charlesn

Stop by any Sunday at the giant flea market in the parking lot of MetLife Stadium (home to the football Giants and Jets) in NJ and you'll find stacks of Apple products on vendor tables, selling "new in box" for under $50. The boxes are near indistinguishable from legit Apple merchandise, but you can bet the $50 AirPods Max will not be the same. What's remarkable is that this counterfeit merchandise is ALWAYS there and no authorities attempt to stop it, even though one bust where everything is seized would halt it (at least at this site) immediately. 

Not an Adobe fan, but cannot wait to try this. At least to my eye, there was a certain point in iPhone photography where all of the whiz-bang computational blah-blah to give us "perfect" photos stopped looking like what my eye was seeing. There was just something off, and all that processing yielded what became known as the "iPhone-y" look. (For all I know, the same has happened with Android phones, but I've never used Android.) I'm very curious to start shooting scenes with/without this Adobe app and see how they compare. That this app even exists tells you that the issue with the iPhone-y look is a real thing for a sizable number of people. 

sconosciuto said:

leehericks said:

Isn’t the point of buying stock that you take a risk on supporting the company? How can you sue them?

FWIW I had a very strong sense that Apple was spinning hard about their AI efforts judging by the language they used at the WWDC (2024 I think?) where they made a lot of big AI announcements. It had a strong flavor of "concepts of a plan."

By the time of WWDC '24, have no doubt that Apple saw AI as the potential "next big thing" to drive an upgrade super cycle. And I have no doubt that Apple was caught with its pants down in terms of how ready it was to deliver on AI. So its genius marketing dept--and I respect it as that, 100%--got to work and appropriated the very initials A.I. to mean Apple Intelligence. That's what I mean about genius. And Apple sold the crap out of that phrase at WWDC '24. But when you looked at the Apple Intelligence features roadmap they laid out for the next year, "modest" would be an understatement. It began with iPhone 16 shipping with no AI features until an update in late October provided what amounted to an amuse bouche of Apple Intelligence, and then the roadmap didn't call for anything of great significance until the revamped AI Siri, with its contextually aware features, was slated to launch in the spring. I mention all this because there was a huge gulf between how heavily Apple leaned on the phrase "Apple Intelligence" and the actual features they said they would provide over the next year. And Apple delivered on the features it promised, modest as they were, until we get to AI Siri. 

It's at this point that we come to the big fork in the road where you can believe one of two things about AI Siri

1) It was a real product in development for which the challenges to bring it to fruition were wildly underestimated, leading to the debacle of non-delivery and no firm date set, even now, for when it will be delivered, OR...

2) You can believe that the braintrust at Apple: Cook, Federighi, Cue and Joswiak--who collectively have been working at Apple for 121 YEARS, with all four of them having worked under Jobs--got together one day and decided to go rogue and do something that has never been done at Apple: put the company's reputation with its customers and the public at risk by lying about and faking a demo of a product they knew they didn't have and wasn't even in development. 

Listen: you can believe what you want to believe but why would you choose #2? Why would you not give Apple leadership that has been with the company for nearly one and quarter centuries the benefit of the doubt when they've never done anything like that before? Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal just did a very extensive and tough interview with Federighi and Joswiak at WWDC '25 and asked them point blank if the "new Siri," especially the contextually aware features they demo'd last year, was just vaporware that didn't exist at the time. They both said it did exist and was functional, but unreliable, with problems they thought they could solve by end of March '25, but couldn't. 

I'm not minimizing what a black eye this is for Apple's software engineering team, and the company deserves harsh blowback for not just missing its delivery date, but being so in the weeds on this that the best it can promise for a delivery date is by the end of 2026. But there is just no precedent in the long history of these execs with Apple to justify belief that this was the result of planned and intentional dishonesty.

ssfe11 said:

Ridiculous lawsuit from clueless greedy ambulance chasing lawyers. How do these guys live with themselves? Have a great weekend. 

Exactly. Over 40% of Apple is owned by the top 25 shareholders. Think any of them joined this stupid suit? I honestly don't understand the ambulance chasers: Apple's not going to hand them a penny to"settle out of court," and they have 0% chance of winning at trial. So the potential upside is what?

Once again, this speaks to the degree of contempt and assumption of idiocy that Trump, Inc has for his lobotomized followers. I have no doubt that everyone connected with this phone surely knew that it would take about a nanosecond to reveal that it is not "made in America." And they don't care. They know that facts just bounce off the MAGA force field that keeps truth and reality from ever penetrating. Just like Trump continues to peddle his $TRUMP meme coin, undeterred by facts showing that 50-odd people made a fortune, while hundreds of thousands have lost money. I'm sure some tech sleazebag just put projections in front of Trump showing how much he'd make just by licensing his name to this latest scam--not just on the hardware, I'm sure he gets his cut of the monthly phone bills, too--and he signed immediately, confident the MAGA brain dead would sign up, too.