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Wonderful and Apple is getting it right! Enable the user to choose which AI engine to hand off more complex things to that Siri cannot internally handle is the right move and also simplifies the international approach.

Grok3, Claude, Mistral etc would also be good to add.

C1 is not suitable for high end phones like previous posters have highlighted. C2 will likely be MVP for high end line.

Personally I think this is the beginning of a beautiful evolution and progressive synergy between the different features in the iPhone. Maybe the modem will progressively share compute with the rest of the SoC over time?

Similar to how another poster earlier said - connectivity everywhere and battery life is all what it is about. Mobile network providers are struggling with investment burden of modernizing the networks with ever shortening generational cycles of tech. Dont care if 8Gbps in the phone if no coverage.

I do think that Apple should buddy up closer to Starlink as GlobalStar is dead on arrival in comparison.

I am a super happy customer of AirPods Pro 1 and 2. Absolutely amazing product and for someone who does a lot of flying it is a total game changer.

i will buy air pods pro 3 on the day of release sight unseen. The product is just that good.

i think the article is on the right path with the medical features. Fits well with apples strategy and will be very useful.

please keep the stems; the design is lovely

Be still my heart but honestly Mac Studio is still on M2 Ultra so would not Apple be better off rolling out scaled socs for the high margin devices?

Perhaps they are skipping generations due to observ d ai related market trends

henryblackman said:

What a dreadfully uninformed, foolish, and biased point of view - clearly anti-government. Uk.gov is the envy of the world, with the UK having an amazingly well designed, accessible, digital presence for all of its citizens across almost all services. Uk.gov is apolitical, as most of the government outside of the USA is, not being subject to the whims of elected fools. I’d also like to point out that the USA is not leading here, although a handful of states do use the platform. 

The government is launching a digital driving license, but is also creating a platform for a digital passport, and other digital ID that citizens hold. Documents that Apple and Google do not support. They have also NOT said the digital driving license would not be compatible with Apple and Google’s platforms either at launch or later. 

Having being involved with Apple’s digital student ID initiatives I know that they do not make supporting their platform easy, have ridiculous requirements that are hard to meet, and charge for the privilege. The author has also missed that driving licenses are very different in the UK, they are not expected to be carried whilst driving, or available on demand to police if you are stopped, nor are they as easy to obtain as they are in the USA, so expectations are quite different. 

As to the comments regarding the UK’s robust covid response, and Covid app. Given this was under development prior to Apple and Google’s joint development, I don’t see how this authors narrative is accurate. Where is the evidence that the UK government wanted to sell citizens data? It does not, as a matter of law, have the ability to do so. Did it want more data that the Apple/Google platform provide? Yes, and why not? The UK government, like so many others - and let’s remember who was President during the pandemic in the USA - does not exist to do anything but serve its citizens. 

For citizens of the USA reading this, or anything else, please understand that UK politicians like politicians of other European countries, do not typically set out  to enrich themselves as a primary outcome, nor hold outrageous beliefs that they wish to impose on citizens. They are public servants, and whilst there are, unfortunately some bad eggs, generally those who benefit from exported USA political rhetoric which simply does not apply overseas. 

So all in all, kindly bugger off, because you have no idea what you are talking about. 

While I agree the article was poorly written I would challenge the notion that Uk.gov is the envy of the world. Such chest thumping is similar to comments like "the NHS is the envy of the world".. hint it is not.

UK Govt digital services remain trailing behind the curve of many nations and territories, but has improved over time playing catch up. The difference is that some nations have had digital identities in widespread use for decades leading to generations that know of nothing else.

Now back on topic - could the UK digital ID solution also use the proprietary wallets of Apple, Google and others? Why yes of course. The UK Covid app already integrated with them while still keeping in-app documents as well. The key here is choice.