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  • How a brazen passcode thief used stolen iPhones to rob $2 million

    hmlongcohmlongco
    I just re-enabled public beta for 17.3 so I could gain access to this feature.
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  • Apple Savings APY increases from 4.15% to 4.25%

    hmlongcohmlongco
    I guess competitive depends on the bank. US Bank, for example, has a standard savings account interest rate of 0.01%.

    You can transfer funds to a "elite money market" savings account that's more restrictive and which offers up to 4.5%... if you have a balance of $25,000 or more.
    mike1davenwilliamlondon

  • Apple isn't behind on AI, it's looking ahead to the future of smartphones

    hmlongcohmlongco
    I use Google quite a bit to lookup facts and figures. But as much as I'd love to have a conversational AI with which I could throw random questions and get answers, I simply don't trust most of today's generative LLMs to give me accurate answers to the questions posed.

    The more conversational the AI, the more like it is to hallucinate and give me answers that seem perfectly accurate... when in fact they're anything but.

    If I were Apple, that's a problem I'd want to solve.
    ihatescreennameswatto_cobraForumPost

  • If you want blue iMessage bubbles that much, buy an iPhone

    hmlongcohmlongco
    RayshardT said:
    The point that Messages is the default and can't be changed is a valid argument for being anticompetitive in the iOS messaging ecosystem because it's makes it such that you can't fully switch to a different messaging app.  A different messaging app that can process SMS/MMS should be able to be the one stop shop for such data but Apple forcing users to use Messages which does nothing to make the SMS/MMS experience better. Even though SMS/MMS is an outdated technology, other apps could provide better user experiences. For example, in Google Messages on Android, emoji reactions on SMS are intercepted and displayed in a more friendly way. Another example would that another SMS/MMS app would inform the user to send a video via link instead of MMS to preserve quality. 
    So how would it help to be able to switch the default messages app that handles SMS/MMS, other than now forcing people who use Messages and who send you messages to use a less secure protocol? At least Apple's upcoming support of RCS will fix some of those security problems.

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  • E3 is dead, and Apple helped kill it

    hmlongcohmlongco
    hammeroftruth said: E3 started dying when Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo decided to stop attending and create their own release events, just like Apple does. 
    That was sort of the entire point of the article, was it not?

    Regardless, Apple used to attend industry trade shows largely so people could experience the Mac and other Apple hardware in person.

    Today, one can simply walk into their local Apple Store. Or Costco, or Target, or Best Buy, or...

    That, coupled with the internet, largely killed off any need to attend "someone else's party".
    csimmonswatto_cobra