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Pandora was really the first mainstream streaming service, it beat out Spotify by a few months. My memory is hazy but Spotify had very large holes in its music catalog for the first few years compared to Pandora. So I ended up using Pandora and wait…
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It's probable that Apple has been testing Macs (more than one model) using A-series SoCs for 10+ years in their labs, that is, before the M-series silicon became a reality. For sure Apple is intimately familiar with A-series SoC capabilities and li…
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iOS_Guy80 said: When can I pre-order? You'll know when everyone else knows: after Apple officially announces the product. And that's most likely to coincide with the new iPhone 17 models -- thus September of this year. At that time Apple …
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MassiveAttack said: mpantone said: It's worth pointing out that the Services Division has been the fastest growing business unit at Apple since before the pandemic. It's important to remember that Apple views itself primarily as a sof…
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I use freeware LosslessCut for trimming videos: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut https://losslesscut.macupdate.com/ It's very simple and won't transcode the source content. I used QuickTime in the past but as Apple has dumbed down that appli…
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It's worth pointing out that the Services Division has been the fastest growing business unit at Apple since before the pandemic. It's important to remember that Apple views itself primarily as a software company: one whose software and services ru…
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JinTech said: So, how many offices does Apple currently have in Cupertino? Legit question. Short answer: no one here knows. Longer answer: Apple has many properties in Cupertino. The leases are staggered and don't come up for renewal at t…
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AppleInsider said: Outages of Apple's online services are an occasional hazard, and sometimes they can happen at inconvenient times. Read on AppleInsider Cloud service outages are never convenient regardless of when they happen. That's …
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You know, if a third-party tech journalism site needs to explain why a first-party ad is legit, well, that's a COMPLETE fail for Apple.
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I don't see why anyone is should be surprised by this. There was zero growth for the FireWire interface over many years while USB exploded. Apple discontinued all Macs that featured FireWire interfaces years ago and wholeheartedly embraced USB and …
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Apple has explicitly labeled Apple Intelligence as "Beta" for a reason, probably several. People, this service isn't ready for primetime. Hell, Apple can't run any of its iCloud services with 100% uptime. That's simply unrealistic. All of these ser…
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Appleish said: Darn. Was hoping for a surprise release this fall. Who knows if humans will even exist next year? Since Apple put references into the first developer beta of iOS 26, it's more likely that it will come out some time this year…
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michelb76 said: Even with the M4 Max, Apple still has long way to go. Apple will never beat the top consumer PC GPU. Apple has explained their priority time and time again, most prominently during the 2020 keynote when they revealed Apple S…
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KMWAZ said: shamino said: It's never been that complicated. Any sub-30s audio file encoded as AAC can be used. Just rename the file to have an ".m4r" extension and drag/drop it onto the phone (via the Finder on modern versions of mac…
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shamino said: It's never been that complicated. Any sub-30s audio file encoded as AAC can be used. Just rename the file to have an ".m4r" extension and drag/drop it onto the phone (via the Finder on modern versions of macOS, via iTunes for …
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LLMs are a dead end with clear limitations that won't bring Apple or anyone else to that contextual awareness + common sense that people see in commercials or dream about. Apple can forget about releasing an "improved" [sic] Siri if it is only as g…
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cpsro said: Starting at 0:50, whatever processing was done has added awful vertical stripes to his head. Through the rest of the video that I've glanced through, which is front view, the processing hints at trying to do the same. This can't b…
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Sbutler is correct. Even Steve himself thought of Apple as primarily a software company. Apple has always followed Alan Kay's mantra "People who are serious about software should make their own hardware." Apple is a software-first company whose so…
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As others have said, most of this functionality has been available for years. My guess is that a native macOS Phone app will make it easier for Apple Intelligence to use all of this data, much more so than a browser-based interface. There are privac…
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Look, what was shown at WWDC 2024 -- whether it was faked or real -- has less relevance. I'm pretty sure that if fed the right inquiry/parameters, Apple Intelligence would have behaved similarly to what was shown then. What we don't know is A.) if …