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How the Apple Ring will blow all the other smart ring manufacturers out of the water
Yes it does read like a Vapourware PR piece.twolf2919 said:Not a very convincing article. The author has no evidence that Apple is actually readying a ring. Sure, Apple has been filing patents for ring-like devices for years, but it does that even when it has no current plans for one. It's called research.The author goes on about how the ring has do something better than the existing devices - but never actually gives an example of what that could be. All he manages is examples of a ring assisting other devices in doing an existing function more seamlessly. That's hardly a recipe for assured success. Especially when the tradeoff for getting a slightly enhanced function (e..g . more accurate heart rate monitoring when both Apple Watch and this ring are worn together), is the up-front cost of that ring as well as the continued 'cost' of having to charge yet another device. We don't mind charging our phones every day because it provides us with lots of functionality we otherwise would not have. Same with the Apple Watch. But is the ability to gesture with a ring vs. pushing a button on the watch or phone enough for you to find the time to charge that ring every day (or every n days)? I doubt it.This equation will change only when something like Apple Glass gets released. Unlike the Vision Pro, Glass will be worn all day and its market might be as huge as the iPhone because it'll let you do all the things you do on your iPhone without taking your iPhone out of your pocket. To do that, gestures - e.g. with a ring - will become vital. But it might come bundled with Apple Glass instead of being its own product.
"just wait [x} thing that maybe coming soon is better than [y] thing you can buy now"
not sure that is a game even an Apple spectulation site wants to get in to.
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Apple has reportedly dropped Qualcomm modems on two 2025 iPhones
Is the R1 that chip for now?blastdoor said:
I know that’s what Qualcomm does but I wonder if that will really make sense for Apple, especially given the potential need for more AI processing power. It might make more sense to spend the SOC transistor budget on CPU/GPU/NPU and anything else that benefits from a high bandwidth, low latency connection to RAM. Leave everything else for a separate chip.commentzilla said:Don't be surprised if they eventually integrate it into the SOC.But if they can put it all on one chip and still get decent yields, then I guess sure — why not?
Realtime OS variation to handle the constant data stream, be it sensors or receivers.
It gives them more volume on that chip and eventually will integrate with the A and M series to bring the cost of the VisionPro down by reducing the complexity.
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Apple's Jeff Williams takes another secret overseas trip, this time to China
So if he went a supplier meeting down the road in Silicon Valley would it still count as secretive?
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Party's over: Apple tries to shrink costs of Apple TV+ productions
I like that Apple hasn’t avoided sci-fi like so many others in the industry but maybe big budgets aren’t needed to make it all happen.They could develop a low budget fresh cast and crew show to basically act as a showcase for surfacing interesting things. A twilight zone style show or something
take some risks but with low budgets and say 3 to 4 episodes miniseries they can drop in one per month but really favouring the craft not the names. -
Laurene Powell Jobs pays $70 million to break San Francisco house price record
