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Apple Watch growth lags as rivals push hard on health features & lower prices
Another thing that sets Apple apart is accuracy. The Xiaomi Smart Band 9 is not accurate at all, making it a worthless trinket for fitness/health.Marvin said:
The fitness bands are popular as they cover most of the basics at a lower price. Apple Watch SE at $249 is a reasonable starting price but some of the fitness bands are under $100:AppleInsider said:The company credited strong Redmi Band 5 sales and deeper integration through HyperOS, its custom operating system.
https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-Version-Display-Battery-Resistant/dp/B0D8WQ94W5 ($58)
One thing that would set Apple apart is the style options. Usually the fitness bands have basic styles like on the left below. If they had styles like on the right to make the bands look more like jewellery, more people would be inclined to go for them.
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SiriGPT: Apple's chiefs hope to add full chatbot functionality to Siri, eventually
Plenty of time for Apple to figure it out, as AI use is still pretty low. But making a chatbat interface would be very uninspired as the current text chat interfaces are mediocre at best. I'd expect deeper integration in my daily tasks.
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Meta has poached two more heavyweights from Apple's AI team
Do you want to sell create cool stuff for the rest of your life, or do you want to destroy teen mental health and create a dystopian world? - Mark Z.
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macOS Tahoe beta 2 swaps Finder icon colors back after historic design fumble
This is so weirdly un-Apple. Was this a marketing thing? Why would someone be so stupid as to touch this major piece of branding and identity in the first place? There is no logical reason for this, except extreme lack of direction and quality control.
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Blood oxygen sensing shows no sign of returning to Apple Watch any time soon
So happy that patents continue to advance humanity. /s
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Meta has poached two more heavyweights from Apple's AI team
There is a LOT of talent at Apple, you can just figure that out by the papers and certain WWDC videos. There are also a lot of horrid VP's at Apple.Rogue01 said:Poaching AI talent from Apple? Really? Has Meta never used Siri? Are they following the disaster of Apple Intelligence? One would think poaching from Apple for AI talent would be the last place anyone would look. Or, these individuals are experts in AI, but Apple's ridiculous restrictions are preventing them from demonstrating their expertise, so they happily bailed and went elsewhere. I am not holding my breath on Apple 'fixing' Siri, especially when they claim it won't be fixed until late Spring 2026. Apple is behind in AI and continuing to fall behind in AI.
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M4 Max Mac Studio vs M1 Ultra Mac Studio compared: A multi-generational shootout
Apple seems to be already running into the same problems as they had with Intel chips. Performance between gen 1 and 4 should be way higher. Guessing they probably want to make the R&D money back with incremental updates and upgrade pricing, which makes sense. Guess i'll have to wait for M5/6 to be worth it, coming from M1. -
Valve's Steam gaming client is finally getting an Apple Silicon native upgrade
There is no incentive for developers to do that (for the foreseeable future).apple4thewin said:Hopefully that means Apple works with Steam to make a temporary Game Porting Toolkit native mod until developers decide to update their applications.
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Valve's Steam gaming client is finally getting an Apple Silicon native upgrade
There is no market for mac gaming. Performance still isn't great except for the top model macs, which are not begin bought by gamers. Also, there is very little to no profit in gaming for PC due to rampant piracy. Only console games make a bit of money because of the lock-in. The gaming market for PC is dying.9secondkox2 said:It boggles why this hasn’t been done already.
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Pebble's new smartwatches take on Apple Watch with longer battery life
Hampered by Apple anticompetitive stuff so it will suck using this with iOS. https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-awesome-with-iphones
It will probably integrate fantastically with Android, so pick your poison.
