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Craig Federighi is on a mission to let you move work across all of your devices, instantly...
Apple issued a similar patent in the early days of the iPad, which, according to the patent description, would allow Mac apps to relay and interface to an iPad-like device.
Now, it never really happened like that; indeed, it really was the first edition of watch Apps that were hosted by the phone, but the interface was run by the watch as an app extension.
Still, it seemed like a great idea to expand. Why bring the whole app onlineon each device when all you need in the example is only a small part of it? Why couldn't drafting an email be a super-lightweight app extension that jumps between devices with ease?
Would help the CPU/GPU multi-task the app if if was divided to task interfaces.
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Apple's next big thing could be a home robot
What do you mean the CyberTruck can't scale?charlesn said:
Focused? Oh, you mean like Tesla and its Cybertruck? A project with no sizable pool of potential buyers and no easy way to scale that should have been abandoned, but no... Testa stayed "focused" on bringing it to market no matter what, like some dog chewing on a bone it knows is poisoned... but instead of dropping it, stays "focused" on chewing some more. And if you're thinking this poisoned bone simile is a little over the top, here's what Elon had to say about Cybertruck: "We dug our own grave with it." If Apple made a mistake with the car, it's that it stayed focused on it for too long and probably should have shut it down earlier--but since Tim cancelled his weekly meetings with me, I can't say that I know that for a fact. But with a slew of heavyweight competitors in the EV business now and EV sales starting to slow significantly, this was a still a good time to abandon Project Titan.Massiveattack87 said:I bet this will end up like the Apple car.
Apple just throwing stuff out there and seeing what sticks lol.
Apple does not seem to be focused. Ring, the apple car, robots now.. When can we expect real things?
If you're waiting on "real things" to appear, I suggest you book yourself a demo of Vision Pro at your local Apple Store. Nothing much "new" or "real" to see there other than the most radical and innovative advance in personal computing since the invention of the GUI. And if you're wondering what the hell to do with it, maybe read stories here on AI about how hospitals are already putting this v1.0 product that has been out for all of TWO months to good use in operating rooms. But yeah, Apple's just sitting on its butt.
They could scale it down and make a city bus.
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Google could charge Apple users for AI tools in iOS 18
Apple could create a standardised interface for similar AI systems. On the App side, developers wouldn't need to know which one the user has an account for; they wouldn't need to pick a "winner" to be associated with and possibly force the user into another account to leverage the function.Massiveattack87 said:I hope Tim Cook does not present a pay-service for the generative AI powered by Gemini.
It is not what I would call "breakthrough".
A lot of people who are familiar with the generative AI know that Gemini is quite controversal.
Many prefer Perplexity, Chat-GPT, Claude 3 over Gemini (Of course, there are still a lot of divided opinions on that).
I think this will be a massive drop if Apple really plans to launch Gemini for iOS18.
Tim is cooking Apple for sure.
Users can pick a preferred system if they have one. Developers could nominate a preferred but still allow user choice*. AI providers can still develop in earnest, knowing that if they make a break from the pack with improvements, they might only need one system setting to gain a whole stack of paying customers.
In this mix, Apple could offer their own AI trained purely on licensed sources as a baseline works out-of-the-box experience. This could be an on-device system and hand-wave any shortcomings against other options by up-selling privacy or convenience aspects of being on-device and not dependent on internet connections.
*given user choice is a big thing and Apple have had reasons to build out systems to allow more user choice into the OS so why not launch this system on the back of that. Let them slide the web-rendering engine or photo library toogles into the system under the radar at the same time.
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Future Apple devices may precisely track your gestures using radar
So strange to think Apple have come full circle and now a desirable formfactor for the Mac is something that looks like a modern C64 or other 80's home computers.
This time, it's just a keyboard over a "thicken" case. There is no mouse this time, as the lidar/radar sensors in the board can see fingers, styluses, or any pointer. Some extra smarts in the optional pencil make the input pressure sensitive for writing and drawing in front of the device.
Why even have switches in the keys? The movement of the keys would only be there for comfort while typing, as the sensors would see the impact before the switch registers. So all the swipe gestures of the iOS keyboard now just work as well.
Team the device with any airplay device for the screen, VisionPro, smart TVs, smart monitors and IPads all work out of box. Take it with you
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Apple AI research: ReALM is smaller, faster than GPT-4 when parsing contextual data
Also, Images are increasingly tagged with ALT text as search engines favour sites that put work into being accessible. Apple has already put a lot of effort into Accessibility features to allow screen readers to do the same with Apps on their devices, giving them a wealth of text data at any time on the device to use for this. I guess this means they can "normalise" or even anonymise a query using on-device smarts and then feed it off to other AI systems on-line.coolfactor said:Makes sense since text is already being extracted from images displayed on-screen.
