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  • Man ludicrously blames Apple for his wife catching him communicating with prostitutes

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    kkqd1337 said:
    I don't understand, I think his complaint to Apple is quite reasonable.

    He deleted a message. The message was not deleted.

    Due to this he incurred significant loss.

    But I agree it is ludicrous to think he will beat Apple's lawyers and T&Cs.
    It’s his cheating that led to significant loss.  

    Two points:

    1. is it significant loss, really?  Was it more than the wife’s fair share of the marital assets?  Should he ever have considered her share to be his?  

    2. What if it were a friend he showed the messages to and who he then extracted a promise to not divulge what he saw.  But then the friend grew a conscience and told the wife.  Could he sue the friend for the entire amount of the divorce settlement?  Seems like the cheating is much more the proximate cause of the divorce versus the particular avenue via which the wife learned of it.  
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  • Apple stock hits new record high after Apple Intelligence reveals

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    Be a judge, not a psychic.  

    I don’t have to predict the future, I just have to own excellent businesses and let the future take care of itself.  That’s the reason half my net worth is in Apple stock (12,000 shares).  
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  • Elon Musk's latest anti-Apple tirade is about a ChatGPT feature that doesn't exist

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    omasou said:
    He’s POed b/c Apple found a way to kneecap X.AI’s monetization model.

    Bet MS/OpenAI pay Apple like Google does for search b/c data sent to ChatGPT 4 will help train their models.
    Data from Apple devices will not be used to train OpenAI’s models.  If it did, then Musk would have a point.  You don’t want queries and supporting information that pertains to you’d business secrets being added to a 3rd-party commercial LLM model.  And so Apple’s deal with OpenAI explicitly excludes that capability. 
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  • Siri is superpowered with Apple Intelligence

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    mpantone said:
    chasm said:
    I thought Siri was also to have better assistance on Music selection?   But MUSIC was a not in the list of Siri improvements...
    As far as I can tell, Siri commands to Apple Music are flawless. I ask it to play a genre of music, it does. I ask it to play a song by artist, it does. I ask it to play one of my playlists, it does. Ask it to play random favourites, and it does.

    The only tricky bit I have to deal with is having Siri play radio stations on other services, such as my old college station which is on TuneIn. You have to VERY SPECIFICALLY say “Siri, play [call letters enunciated] radio on TuneIn.” Then it gets it right.
    Apple Music -- like all streaming music services -- still struggles in handling classical music. Things like works performed by the same artist (e.g., Mozart piano sonata), works with multiple movements, operas that are split into "pieces" that are often just a starting fragment of the first lyrics. Even the dedicated Apple Classical Music service often comes up way short.

    As far as I know, no one who is a serious classical music listener can rely on Siri (or any other assistant) to get the navigation correct here in 2024. Let's hope that Siri with some AI assistance can improve.

    It's worth pointing out that Siri + Apple Intelligence still only recognizes American English. Well, a lot of opera is in languages other than English. So if I -- a native English speaker -- butcher the pronunciation of an opera aria  "Siri, play 'O KonÏg! Das kann ich dir nicht sagen'", it'll be a freakin' miracle if the right song is played. And I have multiple recordings of Tristan und Isolde in my music library. Will it know which one to play?

    I would love to be able to say "Hey Siri, play that Wagner piece when that knight gets stabbed." Not sure we're there yet. I would love when someone will inform me that I am wrong.
    One can imagine, in a world with 2 billion+ active Apple devices (meaning covering the vast common denominator demographic) how low this would be on Apple’s priority list.  Not saying it wouldn’t be nice to cover this capability, but there’s bigger fish to fry in the race to remain relevant among other tech giants competing for customers.
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  • Siri is superpowered with Apple Intelligence

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    The intersection of technology and humanity.  Steve’s vision is on the cusp of becoming reality.  
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