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  • Apple's iOS 19, macOS 16 overhauls aimed at ease of use

    chasmchasm
    Ease of use!? That was the old Apple.

    Tim Cook's over-promising under-delivering Apple will probably add advertisements in the Dock and probably the local search will present sponsored links first as in all the other search boxes. That CEO is so desperate to generate mo' money now that his 'new products' turn out to be failures (like the Car, AI, Vision), but 'service revenue' needs to be pumped up (so far without any tariffs).
    For the record, only you think Apple Intelligence is a failure. The rest of us think it is being rolled out incrementally -- it's behind its rivals, yes, but at least it doesn't seem to hallucinate like some other AI engines routinely do. I'm enjoying the writing tools on the devices I have that support Apple Intelligence.

    As for the Vision Pro, it is by no means a failure. You may find this shocking, but not every product Apple makes is expected or intended to sell in iPhone-like numbers. Apple had no expectations that the Vision Pro would outsell, let's say, the iPad.

    By your standards, all Apple products ever made except the iPhone are "flops." Certainly at the very least, the (relatively) abysmal-selling Mac line should be discontinued immediately, to saying nothing of trinkets like the Apple TV. :lol: 
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  • House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Apple over AI censorship

    chasmchasm
    Poor, poor persecuted Republicans. Even when they run everything, they still can't catch a break from Big Evil. lol
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  • M4 MacBook Air teardown reveals it's just as easy to repair as its predecessor

    chasmchasm
    Well, I'd argue that the performance leaps Apple is seeing with the M4 in particular but each prior generation of the M-series is kind of a continuing "surprise," in that one keeps wondering how much more double-digit increases in various scores are going to keep happening across this decade.

    Apple's emphasis on energy management and cooling systems makes it the CLEAR winner across the entire industry when it comes to notebooks and their battery life. Intel and AMD just can't come close on these fronts.

    Likewise, the M4's incredible single-core performance -- which is what most apps prioritize -- is again well above any rivals. That said, AMD and Intel tend to perform better when you're using apps that need the best multi-core performance, but at a high "price" in terms of energy and battery cost, as well as having to run much hotter.

    I don't have access to any "Ultra" M-series chips nor any need for them myself, but the reading I've done suggests that the M3 Ultra beats the best Intel and AMD have to offer by significant double-digits overall on multi-core. That's really pretty incredible, particularly when you remember that M-chips didn't exist in the market in 2019.

    Hard to imagine what the NEXT five years will bring us. If you'd told me that Apple would someday be the innovation leader in the chip industry a few years back, I'd have laughed.
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  • Foxconn head predicts a surge in US manufacturing in the coming years

    chasmchasm
    dewme said:
    The sky’s the limit … for US manufacturers of industrial automation and process control hardware, software, systems, and services companies. 
    And for big price increases if more manufacturing is done in North America.

    There's a reason why US companies tend to keep the intellectual development and design of consumer products here, and outsource the manufacturing mostly overseas. It's to keep the cost of the products down, and the profit margins up. Changes in the cost of production is always, ALWAYS passed on to the domestic consumer (that is, you and me).

    I actually do, believe it or not, get what the president is TRYING to do with his tariff fever, but it's already backfiring and -- despite some lovely PR releases from companies waving the flag -- will only increase costs on North American consumers. The basic problem with his approach is that you can't just wish up more factories in the US over the course of a year or two -- it will take a couple of decades, and in the meantime YOU will be paying quite a bit for practically everything made outside the US.

    A plan to increase self-reliance on manufacturing will require a carefully-crafted program that is implemented and executed across the next few decades. The rewards will be long-term, not short term -- sadly this requires some short-term sacrifice, patience, and vision between all branches of federal, state, and local government that I don't see as possible anymore without a major societal sea change away from hyper-partisanization.
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  • US lawmakers denounce UK's secretive attack against Apple encryption

    chasmchasm
    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if your intended prosecution against someone relies entirely on breaking encryption for every user everywhere, you are a) a police state and b) have no case.

    It’s shocking to think the UK thought it could just steamroll over everyone’s rights everywhere and grant itself an exclusive license to see anyone in the world’s data on a whim. As a reminder, this demand to bypass all legal protections for all the citizens of the world was made in secret from a secret organization that required that any compliance with these insane demands could not ever be reported to the user, other governments — nobody except itself.

    Frankly the UN should be looking at severe sanctions against the UK, and the US in particular should be regarding it as a hostile action. Everyone involved in this overreach should be fired.
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