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If you want to buy the 2022 iPhone SE, do it now
You don’t know the situation of everybody else in the world. I personally am not interested, but others may be.Afarstar said:Who on earth would buy a 2022 model SE?I appreciate a notification like this from AppleInsider.
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Apple reaffirms privacy as a tentpole feature in Siri after lawsuit settlement
What evidence did the plaintiffs present?
Answer: Circumstantial suspicions. No evidence whatsoever.Why did the judge initially throw out the case?Answer: Because it had no merit.
Privacy is a cornerstone of Apple‘s business. There is no amount of information selling that could make compromising the privacy of its users worthwhile. This is a ridiculous lawsuit.
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Numbers, Pages, and Keynote gain Apple Intelligence smarts
This American engineer and manager brought his Mac into the office over a decade ago to escape the hell that is Microsoft and never looked back.sidrictheviking said:
Greetings from Mongolian Antarctica!Pema said:That's brilliant. Now we need to round up roster of users from Antartica and Upper Mongolia who actually use the Apple equivalent of Office. In my entire time in IT and as a Uni Phd student I have yet to see anyone using other than Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
As a regular (and long-time) user of both Pages and Keynote I’m surprised to read your post. I’ve used Word and PowerPoint over the decades but moved to Pages and Keynote exclusively many years ago. Bring free certainly helped. However, the main reason is ease of use. I work almost exclusively from an iPad and find Keynote, in particular, to be intuitive and very user friendly. When I need to work with Office documents I simply import them into the Apple equivalent and work with them there. When necessary, I export them back to their Office versions and it’s a painless exercise.Sadly, as I live in the EU (Ireland), I won’t have access to these new feature until April. I am very much looking forward to using Image Playground for Keynote, as I regularly spend far too long finding appropriate images for my presentations. From what I’ve seen so far, I should be able to create suitable ones in seconds for each slide. I don’t need photorealistic, just clear and relevant.ߘ箰☘️I, too, convert every Microsoft document to a Pages, Numbers, or Keynote file and move on from there.The only time I use Excel is when I need to use VBA. VBA is disappointingly underpowered, however, because much to my dismay it uses only one processor core.I am impressed every day by the fundamental superiority in user interface that Numbers offers its users. Instead of being confined to a single vast grid of cells, I can have multiple tables each of a different configuration doing exactly what I want and feeding information to one another. I can place visual elements like graphs, charts, and pointers anywhere I want and anywhere it’s appropriate. It’s really beautiful to use. It has helped my creativity immensely. When I use Excel now, I feel constrained and unable to think. I strongly recommend for 99% of what you do, you try Numbers. You will be enlightened. -
Past, Present, Future: The state of Apple Intelligence in December 2024
I think Apple will make Apple Intelligence a truly useful personal assistance in stark contrast to the hallucinating garbage that is pretty much all the rest of AI available right now. -
Apple Intelligence has been seven years in the making, says Cook
I use Siri all the time now because it provides instant answers. That’s a big leap from the era when all it would do is take you to the appropriate website.
it it’s also fantastic for language translations. All I have to do is say for instance, “how do you say in French…”
