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  • Apple's big WWDC 2024 announcement may be an AI App Store

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    I doubt that WWDC24 will dominate its focus on an "AI App Store". Sure, I can see how that ties into a developer conference, and I can see how a separate storefront would break up operations, to appear "less big" to the forces that be, but let's see some awesome hardware and software that makes ... particularly the Mac... better again.
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  • Apple's big WWDC 2024 announcement may be an AI App Store

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    gwmac said:
    I'm confused why anyone would need any specialized AI apps. What I mean is by that is currently ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are the dominant players. All 3 offer free or paid premium versions. There are tons of specialized paid apps that use one of those 3 as their backbone so to speak, but they are all useless leeches.

    Why use specialized apps when you can easily just do the task easily with ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude alone? Sure it takes a little training and learning to become an expert user, but we can now create and save our own specialized AI bots within ChatGPT which means those apps are becoming less relevant by the day.

    I'm confused about your confusion. Are you suggesting that there's no need for any other players in the [Generative] AI market?

    Should we notify the 95% of fast food industry that they are irrelevant because McDonald's, Burger King and Dairy Queen already exist?

    Competition should be encouraged, not discouraged.

    byronlmuthuk_vanalingampsliceAlex1N

  • How to turn off Apple's Journal 'Discoverable by Others' setting that's enabled by default...

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    I have no qualms with the way that this feature works. Seems to be anonymous and private, but using anonymized "crowd-sourced" data to help you use the app.

    But at least there should be a prompt when the app is first opened to alert the user to this feature, giving them the option to opt-out?

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  • Apple will crush the DoJ in court if Garland sticks with outdated arguments

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    nubus said:
    Apple can't win. Microsoft spent 8 years on US antitrust cases before making a settlement. Gates left the company he founded and Microsoft management lost focus.

    Apple+EU has been a disaster for years. Apple spent 10 years on promising before finally being forced to USB-C. Now EU has had enough with politicians hitting Apple in several ways causing disruptions to hardware and software. Apple is taking a beating every week.

    And now this... a case started under Trump that moved forward for 5-6 years. At a time when Car just failed, AVP is in need of full focus, competitors are all AI, and the last 4 iPhone generations are looking and behaving much like iPhone 12 (design, MagSafe, 5G)...   a legal battle into the next decade is not what the doctor ordered.

    We need Apple to get out of these battles and focus on the future.

    Apple never promised USB-C for 10 years. What nonsense it that?

    It was smart of Apple to finally move to USB-C — yes — but they were in their full rights not to until being forced. We all wish they voluntarily did so a few years earlier.

    The Car project never failed. So much would have been learned from it and applied to other projects. Heck, much of Vision Pro's "sight" tech was likely rooted in work done on car vision tech. The Car project also facilitated the "new CarPlay experience" that is being installed on many other brands. So what if Apple isn't going to build their own car... they are a software company, too, and the Car project helped the software evolve tremendously in ways we haven't seen yet. Not a failure.
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  • Apple will crush the DoJ in court if Garland sticks with outdated arguments

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    @AppleInsider ;

    It's absolutely critical to get facts straight when offering up an analysis.
    We await the DoJ suit against the carriers for allowing SMS to persist.

    SMS is _not_ going away with RCS. SMS is not the problem with low-quality photos and videos. Your comment should have mentioned "MMS" not "SMS".

    RCS will (optionally) fallback to SMS much like iMessage does — when data is not available.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra