sunman42

M68000 said:

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).

I think you need iPhone 15 pro or newer to run whatever this apple intelligence feature can do.   Your phone is not supported.

tht said:

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 

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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.

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.

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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.

DAalseth said:

They’re called bribes. 
Trump must have gotten $10-$20 mil by now. The inauguration will cost a couple, the rest will go in his pocket. Simple as that. He did the same thing for his first inauguration. 

quakerotis said:

blastdoor said:

My personal grading of EU decisions involving Apple:

Apple Music $2 billion: F
USBC: D
App Store: C
Ireland: A

Apple Music $2 billion: A
USBC: A+
App Store: A
Ireland: F

CloudTalkin said:

rob53 said:

I have to laugh about the ad revenue generated from Safari search result advertising. Raise your hand if you AREN'T using some kind of advertisement blocking on Safari. Wait, I'm not seeing any hands so at least the commenters on this forum aren't bothered by Google's (and other's) advertising. Apple knows this and they got $20B along with 36% of ad revenue. I use DuckDuckGo and there's very little advertising except for those ads buried in websites that aren't from Google. 

Why laugh? I'm pretty sure you, me, and most people on tech forums are in an extreme minority.  Most people simply don't care. People tend to want what they want and if its free, all the better it seems.  Evidence of that can be found in App Store metrics.  The top downloads are littered with Google and Facebook apps. 

Apple has no desire to drop Google because they make a crap ton of ad revenue and don't have to do any work.  They simply offer up their users and collect the check.  For those suggesting Apple use DDG... when DDG can stroke checks like Google they might become an option.  'Til then...