bulk001

Funny how Apple Insider is pushing these stories - minor upgrade makes iMac best ever, Apple Watch now best ever a year later, iPhone 16 best iPhone ever. Next up expecting Apple Intelligence best ever AI? Seems kind of desperate but then again I am not part of the dumb demographic Apple seems to think the community is made up of. They are right about that though of course! LOL. 

lkrupp said:

DAalseth said:

Mostly it’s just hype and vague hand waving. But we are working toward actual satellite cell service. No more worrying about coverage, or if the blackout shut down your close towers, (that happened to us in December). Actual any time anywhere cell coverage. It won’t be in ‘23 or even ‘24. I’m thinking the early ‘30s, but you can see the first bits now. 

I’m thinking this will be more hype than anything, just like 5G has turned out to be. Just like fusion power generation has promised cheap, clean, non polluting energy for fifty years now. And it will be very expensive too.

How did you manage to work fusion power into your ever sour and deranged commentary? Personally all for people devoting themselves to trying to accomplish new things. “Ah, I discovered the wheel! No cars for it so it will never work!” “Must be hard to be you!”

Mike Wuerthele said:

ssfe11 said:

It’s one clueless Judge who is making this decision. Once an intelligent tech savvy court hears the details of this case they will shake their heads in amazement that Judge Rogers ruled this way. 

I do not believe that the US has one of these.

So you disagree with her other rulings favoring Apple in the larger case too then? Thought not.

Scot1 said:

I’m not a lawyer, of course, but what’s the difference between getting a court ordered warrant to enter someone’s home or workplace if they are under investigation for bad acts against the population or the government and doing the same thing to investigate same on someone’s phone?  

How do you find a balance between keeping people safe and respecting the rights of the individual?

I thought that’s what the courts were supposed to do and so having a back channel to go into someone’s phone under the authority of the courts isn’t such a bad idea is it? I mean the whole premises if you’re not doing something wrong…

Entering a physical location only affects that location. Having a law that allows the UK to enter any Apple users data affects us all. And opens our data not just to the UK but other governments who will demand the same thing and of
course hackers who will find a way in. I never bothered about encryption as I have nothing to hide till suddenly loyalty to one politician and tech titan become a real issue. If you are a racial minority, woman, gay / trans say in the military, drive past an abortion clinic in California or New York and Texas or Florida wants that data now it suddenly becomes a much bigger concern. If you are a dissident or journalist it is an even bigger problem not just in Iran but even the U.S. as a recent decision regarding AP access has shown. 

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/crucial-cve-flaw-tracking-database-narrowly-avoids-closure-to-dhs-cuts/

I don’t like it but the reality is that if the Defense Secretary says the information was not classified, then it is not classified and your headline is factually inaccurate. Just like when the Speaker says that the rest of the session is one day long to prevent Dems from introducing legislation then from a legal POV that is that. Is this what America voted for? I don’t know, but it wasn’t what, or who, I voted for. But there are consequences and this is one of them (along with tariffs destroying the global economy). 

JMaille said:

I was going to post a comment about this before all the Apple haters jumped in and started spouting nonsense about this being a big win for developers and consumers, but then I decided why bother.  It's obvious we're all screwed anyway.  This isn't even a big enough issue to be a bump in the road.

Patreon has already said it will decrease prices by 30%. I'd call that a big win. Apple has been hiding this from the judge exactly because it IS a big deal to their profits.

Wesley Hilliard said:

9secondkox2 said:

Tim’s ai, headset, and car haven’t panned out so far. 

Would love to see a return to the days of Apple not releasing something until it’s 100% ready and captivating. I’ll give Cook’s car a pass since it was never officially announced. 

Even the watch was closely guarded. And it was a success when it finally launched. A return to form in that regard would be most welcome. 

No more public experiments and betas please. 

I'll never understand what people mean when they say this other than "I don't like it so it didn't pan out." By what metrics are you measuring the panning? 

Other than delaying one feature, Apple Intelligence is doing fine. Apple didn't promise a sentient machine like others in the space did. Is that a bad thing? Them delaying something that isn't ready instead of releasing it anyway is exactly what you're asking Apple to do, yet you're criticizing them for it.

And unless you know something about how Apple Vision Pro has done so far and Apple's expectation for the product, there's no way of knowing "how it panned out." It's been pretty awesome from my perspective.

Right you are. Now back to making your emojis or whatever emoji related feature Apple brought to its “intelligence”

Great overview. Seems like while Apple won the battle, Epic won the war! Every developer can now just link out without the Apple tax (though having run a medium sized online retail operation once, there are fees, expenses and just overall peace of mind that may not make it worth it for smaller devs to move away from Apple). For Amazon etc this is a big win. 

tallest skil said:

bulk001 said:

The killing of the 100 million started with those who though one life does not matter.

And you’re fostering that all over again.

Make me think you should start thinking more than just about what words mean before you write anything!

Please correct yourself before someone lines you up against the wall and shoots you. Not a threat; a warning! Your beliefs are false and they’ll lead you to be hurt.

bulk001 said:

Maybe when women get raped on our school campuses

Let me guess… ONE IN FIVE, right? Laughable.

rape is okay if you want to have sex

For fuck’s sake, do you have any fucking idea what sarcasm is?! Holy fucking shit. You’re not even FUNNY if you’re joking here.

Was just reading about this cop who confronted a man who had raped when she was eight and he said that she had wanted it and he was actually being good to her. Seeing it is you Tallest Skil though I userstand you are not too bright and probably it was a good faith effort at sarcasm on your part. Don't get offended, that was sacrcam too!