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I’m looking forward to this. I use the camera shortcut quite often (though swiping left is easy enough) but I rarely use the flashlight shortcut from the lock screen so I’ll be jettisoning that one, likely for a Shortcut that runs some home automation.

bobolicious said:

"Users have ultimate control."

Do all roads still lead to iCloud and Apple servers ?

Huh? All roads don’t lead to iCloud or Apple servers. You can turn iCloud off. It’s also possible to use some other service. If you don’t want to sync photos to iCloud, use Google or something else. Same goes for your contacts and calendar and passwords, etc. Nothing is stopping you from that.

Will ChatGP ultimately end up being 'Sherlocked'...?

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find that Apple is working on their own solution with the intention of no longer needing to use ChatGPT or some other third-party. 

dee_dee said:

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rob53 said:

I have very serious issues with the dictatorship called the EU. 

The fact that a democratically elected government is "dictating" rules that all businesses — even foreign ones — need to follow (we call them "laws") does not make them a "dictatorship". 

You'd just rather not have to follow the law. 

Apple doesn't just follow the law, they follow the spirit of the law. 

In this case, they're absolutely not following the spirit of the law. 

They're complying with the letter, but adding extra levies to ensure that following the law makes effectively no difference. 

That's the opposite of "following the spirit of the law", and it didn't fly with the EU commission. 

This is the problem - they let all the big tech companies implement the changes on their own because the EU is full of bureaucrats that don’t understand technology.  If they don’t like Apple’s interpretation of the law then they should have been more specific in what they wanted.    

The DMA can’t be more specific without looking really bad as it appears the spirit is to deprive big tech companies from charging for their IP or their service.

Look at Meta’s predicament. In the EU Meta offered a Facebook tier for free that tracked users and offered targeted advertising (where Meta earns money). They also offered a paid tier that didn’t track and offered non-targeted advertising (where Meta earns significantly less).

According to Vestager she would love to have a Facebook she could pay for with no tracking (https://www.euractiv.com/section/competition/interview/vestager-id-like-a-facebook-that-i-pay-with-full-privacy/) but I guess that stance has changed. Now the EC wants a third tier on Facebook that would be free but also not have tracking or targeted ads. In other words, an option where Facebook/Meta provide their service but earn no money.

AppleInsider said:

But, regardless of that wait list, we're not going to get it on our HomePods in 2024. And, probably not on the existing devices in the family at all. 

If you have a HomePod -- or multiple -- they won't have the benefits of Apple Intelligence or the updated Siri. That extends to other devices, too, like your Apple Watch or any unsupported Macs or iPhones.

Is that confirmed or is it possible HomePods will handoff queries to our iPhones like they already sometimes do. For instance, asking a HomePod where somebody is will use Find My on my iPhone to actually get the info from and then it will tell me. Maybe Apple Intelligence will work similarly with a HomePod?

eightzero said:

I do get how the cycle tracking could be valuable to certain individuals. OT here, but I cringe a bit when this comes up in Apple Events, as I immediately wonder what Apple will do when they receive valid subpoenas for this data from a state prosecutor enforcing a suspected violation of...well...you know....

I’m not positive but I believe your Health info is end-to-end encrypted and Apple can’t provide access to it (or maybe only with your permission?).