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  • Jony Ive designs $60,000 turntable for Scottish hi-fi pioneers

    here's the video AI forgot to link for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq1x3JoclPk
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  • Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM

    basically calling their customers idiots
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  • Developers take note: Apple Silicon is required to develop apps for visionOS

    that’s kinda crazy. imagine buying a 50k Mac Pro in 2019 and not be able to develop on it, for a platform the same company makes, just four years later… 
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  • Apple licenses millions of Shutterstock images to train its AI models

    Apple is too pure for this world. 

    Open ai, Google, Meta and Microsoft, trained their ai on the web on everyone’s content. Even personal content. 

    They haven’t licensed most of the material. They straight up stollen the web. 
    Apple definitely is not too pure for this world...
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  • Undercharged: iPhone 14 owners complain about lower battery endurance

    kdogg said:
    Mine says it's at 93% capacity, and I acquired my iPhone 14 Pro in September 2022. So it's less than 1 year old. I have noticed that at the end of the day I have to charge it where it used to make it through the day without a second thought. I'm not sure what changed, but something is really dragging on the battery, so if a bunch of other people are experiencing the same thing then yeah, sounds like there's a problem.
    Like the article says, Apple expects about 10% per year. You're doing slightly better than the average of what Apple expects and plans for.

    There are loads of variables as it pertains to battery charging and life, and most of them are outside of the user's control. Some of them are even outside of Apple's control.
    10% per year seems quite a lot to me as my four-and-a-half year old XS Max is at 79%.
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  • Apple's failed 'Project Titan' was a Full Self Driving gamble

    Gurman cites a source who was involved in the decision-making that compares the plan to attempting to "skip all the early iPhone models and jump right to the iPhone X."
    This is the most important sentence of this article. Driverless technology requires tons and tons of road data for AI training. Apple collected about half a million miles of road data in 2023. That's nothing. It would have been a lot wiser of them to release a car more than five years ago and have it collect road and driving data, using it to train the self-driving technology. 
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  • Apple Music execs reveal months of work behind releasing Taylor Swift's new album

    neoncat said:
    And therein lies the core problem with Apple Music: It is to streaming services what Top 40 was to radio in the 80s. Apple is far more concerned with whether Apple Music appears to be aligned with what is "now" than building a vital and comprehensive music service, much less fixing the oft-documented problems with the garbage that is Music.app. The end result is not something that comes across as cool and essential, but rather a bunch of boomers wearing tight-fitting jeans and inviting themselves to industry parties. 

    Before the Swifties descend upon me like a ton of bricks: Tay-Tay is not, er, my cup of tea, but she's an amazing business person and I don't find her music actively terrible, or anything. It's the form of Apple's myopic partnerships, not the individual artists.

    Another example would be the weird amount of attention they kept giving Billie Eilish, who admitted in a couple interviews she found it all "very strange," and that it was entirely a construct between Apple and her record company. She had nothing to do with it, despite Apple continually selling it as a partnership between her, individually, and Apple. Again—boomers in jeans making sure to be seen rather than thinking about: Is this what my users actually want?
    Where did Eilish say that? Can't find a source
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  • Apple's future smart home ambitions leverage robotics, and go far beyond simple HomeKit li...

    Okaay now we're talking! I really hope this actually pans out in contrast with Titan...
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  • PETA names Apple as the 2023 Company of the Year

    byronl said:
    Question: Since leather is a byproduct of the meat industry, does decreasing its use actually decrease emissions?
    Possibly, but to be substantial, everyone would have to stop making leather products, not just Apple. 

    I am not buying this theory of why they discontinued those products since they love to tout what kind of leather went into SJ theater and they are using leather in remodeling some of their corporate offices presently. 
    Thank for the reply. Can you provide a link for the remodelling bit? Couldn't find anything with a quick google search.
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  • Apple VR could offer Memoji FaceTime, SharePlay experiences

    Yup, a lot of apple's features and technologies in the past couple of years are all groundwrok for apple's massive AR (and maybe VR) plans.
    these include: ARkit, realitykit, reality composer, motion capture, lidar, the truedepth system, shareplay, animoji and memoji, universal control, spatial audio, live text and translate, object and image recognition, AR maps etc etc etc
    I love the way apple lays the groundwork for a big disruption, the number of features related to spatial computing that apple has put out is only a fraction of what's to come
    I'm very excited.
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