pro with “the audio quality of AirPods” !!!!!!

    WTF??????

    It will be the worst audio quality in the entire history of 
    over-the-ear headphones!!! Definitely not worth $600 bucks if that is true.
    aderuttercornchipspock1234
  • Notifications repeatedly tell iOS 14 beta testers to download nonexistent update

    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!
    Genius...if you don’t need to know the date / don’t use your calendar ߤ㦬t;br>
    Just wait for the fix to be available, we all volunteered for this!
    Agree. However, we were also promised we could opt out of the beta program at any time. I left it a week ago but still get this annoying update bug.

    Hotel California: “You can check out any time, but you can never leave”
    dewmemuthuk_vanalingam
  • iOS and macOS 'Fortnite' players given in-game currency to use on other platforms

    Pffft… nothing  here to see, guys. It's just Epic squirming cos they have a new season coming out soon, but their customers are gone fishing  …in new seas. We've all moved on.
    watto_cobra