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tokyojimu said: Maybe they should have been investing time and effort into Siri and AI instead of Jony’s car project. That ship sailed a long time ago. Now they are playing catchup. Hindsight is always 20-20. Apple has an additional hurdl…
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gatorguy said: mpantone said: As far as I can tell, consumer-facing AI isn't improving in leaps and bounds anymore, and probably hasn't for about a year or 18 months. A couple weeks before Super Bowl I asked half a dozen LLM-powered A…
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As far as I can tell, consumer-facing AI isn't improving in leaps and bounds anymore, and probably hasn't for about a year or 18 months. A couple weeks before Super Bowl I asked half a dozen LLM-powered AI assitant chatbots when the Super Bowl kick…
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8thman said: I avoid SERIES lock-ins. I don’t want the time commitment. I prefer Movies. The Stories are Mediocre and production values are lower than movies. That's fine, but Apple TV+ is a subscription service. If you just want movies,…
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VPNs aren't a fix-all solution. One glaring issue has nothing to do with ISPs. Many sites flag traffic through VPNs has potentially malicious. Some of the VPN servers I connect to will err out when visiting some sites. There are other sites that w…
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Nah, Apple won't buy Ubisoft. Ubisoft has a lot of problems and undoubtedly the Guillemot family will ask too much for it yet insist on control. Apple does not let any of its corporate acquisitions call the shots. But this article is about a telev…
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As I predicted elsewhere Apple has done what I expect. They produced a modem chip with comparable performance (minus mmWave) to the competition with a huge power savings. It's the latter that benefits all iPhone 16e owners. Also top speed isn't re…
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apple4thewin said: Is he on temporary leave or just straight up out of there? (As in completely fired) Probably not fired since his name is still on the leadership page on the corporate website. We'll see in a day or two if he is left up t…
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chasm said: Hard to imagine what the NEXT five years will bring us. If you'd told me that Apple would someday be the innovation leader in the chip industry a few years back, I'd have laughed. Well then your understanding of the semiconduct…
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ApplePoor said: Make sure Apple's AI is turned off on ALL of your Apple devices. The bad news is that you have to check it is still OFF with any and every upgrade on every device. What a major unnecessary pain in the backside. Unfortunatel…
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Lettuce said: Photo search already has difficulty searching my 150.000+ photo library with simple terms. How will Siri be able to scan it quickly enough for this kind of process? It depends. If you use iCloud Photos, most likely Apple Int…
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First of all, just because an Apple (or Google) mapping car drives by doesn't automatically mean that its recording equipment is operating. And not all of the data that the car records will be automatically used. Apple -- like Google -- will focus …
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Two-thirds of the time is horrid. Even 90% is useless. Put it in perspective using an actual real world comparable scenario: a human personal assistant. Let's say you give your human P.A. three tasks: pick up dry cleaning (via TaskRabbit for the …
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I never said that there shouldn't be native apps on all of Apple's platforms. But clearly someone at Apple decided to deprioritize native Mac and Apple TV apps. And guess what? We are not going to learn the reasoning for this delay. Who knows? Maybe…
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I don't really think the hardware is the roadblock here. It's the software (as usual). If Joe Consumer plugs in a brand new Philips Hue smartbulb into a dumb socket, the smarthome network needs to be able to configure flawlessly. HomeKit adoption is…
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AI isn't a selling point for smartphone hardware (yet) so it's not like any delay will result in less marketshare. However irresponsibly inept software implementations will erode customer trust. That's the big issue. TRUST IS EARNED. They can't jus…
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AppleZulu said: Well, this is a profoundly odd choice on Apple's part. Why would they go to the trouble of making Apple Classical Music available via a web browser, but not natively on a mac or on AppleTV? Because web browsers run on lots of…
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By now it's clear that Apple Intelligence (and other AI) isn't really driving smartphone hardware sales. There was no big pop in sales when the Apple Intelligence capable iPhone 16 family debuted. So a slow rollout of Apple Intelligence features lik…
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Today's Siri is the result of years of neglect by Apple. They probably tried to bolt on some AI capabilities to Siri which is like putting lipstick on a pig. And then they belatedly realized that they were looking at a pig with lipstick. Now they r…
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macplusplus said: More personalized Siri... Easy to utter, extremely hard to conceive and implement. The biggest drawback of current LLMs is their lack of "context retention". Ask any of the most powerful LLMs they will list that among their …