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Apple Intelligence wasn't trained on stolen YouTube videos
Apple will ask the user if he wants to effectively jump out to OpenAI in contexts where it will be employed from within iOS. It’s up to the user to engage with OpenAI-generated content. Just like if you are installed the ChatGPT app on your phone. Apple is simply making it more convenient to access ChatGPT and integrate the results into your workflow.jfabula1 said:So there you Go Apple, OpenAI was also accused of using YouTube video w/o permission for training.Apple be using OpenAi?? then Apple will be using stolen AI too. Right?? Just curios
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Apple gets ever closer to a folding iPhone
“ It's possible that Apple is thinking of a foldable display being two regular ones placed on either side of a hinge, ”This has been my notion all along. Here’s what I wrote back before 2019 in the early days of foldable introductions.Appropriate hardware technology would have to be available.First, the display would need to be covered with a non-malleable and scratch-resistant surface; there’s little chance Apple would return to a malleable and markable, plastic display cover. The challenge is that the necessary display properties are, of course, incompatible with folding and are likely to remain so.Next, the phone when folded will need to be as ready to hand, and pocket, as current iPhones, to which any foldable iPhone, in folded configuration, will be ruthlessly compared. The rumor that Apple may bolster battery capacity in the 2019 models could result in thicker iPhones, which would help in a comparison of a future foldable model. Apple would be settting the stage for a thicker handset with a meaningful enhancement to justify it. But it would still be a significant challenge to then add a second screen layer and not significantly increase the thickness. Perhaps a flattened battery on one side of the fold and all the electronics and cameras on the other fold. Not sure if Samsung did that, or if it’s even viable.
Next there’s the reliability aspect. iPhones, and high-end Android phones, are all very solidly constructed these days, with few or no moving parts. But that doesn’t imply even today’s phones are free of physical wear and tear or immune to extreme conditions. Extreme cold or heat will be significant issues to account for in selecting materials and designing folding phones to yield a similar lifespan compared to their non-folding counterparts. For iPhones that implies a five- or six-year lifespan. Not to mention tensile stresses of the folding process itself.
The only viable solution my limited brain can conceive is two separate displays, each pressed up hard against a lip on a hinge to prevent dust or cookie crumbs intruding. As the phone unfolds, at the last part of the arc, that lip recedes, allowing the two screen edges to come together perfectly, leaving not a single pixel width gap between. How incredibly precise would such a mechanism need to be... boggles the mind. But if it worked, every time, for five or six years, it would allow two glass-covered displays to perfectly come together as one, without a visible seam.
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Ad agency zombifies TUAW with AI copy & recycled bylines in stupid SEO play
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Apple Watch Series 9 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch 7-- Specs, price, and features, compared
I originally posted my take on this topic here back in 2015. Nine years later and some are still waiting for Apple to do what I said they won’t do. Let’s see how things play out in the coming years.macgui said:
I disagree. Apple has long sacrificed substance over style on many occasions. The Watch was an exception to their common though not absolute practice.radarthekat said:Had the technology for a digital watch existed right from the start, it would have been absurd to create a round watch body/face, as there simply would have been no imperative to create a form so inefficient to the function of the timepiece.
The rectangular shape is more efficient than a round shape at displaying maximum information. But like any aspect of our lives not everybody needs every possible feature of any given device. Most everyone I know has an Apple Watch. If not it's some feature watch not a smart watch.
Style is an imperative. A round watch comes with some sacrifices that may or may not be important to the wearer. Style and function play different roles to different people based on their preferences. While Apple sticks to the rectangular case a great many of their watch faces are round, and still offer a lot of utility.
Sports cars vs saloons vs trucks, long pants vs shorts, hard top vs convertible, etc. One size doesn't fit all even if Apple says so. The Samsung watches offer a lot of utility in a round shape. A few I've seen are good looking to boot. They just don't offer watchOS so they're a non-starter for me.
A round Watch doesn't have to replace rectangles in a line up. I don't understand why people try to make it an either or situation. If Apple were to design a round Watch the vast majority of Watch fans would very like be surprised at how little would be lost in translation.
Apple should make their lineup thinner than it is now. If they made a round Watch it would sell. They probably won't do it. I have a vague memory of Jobs making negative comments regarding phablets. It's possible he never did. Yet iPhones keep getting bigger and bigger. So change is possible.“While Apple sticks to the rectangular case a great many of their watch faces are round, and still offer a lot of utility.”I use some round watch movement faces on my Apple Watch on occasion, but only because there’s four corners I can add complications into. Those aren’t available on a purely round watch. I’d say that’s significantly more utility than can be offered on a round watch like Samsung’s. It’s double the typical four complications that can be added inside a round watch face. As evidenced here with the watch face I’m currently using.
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Apple Watch Series 9 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch 7-- Specs, price, and features, compared
Had the technology for a digital watch existed right from the start, it would have been absurd to create a round watch body/face, as there simply would have been no imperative to create a form so inefficient to the function of the timepiece. Apple has simply set aside that imperative and determined that the best form is a watch body with straight sides, that simply extend the straight lines of the band around the wrist. It's a more functionally elegant solution to the problem once you free yourself of the need to accommodate circular movements and the circular watch face those impose. Today, traditional round watch faces are a cultural tradition, but culture evolves and so do forms and the fashions that reflect them. Apple will not build round smartwatches, as they are not the appropriate form for the smartwatch paradigm. It's just that simple. The rest are doing so in order to differentiate from Apple and to take advantage of the existing cultural dogma. The future will take care to correct their error.
