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Dwarf 3 Smart Telescope review: a compact, iPhone-connected night sky guide
Might be worth mentioning that the DwarfLabs website link states it's just pre-orders they're taking, with 16 - 18 weeks expected before shipping.
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Services buoy slumping iPhone sales in record-breaking holiday quarter earnings
Not clear where you got that number, that had neither a per cent symbol nor a unit after it. iPhone sales revenue declined $600M. While that's notch in terms of the overall sales picture for Apple, it's a fair chunk of change. I mean, would you turn $600M down if someone offered it to you?JFC_PA said:lol. A 0.008608321377331 drop in phone sales revenue is “slumping”?
Good one. More in line with the text itself “marginal”.Buy a better headline writer.
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How to fix weak Wi-Fi on a M4 Mac mini when connected to a drive or dock
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iOS 18.3 arrives with Visual Intelligence update, notification summary changes
I suspect you are right. I guess I have a very valuable iPhone now.M68000 said:
I think you need iPhone 15 pro or newer to run whatever this apple intelligence feature can do. Your phone is not supported.sunman42 said:This is weird. I had Apple Intelligence turned off in Settings -> Apple Intelligence and Siri in iOS 18.2 on my iPhone 14 Pro. Installed the 18.3 update today, and I no longer have an "Apple Intelligence and Siri" in 18.3, only a "Siri" one. Looks like I can't even opt to turn Apple Intelligence on (not that I can imagine doing so).
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Apple's biggest innovation of the last 25 years isn't the iPhone
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Today, Mach+BSD+ObjC/Swift runs on everything. Apple TV, HomePods, and at one point in time, it even ran in a iPhone Lightning video dongle.mpantone said:Apple's greatest innovation in the 21st century is the iPhone. Anyone who thinks otherwise is still living in 2005-2010.
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A development made possible because it was based on (the operating system formerly known as OS X) macOS.
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Even today, you have macOS trailing iOS in features (this is particularly notable in biometric ID, Apple Intelligence feature rollout). Apple even debuted the M4 SoC on a handheld device (iPad Pro) rather than sticking it in first in a MacBook.
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You make it sound like a bad thing that Apple is devoting a proportionate share of its development resources to where most of the money comes from.
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Like clockwork Apple releases new iPhones every fall and lets the high-end Mac Pro fester years and years (where one might expect PC innovation to occur). What has Apple done on the Mac side in recent years? Let's see, they've removed the Touchbar, released a jumbo Mac mini called the Studio, and finally released a long-overdue Mac mini in a smaller form factor thirteen years after they discontinued their last model with a built-in 5.25" optical drive (which was the main reason for the old size).
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Once again, appropriate resources for expected revenues. Care to estimate how much net profit Apple has earned from iPhones vs. Mac Pros, over the lifetimes of both lines? Instead, Apple developed the Mac Studio, a system that, I believe, has sold more units than the Pro ever did — and at the same time, refreshed the hardware of the cheese grater[snip]
Will be interesting to see if they will use Mach+BSD for their custom cellular modem, or use the L4 based OS used in the Secure Enclave.
Cool fact: Richard Rashid and Avie Tevanian co-developed Mach. Rashid went on to lead MS Research and the developments for NT while Tevanian went to NeXT and then Apple after the merger. Tevanian being able to effectively manage software engineering at Apple was one of the key tentpoles that kept Apple alive and enabled them to get iPhone.——Both really good people, but let’s be honest: Microsoft got more significant technology in NT from DEC’s (Open) VMS than they ever added to it themselves.
