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  • iPhone 16 Pro metal-wrapped battery & better cooling confirmed by teardown

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    tht said:
    Does this mean it is also easier to disassemble or harder than the 15 Pro models?
    It looks to be about the same level of work imo. You need to have experience doing it, or you are willing to toss the device away in case of a mistake. 

    Curious about the iPhone 16 models, where applying current to the battery case will loosen the adhesive. What adhesive are they using? Does it always work? Are there situations to cause the battery to debond without applying voltage?
    some info here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/100352/we-hot-wired-the-iphone-16
    watto_cobra

  • iOS 18's slow rollout will phase in Apple Intelligence over the next six months

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    elijahg said:
    I really think Apple was caught on the back foot with LLM AI. Only supporting Apple Intelligence on the current and previous generation phones, despite banging on about neural silicon in iPhones since the X, seems more than just an artificial software restriction. I suspect the older AI hardware is essentially unusable to augment a LLM.

    I suspect too that Apple is doing some of the AI processing in software on the iPhone 15 with the less suitable Neural silicon, because all their effort (and therefore features in iOS 18) has been with AI in mind and without AI, iOS18 has very few changes on iOS 17. If they'd announced at WWDC that AI would only be available on the unannounced iPhone 16, there would be a lot of unhappy people.

    That's supported by the silence over how AI will work on the Watch and HomePods which don't contain the LLM Neural silicon, the integration with ChatGPT as they have no LLM worth its salt themselves, and the unavailability of AI for a while yet.
    Almost no one outside tech bubbles and students use AI yet. It's such a small percentage. By the time Apple has this seamlessly working well inside the OS, maybe that percentage has increased by a tiny bit. There hasn't been a killer app for AI yet. Some tools are great, and I use them a lot, but the models will inevitably fail on silly stuff.
    I use Copilot in Office and it's hit or miss. Using it in Canva means I still have to do a lot myself. For coding, I have to check the generated code. Sure, some text generation/summarisation is fast, but it's a tiny use-case.

    Only serving that group is useless, as they will switch from OpenAI to Claude to Perplexity every month when they respectively update.
    There has been a ton of AI/ML in Android for years and we've never heard much about it after the respective keynotes.
    DAalseth

  • EU antitrust chief & Apple foe Margrethe Vestager out after 10 years

    michelb76michelb76
    >Ireland disagreed with her stance then, and still does now.

    Yeah no shit, they want that sweet money. You won't see Switzerland becoming transparant about banking either.

    That aside, it's interesting reading American reactions to a real democracy with consumer protections and actual freedoms. 
    sphericronntiredskills

  • Classic 'Marathon Infinity' lands on Steam as a free Mac title

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    eriamjh said:
    I thought Steam support for Macs died when Catalina went 64-bit only.   Or was it just the games that died?   

    I used to play Half life 2 and Portal and variations from those games.  
    Just the games. Many games, that's for sure. But there's still a lot left.
    watto_cobra

  • When will Apple upgrade all of its Macs to M4?

    michelb76michelb76
    Who knows. Next SEO article please.
    9secondkox2