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  • Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected

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    Scot1 said:

    I tried to use image playground again. It was working before but now I get an error message saying that Siri and my iPhone must use the same language. Currently your iPhone is English Canada and Siri is set for English Canada, lol

    At the risk of bringing in a distraction to the topic, and coming from the other side if the pacific, what is the difference between Yankee English and Canadian English? Cause it sounds all the same to me. Does Siri put an “eh” at the end of each sentence?

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  • First Mac Studio M3 Ultra benchmarks significantly outpace the M2 Ultra

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    A strange choice to release an M3 ultra instead of an M4 ultra at this point.  But , no doubt reasons that make sense to Apple.

    given it is modern Apple, I reckon prime reason is the profit margin. The M3 is still faster than an M4 max, but importantly parts bin and thus its margin is better than an M4 ultra would be.  
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  • Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected

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    This is what happens when you have a supply chain expert in charge of an innovative company. 
    • Want to  make good computers so make some profit to do that; vs
    • Want to make a profit so make some good computers to do that . 
    A subtle difference, but turns out it is everything. It takes time to be revealed, and then it is clear to see and difficult to fix.
    Tim Apple is exposed as in the second category.  

    This Siri debacle is a clear example of it.  It has been poor for years, and nothing was done about it because software isn’t in the supply chain for hardware (thus low priority), and here we are.

    and now Apple is so far behind it is becoming uncool. But hey, let’s get that geriatric pompous git King Charles (or more likely, an underling of his media manager) to do a playlist.  
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  • Apple's extortionate upgrade prices can't stop the MacBook Air being a bargain

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    Just bought an almost maxed out 15 inch MBA in sky blue (24GB, 2TB) because, well I could, delivery 12/3/25. But upgrade prices really stick in my craw and means I update only after five plus years. This in fact is replacing Mrs Entropy’s 2019 MBP.

    DAalseth said:

    If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

    I have increasingly been feeling that Apple under Tim Cook has forgotten this. 
    Yes, I was always concerned the supply chain master would focus on margins above all else, thus keeping products at the same basic iteration for much longer than Jobs would, and relying on his lieutenants to do the innovation, but always fitting into margins.

    Yes, CharlesN, jobs did learn some hard lessons along the way, although I can clearly remember Apple fans incensed when John Scully engineered a coup. Aand how about this as a counterfactual to ponder: if Jobs had still been at the helm, instead of a corporate weenie, would Apple have been caught with its pants down with Windows 95? 
    As for Next, yet another OS would always struggle to get traction beyond a niche.  A key part of “beleaguered Apple Computer” resurrection was using NEXT as its new foundation.

    Anyway, here is a more detailed quote of Jobs after he had learned his lesson, in a staff meeting with people upset with the cutting out of favourite projects to save Apple:.

    What happened at Apple, to be honest, over the years was the goal used to be to make the best computers in the world. And that was goal one. Goal two, we got from Hewlett-Packard actually which was "we have to make a profit". Because if we don't make a profit we can't do goal one. So, yeah, I mean we enjoyed making a profit, but the purpose of making a profit was so we can make the best computers in the world. Along the way somewhere those two got reversed. The goal is to make a lot of money and well, if we have to make some good computers well ok we'll do that... 'cause we can make a lot of money doing that. And, it's very subtle. It's very subtle at first, but it turns out it's everything. That one little subtle flip... takes 5 years to see it, but that one little subtle flip in 5 years means everything.

    Lastly, we're really big on making computers our friends can afford, and not all our friends are Larry Ellison. So, we've got to make computers that are really affordable and I think that's another place that Apple got really off-track and we are just driving that really hard.

    Indeed. These days it would be more like “Not all our friends are Elon Musk.”

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  • Apple updates iPad Air with faster M3 processor

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    Speaking as someone with an IPP M4, I would get this IPA M3 and pocket the savings.
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