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  • Apple denies spying on Russia for the US

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    After this gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-ipad-privacy-problems-data-gathering-1849855092/slides/8 can Apple be trusted with any representation of privacy ... ?

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  • Rumored Mac Studio trade-in points to possible refresh during WWDC

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    ... can anyone comment on the veracity of these benchmarks in real use terms ...?

    browser.geekbench.com/metal-benchmarks


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  • Google doubles down on its 'AI' future during I/O, hitting the buzzword over 100 times

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    "for Apple users with a privacy angle"  Has Apple become limited to 'angles'...?

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
    As Zuboff asks once one slides down the rabbit hole can there be any retreat to meaningful purpose or relationship with customers...?
    Do critics who have not dutifully considered Zuboff's highly researched and documented tome have any credibility in reply...?

    Has Apple under Mr. Cook bet the farm, and yet (as identified early in the book) has a truly meaningful and positive alternative that 'even Apple may not have recognized' been missed...?
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  • People are now holding on to old iPhones as long as they did pre-COVID

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    kmarei said:
    i still use an iphone X, replaced the battery and works great
    i don't need 15 cameras on the back, if i was a professional photographer, i would not be using a phone to take pictures :)
    other than cameras, there isn't realy anything that makes me want to upgrade
    i setup iphones at work and i have used the 12,  13, and 14
    yeah they are a little faster, but worthy of $1000?
    heck no

    In recent testing I got better (sharper) UWA image quality with a Zeiss Exolens on an iPhone 7 / SE than an iPhone 14 Pro and would have been happy to keep my 7 if Apple had not stopped supporting it... That would have seemed the more environmentally benign option as well...

    Given what I understand must be the challenges of making such an ultra compact UWA I ask if Apple might be better to increase the effective focal length (reduce the wide angle) if it improves the image resolution? I could see the softness even on the iPhone display so hard for me to consider it of 'pro' caliber...  Video cropping was also an issue for me...
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  • Internal fighting and privacy concerns hinder Apple's ability to modernize Siri

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    riverko said:
    Maybe i see it from a very simple and uninformed point of view. But couldn’t Apple give users a choice? Choose on device Siri for more privacy but with less features or cloud based Siri that can handle more things?
    ...agreed, unlike the macOS voice dictation that was quietly changed from onboard to Apple server for US ...
    machow2.com/dictate-offline-catalina
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