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AppleZulu said:

saarek said:

AppleZulu said:

Honestly, it’s remarkable how long Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field remains in effect after his own death. 

The perception that he introduced new, fully-formed, instantly successful category killer products on an annual basis continues unabated. This is, of course, the driving force behind the perpetual lamentations about incrementalism at Apple. 

Turn off the RDF, and you’d realize everything at Apple has started at a slow burn and moved along at an incremental pace thereafter. Even the iPhone took years to become an instant success. 

The gloomy predictions in this article seem largely based on some features not showing up yet in the current iOS beta. I personally wouldn’t recommend selling your stock based on that. Either way, this stuff takes time to get right, and then when it does, everyone forgets about the half-baked competition that was supposed to be ahead of the curve. 

Siri is currently better than the peanut gallery claims, and in my experience, the occasional regressions where Siri stumbles on something that used to work usually turn out to be the result of back-end updates that come before a boost in Siri power or features. 

Lost in the grousing about iPhone 16e and MagSafe is the fact that the included hardware didn’t skimp on its ability to handle ‘Apple Intelligence.’ That’s because that’s what’s coming in the immediate pipeline, and they’re not going to sell a new iPhone that can’t handle it. Apple’s decisions about the 16e likely would’ve been different if the delays predicted in this article are accurate. 

I think that it's fair to say that people have a right to be frustrated here. You've got to remember that Siri first shipped in 2011, Apple had first mover advantage and it failed to deliver on the original promisses. In 2014 it was eclipsed on day one by Amazon's Alexa and was further pushed into also-ran status when Google Assistant launched in 2016. 

Yes, for super basic queries, Siri does just fine. But, after nearly 14 years of being on the market, you'd think that they'd have caught up by now. 

Think of Apple Maps. When it launched, it was rightly called out for being a mess and for being an inferior replacement for Google Maps. It took a few generations, but I've not heard the average person bitch about Apple Maps for years now.

Consider where iOS is today and what it can do now against iOS version 5. Yes, Siri has moved on a bit from iOS 5 too, of course it has. But it's still absurdly basic and poorly received by the masses in comparison to the competition.

...note that Apple has indicated that its AI will in the future be able to engage with apps on the users' devices. This potentially expands its capability to legitimately tap into user-paid content so that Siri can read or otherwise conveniently provide that content to the user on demand, all while respecting IP and user privacy and security. 

Because google doesn't have nearly as much control over the hardware that runs Android, they couldn't begin to do what Apple is preparing to do, even if they wanted to. Instead, Android assistant will have to be farmed out to AI running on google's servers.

Google will be doing that thing you say they can't do, beginning with the Pixel 10.
Personal "Assistant" (it will be rebadged, possibly Pixie) data is processed privately, securely, and on-device. No "AI running on Google servers" required.

libertyandfree said:

foregoneconclusion said:

jfabula1 said:

quakerotis said:

Like so much of a bribery victim's fealty, this will amount to no investment, no jobs, but plenty of time for T**** (the convicted felon and sexual predator) to lead his boy Cook around on a leash.

At least his trying instead of giving away your earned tax dollars. Get over it dude, you’re still crying of your election lost.
Tim will worked harder for this great American tax paying company. 

Sounds like you're not aware that the GOP plans on doing a $4.5 trillion tax cut that primarily benefits corporations and the wealthy. They're going to extend the $2 trillion cut from 2017 and add another $2.5 trillion on top. Keep in mind that the $2 trillion cut from 2017 was in place during the entire Biden administration. So if you didn't like the Biden economy,  the ineffectiveness of that tax cut was part of it. 

  The new taxcuts are mostly an extension of the exisiting tax law from 2017.  The lowering of the corporate taxes brought the US from 2nd highest in the OECD to the middle of the pack and stopped the corporate inversions, which every liberal conveniently ignores.  BTW, tax receipts are at al time highs.  Seems obvious but apparently needs to be stated, that all tax cuts go mostly to those who earn more money because they also pay the highest amount taxes and at the highest tax rates (The US has a highly progressive income tax system).  This very simple 4th grade mathematics seems beyond most liberals and Democratic Congress peoples comprehension - or so they pretend.  They beleive a tax cut means people that pay zero or almost zero in income taxes need to get thousands of dollars back from the govt, tax cuts are for people that pay taxes, it's not govt welfare.  

In and of itself, I don't necessarily disagree. But you aren't acknowledging what the current administration will do to accomplish it.

More of the safety net put in place for the poorest among us, and often with the fewest opportunities to move higher in the pecking order, will be snatched away to shift to the wealthiest. Without “stealing from the poor” those tax cuts and more can't be advanced. There was a time when the budget was not only balanced, but delivered a surplus paying down the deficit. It was not so long ago either, happening in your adult lifetime. You should read how and who made it happen. Trumps method will not work to do the same. 

rob53 said:

Why in Texas? People thought Apple's products were getting too expensive, just wait for products coming out of Texas. They will break everyone's budget. Who in Texas will actually work at this manufacturing facility? Will everything be automated? Where will the people for these 20K come from, India? Who's going to build the facility? Not the hardest workers from south of the border. trump made sure of that.

Final assembly will be in Texas, and only for servers that Apple is using in their own facilities. All the pieces will still be imported, already matched and boards fully assembled, just needing to be put in the shells. In actuality, probably nothing changes from what Apple was already doing and planning. But Trump likes his boasting moments and Apple is giving him one he'll be allowed to take credit for. 

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Why are people on the left so angry? 

I'm a lifelong Republican, a dyed-in-the-wool Reaganite back in the day and a door-to-door campaigner for Richard Nixon at my tender age of 13 as a Young Republican. 
Mr. Trump is not representative of my beliefs, nor hardly a shining example of the best America has to offer. We should have done so much better than this, and could have if my chosen party had the cajones.

One branch of our government will not be doing it's sworn duty in the short-term, but perhaps by this time next year Congress will have found where they left their backbone. We have three branches for good reason. 

braytonak said:

I have to disagree with such a favorable rating. 

Backlight banding when auto brightness is enabled? Unusable HDR over USB-C? Those two points alone should barely earn 4. 

Add in the unlabeled controls (unless the labels appear on-screen,) cheap plastic, and speakers that are most likely only good enough for notifications to really make it a pass-with-a-push. 

I know, the point is the display itself. I’ve waited almost ten years for a decent 5K. Maybe the next Studio Display will be the sweet spot. 

I have two ProArt's now, both 32" for graphics work. I would agree more with the author.

Speakers on a monitor are for users who don't care all that much about sound quality. Good enough for a few Youtube videos but not for great music. So that's not a ProArt fail IMO.

Banding with auto-dim only on a very pale background is another non-issue as far as I'm concerned. I have my monitors in the same place under the same lighting 24/7, and all of them with hoods to minimize stray light. Why would I want persistent auto-dim? My major objection is it changes my perceived color tones. That's the same reason I turn off auto-dim on my SmartTV. I would understand if the light was constantly in flux, like with my smartphone wanderings. For the limited want to dim my computer monitor. manually doing so once or twice a week as desired (or in my case never) isn't problematic. Again, not an Asus fail. 

Controls? Yes they are labeled on screen, but I will agree I'm no fan of how Asus incorporates the controls. It could be improved. Fortunately that's another feature that's rarely touched after setup. Dimming can be accomplished with a hot key.

Plastic exterior components? They're not hammers so what's the issue with a lighter build. You set it up and forget it. My current Asus monitors are solid. 

Built in KVM works for me. Both systems that use my Asus monitors are set up with two computers/one monitor, one for design and one for RIP, and we go back and forth regularly each day. Mine are set up with separate KVM's, another box to make room for. Built-in = better. 

For color accuracy and system compatibility, I could not be happier, and mine are only 4K. The value of this 5K monitor far outweighs the out-of-pocket cost. "You can buy two and still have money left over versus buying Apple's expensive Studio Display" means a whole lot more to me than whether a monitor frame is plastic.