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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

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    beowulfschmidt said:

    Requiring a company not owned by the government to do business as the government demands is a hallmark of fascism.  Benito would be proud.

    Or the hallmark of one protecting its citizenry. The government demands fair treatment and wages for the company's employees. The government demands the company not utilize child labor. They demand that said company doesn't pollute the air we breath and the water we drink.

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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

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    jmaximus said:
    Why does Apple assume they have monopoly on security? It is a rather faulty assumption that none else can make a secure or even more secure App Store. 

    DMA will overrule this and allow fair competition on the platform. 
    Expanding the attack surface is expanding the attack surface and spreading PII and card information to multiple sources.

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  • Looks like YouTube will make an Apple Vision Pro app after all

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    roundaboutnow said:
    Given the volume of AVP sales so far, I get not wanting to produce a native AVP app right away, but considering Youtube (and Netflix) can be used in AVP Safari, it seemed strange to me that both those companies didn't at least allow the iPad app to run out of the gate.

    Speaking of Youtube, I've looked at a few of the AVP reviews there (in particular Marques Brownlee), and I have to say I am way more impressed with AVP than I thought I'd be. (What really helps is the fact that one can screen record the AVP visuals, so you get a pretty good idea of what the wearer sees).
    One thing to remember what watching those screen recordings is that AVP foveates the display, spending extra cycles to make sure the area of the screen you're looking at is razor sharp and such, not spending extra cycles on the parts of the screen you're NOT looking at.

    So some screenshots and recordings can look blurry, unless you're looking at the same area where the wearer was looking.
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  • Apple isn't behind on AI, it's looking ahead to the future of smartphones

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    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.
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  • Apple releases tvOS 17.2 with 3D movies and better system navigation

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    I had a bunch of movies and shows in wishlists. All gone.

    Apple continues to make their TV apps dumber. I have quite a few movies and shows, and would love to be able to filter watched and unwatched shows, sort the lists, reorganize things, change categories (why is one movie in a series in Action and the next in Sci-Fi)? 

    All this consolidation has done is give you fewer options. Fine if you own six films. Terrible if you have hundreds.
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