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The best Apple Vision Pro productivity apps at launch
Rogue01 said:According to the first picture, they claim PCalc is going to make Vision Pro worth buying??? A $3500 calculator? Really?
There is no such thing as spatial computing. That is Apple's marketing spin for AR. Look up the definition of AR and that is exactly what Vision Pro is. Apple will really have a hard time claiming their device is not AR, when it actually is AR. "Augmented reality is an interactive experience that enhances the real world with computer-generated perceptual information." That is exactly what Vision Pro does. Another article had the best description for Vision Pro - It is an answer looking for a question. The AR space is dead, always has been. Plenty of surveys have been done and once the novelty wears off, the goggles sit in a bookshelf. No one wants to wear goggles for hours. No one wants to spend $3500 for a pair of goggles to run iPadOS apps, or PCalc. No one will put on goggles to create a Word or PowerPoint document. This is a product that doesn't solve any problems because no one has any interest in AR. And that is Apple's marketing problem. They won't be able to convince anyone that it is a 'needed' product. It is not an iPhone solving a problem with bad smartphones. For $3500, I would rather buy a Mac Studio and a Display and do so much more with it.
The killer tech at CES was the transparent Micro LED TVs. Those demos were incredible.
So you want us to look up the definition of AR, but you can’t be bothered to look up spatial computing? Right.
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/what-is-spatial-computing-a-basic-explainer
https://www.coursera.org/articles/what-is-spatial-computing
https://www.uctoday.com/unified-communications/what-is-spatial-computing-the-basics/
https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/corporate/what-is-spatial-computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_computing
Sorry, this is not some Apple marketing naming ploy to get people interested in something [not] new. Apple has used the term AR for years, there’s no reason they wouldn’t continue to do so if that’s all they were doing and, they actually still do use “AR”, but their headset is more than just an AR headset, it’s a general purpose computing device that has an intereface that exists in an AR environment.
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M3 Ultra Mac Studio rumored to debut in mid-2024 -- without a Mac Pro
TSMC customers that include Apple will increase orders for second generation 3nm process wafers
Not so sure this applies to the M3 Ultra; the next generation 3nm process is not compatible with the first generation, which is why so many other companies have opted to pass on it and wait.
The A18 will make the switch as will the M4.
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Apple's flavor of RCS won't support Google's end-to-end encryption extension
lmasanti said:Maybe… just maybe… Apple convinced GSM to put E2EE into the standard.
Then… Apple will be include RCS in its Ones.
Simple!
Apple can even ‘help’ in the effort.
Apple gave its tech to build Qi2, Matter, the new key standard…
Apple has not adopted RCS for the simple fact that the GSMA group has not developed a standard E2EE for it - they have said so several times. And what the article is alluding to is that Apple is in fact working with them to implement one. Google currently has their own proprietery E2EE extension to RCS that Apple flat out refuses to use, and for good reason. (Apple actually has stated they will not support ANY non-standard extensions to RCS.)
People also need to understand that end-to-end encryption only means that between you and the other user, the message remains encrypted. That does not mean that same message cannot be sent somewhere else unencrypted. Google is a company that thrives on data, forever looking for new data streams to mine. You can be sure, ANYTHING that passes through their E2EE extension will be harvested and mined.
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MacBook Pro 16-inch M3 Max review: Battery-powered Mac Pro power
kellie said:Could AI do a story that identifies the software that can utilize multiple CPU cores to enhance performance? And the software that utilizes single cores/single threading that can’t benefit from multiple cores? All the hype about multi core performance is meaningless if you don’t run software that is written to support multiple threads.
"Multi-core" isn't just about splitting a single task to run across multiple cores there's also a need for smooth multitasking. The more cores you have the more a system can process at the same time; today's operating systems run hundreds of processes and thousands of threads in the background, so those extra cores come in handy.
And I would say that CPUs today are smart enough to know what task can be broken off into its own thread even if the app wasn't specifically designed for it. Even Apple's SoC's can take a task and determine which processor would be best to complete it; CPU, GPU, ANE, ISP, etc.
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Latest 'Scary Fast' leaks double down on M3 iMac and MacBook Pro launches
Apple is not going to release the next iMac with an M2… that SoC is now 16 months old. If they were going to do that, they would’ve done it months ago. The only reason the iMac has not been updated is because they were waiting for the M3. So, I predict we’ll see an M3 iMac, and a larger M3 Pro iMac.
The actual raw power of the CPU cores won’t see a huge increase, but the efficiency of the new 3nm process will allow Apple to pack more cores on the SoC without increasing power draw…
M3; 10 core CPU (6 p-cores + 4 e-cores), 14 core GPU, 12GB RAM
M3 Pro; 14 core CPU (10 p-cores + 4 e-cores), 24 core GPU
“Scary Fast” will be relative to previous M1 iMac… upwards of a 40% increase in performance.
