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  • Apple execs explain Apple's position in the AI race & how it isn't necessarily 'behind'

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    Wesley_Hilliard said:
    ihatescreennames said:

    Joz even scoffed at the idea of it being "demo ware," in what seemed to be a pointed comment at Daring Fireball's John Gruber.

    Sure, now that it’s a year later. We still aren’t seeing the semantic index stuff that was touted at WWDC 2024. What is Joz scoffing at?
    At the suggestion that what was shown during WWDC 2024 was faked or not actually running.
    I understand, I’m just saying that it has been a year since the event where many things that were shown still haven’t been seen (by anyone outside of Apple), and yet he scoffs at the notion they don’t exist. Seems silly to me. I’m happy he seems confident in Apple’s ability to deliver the still missing features, but he shouldn’t be scoffing. 

    Side note: there is a lot of speculation that Apple snubbed Gruber over the Something is Rotten article, but I’d also point out that Gruber has made many posts specifically calling out Tim Cook for donating to Trump’s inauguration and seeming to be generally supportive of Trump. Gruber’s comments on that subject frequently use terms like “bootlicker” and it’s certainly possible that it’s those comments, made over and over about Tim Cook that he has been snubbed over. 
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  • Apple forcefully refutes UK's claims about mobile browsing

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    This could be a significant milestone in the UK, following the EU’s lead in permitting porn apps to be installed. 

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  • Ex-Apple engineer admits 'expensive mistake' after leak lawsuit is dismissed

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    Xed said:
    Does anyone here use or know anyone that uses the Journal app?

    I have nothing bad to say about the app — because I've never used it — but it's not app that seems to get any mention in my circles.
    I use it. Not every day but very often. I’m not particularly prolific but there are times when I like to enter a summary of the day’s events, maybe with some photos/videos or maps or workout results. I like it. 

    I’m pretty sure that AI’s Wesley Hilliard said he tries to get 1000 words per day into the Journal app. So there are at least two of us using it!
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  • iOS 18.3 arrives with Visual Intelligence update, notification summary changes

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    M68000 said:
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    sunman42 said:
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    sunman42 said:
    This is weird. I had Apple Intelligence turned off in Settings -> Apple Intelligence and Siri in iOS 18.2 on my iPhone 14 Pro. Installed the 18.3 update today, and I no longer have an "Apple Intelligence and Siri" in 18.3, only a "Siri" one. Looks like I can't even opt to turn Apple Intelligence on (not that I can imagine doing so).
    I think you need iPhone 15 pro or newer to run whatever this apple intelligence feature can do.   Your phone is not supported.
    I suspect you are right. I guess I have a very valuable iPhone now.
    Or your posts are just BS since in the first one you said you had previously had Apple Intelligence turned off and mentioned where in Settings you had turned it off but now it turns out your phone never supported Apple Intelligence in the first place. Oops, your trolling efforts have fallen flat. 
    I thought about that but did not say anything to be polite.
    I get that, and it was nice of you. I also think sometimes people need to be called out and to me this was one of those times. 
    DAalseth said:
    Some bits of good news:
    If you disable Apple Intelligence it removes the cruft it put in there that’s now unneeded. I updated my iPad and Mac and had nearly no net loss of drive space by disabling it.
    https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/save-up-to-21gb-storage-disable-apple-intelligence/
    Secondly it can’t run if your system’s language and Siri’s language don’t match. My Mac, actually all of my devices, are set up for English (Canadian), but I run Siri on English (Irish). In every case it disabled Apple Intelligence and gave me a note that they had to match. 

    So when I updated each system yesterday I did the update, rebooted, switched Siri to English (Canadian), disabled Apple Intelligence, Switched Siri back to English (Irish). I had no noticeable loss in storage space, and Apple Intelligence cannot get enabled even accidentally. 
    I know you dislike all this AI stuff (I’ve seen enough of your posts saying as much!) and you don’t want it enabled. I wasn’t sure if I would be using anything outside of the photo cleanup. However, I have found other uses that, for me, are handy. 

    Here’s an example, we’ve been dealing with a bunch of issues regarding my in-laws for a few months, to the point where it’s been consuming most of what used to be our free time. Here’s what has happened a few times. My wife will call me on her commute with a bunch of thoughts that need to be communicated to my in-laws (who are elderly). I record the call and let my wife do her stream of consciousness thing. The recording creates a transcript that I copy and drop into Notes. Then I have Writing Tools rewrite her stream into something more concise. At first I used Professional and that matched the way I would like it. My wife rejected that, thought it wasn’t soft enough, so I had WT redo but using Friendly. That was approved. 

    I’m not a writer, like I believe you are, so this saves me a lot of time and effort. From the time we finish the call to the time I have a nice, friendly message to send to them is just a minute or so. I’m really happy with the Apple Intelligence features so far. 
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  • Apple News Live Activities for tracking election results now live on iPhone

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    If it helps, I opened Apple News just now and this popped up. I didn’t have to search for anything, it appeared on my first time opening News for the day  
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