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  • RenAIssance: How Apple will drag Siri into the modern era

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    avon b7 said:
    danox said:
    chasm said:
    Maybe I’m the anomaly, but Siri has always worked very well for me for the basic reminder, calendar, weather conditions, currency exchange/math problems, calling, texting, “what song is this” and similar “life organization” tasks I throw at it. The only and only thing that drove me up a wall with Siri was working out the exact wording needed to get it to play my college radio station.

    Finally, I discovered that “Play WPRK 91.5 FM on Tune In” was the magic combination of words that worked every time. If you left out any part of this phrase, it would mysteriously play an unrelated rap track of some kind, which was infuriating!

    So I am in no way suggesting that Siri is somehow secretly better than the other vocal assistants in this area, or that the rest of you must be “using it wrong,” as I have no direct experience with any other vocal assistants. I just know that Siri works pretty well for me most of the time, but my requests are not very far-ranging and random, either.

    That aside, I have noticed in the past few months that Siri is already getting “smarter.” On the rare occasion I need to venture outside of the categories above, I get a lot less “here’s something I found on the web” or some similar non-answer than I did before.

    The other day, I idly asked “what is the chemical composition of steel?” and to my astonishment it gave me the correct one-sentence summary answer.

    So at least SOME “AI” is already at work, and none of my Apple devices are recent, so it’s not just doing this on new items.
    You're not an anomaly, it's just that there exists a very vocal group of negative nellies that rush into every Siri thread to denounce it cuz trolls gotta troll.

    It is the same as saying the iPad doesn't run Mac OS.
    It doesn't. That's why it has a different name and is a completely different beast when compared to a Mac. It is also basically the number one iPad complaint. That it cannot realise its full potential because iPad OS holds it back. 

    That situation has now come front and foremost with the M4. 

    The codebase is irrelevant if in userland functionality isn't available. 
    "That it cannot realise its full potential because iPad OS holds it back." =>  Tha's like saying the Mac Pro can't realize its full potential because of macOS and Apple should make a special version of macOS to take advantage of the Mac Pro's power.  I disagree with this.  Apple never bifurcates their lineup with different operating systems.  One iOS for all iPhones.  One macOS for all Macs.  One iPadOS for all iPads.  And so on.  I'll be very shocked if those changes.  And I'm not of the mindset anymore that iPadOS is holding the iPad Pro back.  What it needs is apps that take advantage of its hardware performance and we starting to see that now with Apple's first party apps and third-party developers.  

    That's not to say that Apple won't add features to iPadOS every year, they will.  But don't expect to see macOS on iPad Pro.
    tht

  • Apple Vision Pro 2 may be half the price of the original claims sketchy rumor

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    discountopinion said:
    Nah this rumour is hogwash.

    When AV Pro 2 comes out in 2025/26 it is likely having M5 or M6. M4 was a giant leap from M2, so likely AVP2 will have some serious horsepower to bring to the table and likely by then widely established on device GenAI models in iOS and VisionOS.

    Question is what this will enable us to do. Maybe the UI can start predicting intent?



     
    On a side note, it wouldn't surprise me if Apple gave the VP a processor update to M4 between now and the Vision Pro 2 release.
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  • RenAIssance: How Apple will drag Siri into the modern era

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    mikethemartian said:
    Siri Pro. 
    Knowing Apple, they'll charge a subscription fee.
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  • Apple apologizes for iPad Pro 'Crush' ad after massive backlash

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    This is a great ad that conveys exactly what it's supposed to.  Apple is silly and weak to apologize for this ad.  So much for courage.  The Twitter mob making an unnecessary big deal over this ad need to get a life.
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  • iPhone demand is falling, claims component supplier Skyworks

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    Wolflow said:
    Apple's most recent iPhone innovation, switch from fingerprint with home button to face-id, is a lot of years ago already.
    As long there's nothing new, a camera with some more pixels aside, there's no reason to get a new phone as long as it's working

    There's always the new AI features.
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