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  • Apple plans more AI in iOS, improved Siri in $1B technology push

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    I don't think Apple got caught off guard by AI/ML in general. They've been shipping machine learning models in their software for years now (in somewhat limited areas), and have been developing Silicon specific for it for a number of years. That will give them a big advantage for on-device processing should they choose to go that route. 

    Where I think they did get caught was the popularity of LLM and generative models and how useful and helpful those have been. They definitely under-invested in Siri, which most people would associate as the 'face' of AI within Apple, even if there is a lot more to it than just what Siri does.

    Since Apple won't ship something that they don't believe fully integrates with all their other software and services as it should, I don't see them shipping anything super soon related to Siri unless they've been pulling in other software teams to help.

    And when they do, they won't take the the approach of throwing everything up on a wall to see what sticks. They'll be very calculated to ensure it has a positive benefit for the end user. This is my biggest issue currently. I'm in software, and feel like I follow AI developments pretty closely. I still have yet to see something put together in a way that is actually going to transform the way I work. The closest being Github CoPilot or other coding services.
    Alex1Nroundaboutnowwatto_cobrabyronl

  • Heavy Apple Vision Pro leads Apple to lighten future headsets

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    StrangeDays said:

    It’s like a refined beta product. Apple just wants to get this out to recoup the massive R&D spending in the hopes of figuring out an actual Apple way of solving this in the future. And that in and of itself is not very Apple. Strange times. 

    In a few years, when this becomes a sunglasses form factor, I’ll be interested as will the mass market. Until then, we are looking at a market limited to apple fans with expendable income. It should do better than the microcosm of PC centric VR toys, due to Apple’s fan base, but it won’t approach anywhere near Apple Watch levels of the market. 

    Until the until Apple iSight or whatever comes out, looking forward to the advancement of Macs and Apple Silicon to stir things up. 
    Yeah no, it's not unusual -- AV is already best in class in many aspects, but of course it will get better. Iterative development is how Apple rolls and it's been that way for decades. The original iPhone lacked copy & paste -- copy & paste! The original Mac had a puny black & white screen. You gotta crawl before you can walk or run. If they held off on these products until they had everything everyone wanted, they'd never get released. 

    As for sunglasses form factor -- ain't happening in a few years. Be prepared to wait a long time. 

    https://www.macworld.com/article/205387/apple-rolls.html
    AR vs. VR/MR are just two completely different use cases IMO. All the uses of AVP are either specific to content creation (similar to a Mac or latest iPads) or fully-immersive content consumption (closer to Apple TV than iPhone). 

    A sunglasses form factor will need to be solely AR and be a device for light content consumption - more like iPhone compared to a Mac. You  just can't get the same amount of processing power into the glasses factor, including proper battery life, to package the current functionality of AVP into it. A future AR glasses project will utilize much of the technology of visionOS (pinning content to real world areas with the ability to interact with it) but you can't get the same immersive content experience as you can with AVP completely blocking out external light.

    I think there are reasons to always have both products around.

    mayflywilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • What Android's AirTag tracker app will look like

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    gatorguy said:
    stoneyg said:
    There's a Catch-22 with all these anti-stalking features being more prevalent. They make it easier for thieves to identify when an object has an AirTag hidden in it and now they're more likely to find and destroy the AirTag, which means that the AirTag is less likely to help the original owner find the object that was stolen.
    Were these ever intended to be antitheft devices? I know some people use them for that, but it's not what Apple designed them to be, is it? 
    Does Apple use that as its selling point? No. Is it a reasonable use for finding an item that is lost because it was actually stolen? I think so. But obviously prioritizing people stalking or tracking you is of greater concern.
    watto_cobra

  • What Android's AirTag tracker app will look like

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    There's a Catch-22 with all these anti-stalking features being more prevalent. They make it easier for thieves to identify when an object has an AirTag hidden in it and now they're more likely to find and destroy the AirTag, which means that the AirTag is less likely to help the original owner find the object that was stolen.
    watto_cobracaladanian

  • Five boring apps that Apple shouldn't forget about for the Apple Vision Pro

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    I've heard a lot of talk about how successful Supernatural has been on the Quest for fitness, but that's one area I don't get. Maybe it's the type of exercise that I do, but having a headset strapped to my face doesn't sound ideal.

    For music, having concerts recorded in Apple's new proprietary 3D camera technology (mentioned by John Gruber https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos) would be incredible.
    Alex1NFileMakerFeller