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Apple Intelligence - what Macs, iPads, and iPhones are required
Perhaps because it may not move the needle on iPhone demand all that much, as a lot of people don't (yet) think that the current menu of AI offerings goes much beyond being on a scale of laughable (Gemini)-to-mediocre (ChatGPT/MetaAI/Anthropic)?GeneT said:Apple just told the world that almost everyone with an iPhone will need to buy a new phone to do this stuff. (Only last year's Pro phones as good enough). How can the stock possibly be down?For example, to the extent that it's useful, the OpenAI app works perfectly fine for me on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. Normally, I upgrade every two years, but unless the iPhone 16 offers something more radical than typically touted attributes like more speed, smaller bevel size, longer battery, better camera, is a wee bit thinner etc., I may skip even the 16. At this point, the phones (and iPads) are so good that even an Apple-crazy customer like myself is starting to go 'meh' with the incremenaility of hardware improvements.
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Apple pushes back on India's demand to support GPS rival in 2023 iPhones
"Intrusive, meddlesome and way too bureaucratic" is an apt description of the Indian government.badmonk said:India seems more problematic than other countries in working with manufacturers…intrusive, meddlesome and way too bureaucratic.
But much more so than, say, China (e.g., privacy), Brazil (all manner of issues), or the EU (e.g., dongles, intrusive taxes) in their own ways? No.
But if the worry is that the volumes sold there do not (yet) justify that expense, I would tend to agree, but that's a different argument.
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Apple in talks to license Google Gemini AI for iPhones
Pathetic. What's Apple thinking, licensing that utterly bizarre POS piece of technology?The only headline should be: "Fresh on the heels of admitting abject failure with, and abandoning, their AV project, Apple adds AI to the list."Tim Cook's Apple seems to have run out of ideas and talent. Hurts to say that, as a 40-year user of the company's products, and 20-year shareholder. The only competitive advantage that Apple has now seems to be that its competitors are worse.
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iPhone 16 review: Bold colors, new buttons, promises for the future
New buttons! New colors!
What has happened to Apple. More importantly, its one-time aficionados… what an incredibly sad state of affairs.l
I’ll stick with my iPhone 14 pro max for now. The 16 is currently not worth the upgrade.
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Apple Intelligence & Private Cloud Compute are Apple's answer to generative AI
A rather lame, half-baked, underwhelming attempt at AI.A $3000B company with thousands and thousands of developers and a history of spectacular innovations can’t come up with it’s own AI? -
Apple's iPhone modem design is three years behind Qualcomm
3 years is a lifetime in this business for good industry leaders to lead even further. Ask Apple.
Tough task ahead to wean off Qualcomm. -
Five more iOS 26 features leak from a reliable source
Wow!
INNOVATION!!
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Apple nears $1 billion in Bay Area office space expansion in three months
Cool. In the meantime, I hear Meta is offering up to $1B for talent….
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iOS 18.6 arrives with a Photos improvement and bug fixes
The current Photos app is… well, to put it bluntly, a disaster. On both iOS and iPadOS. Minor fixes here and there are not going to do it. It needs a root canal. Or, they could simply go back to 2022.Apple has too many software developers doing not very much more than twiddle their thumbs. When they’re not going, “what UI tweaks can I make today to mess up people’s user experiences…”.But I hear Apple is buying new real estate to employ lots of new developers. Yay!! -
Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what ...
Someone who “made what Apple is” is not necessarily the same as the person who can make Apple what it can be.Cook needs to make a graceful exit, and soon. Otherwise he runs the risk of acquiring Ballmer status…
