michelb76

Pretty sure Microsoft doesn't need an OS anymore in a few years. They'll dominate most dev tooling and move most if not all of their products into the cloud, as they already have been doing. I'm pretty sure Apple is keeping MacOS alive on life support because it's the only platform available to develop on for iOS, for now.

chadbag said:

Anyone have any idea what this means?  

“ ambient clinical intelligence for healthcare providers.”

What is “ambient clinical intelligence?”   

I work for a healthcare tech provider and am trying to understand that MS is saying.  

https://www.nuance.com/healthcare/ambient-clinical-intelligence.html

Ambient in this case means "ACI uses ambient sensing technology to securely listen to clinician‑patient encounter conversations while offering workflow and knowledge automation to complement the EHR. Exceeding the capabilities of a virtual or on‑site scribe, the Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX), innovated by Nuance and Microsoft, promotes a better patient experience by accurately capturing and appropriately contextualizing every word of the patient encounter and automatically documenting patient care without taking the physician's attention off the patient." 

Basically advanced transcribing of conversations and possibly looking up information/documentation while the conversation is ongoing. Saves time.

Great, so we can put this non-issue to bed.

JWSC said:

DAalseth said:

Kuo writes. "We believe that Apple will leverage current automakers' resources and focus on self-driving hardware and software, semiconductors, battery-related technologies, form factor and internal space designs, innovative user experience, and the integration with Apple's existing ecosystem."

This makes the most sense. I never understood the idea that Apple would go it alone. It would be silly for Apple to reinvent the wheel, (and the suspension, and the door locks, and the wiper blades, and the...). This would let Apple do what Apple does best, and let a car company do the mundane stuff that they do best.

Oh no.  Just no.  Using the E-GMP platform screams “ROKR” loudly.  I was hoping that Apple would revisit the whole concept of the automobile.  But this is too incremental, just too like everyone else is doing.

And then there’s Tesla to contend with, which has superior batteries and motors and many millions of miles of autonomous driving data to work with.  Even then, is autonomous driving what everyone really wants?  Is that going to sell cars?  Or is it the thrill of putting the pedal to the metal?

Han Solo - “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

Not for Apple to do that. Most people are not ready for a new concept of what a car is. It's too early. A lost of younger people don't give a shit about cars but just want mobility. Car ownership will keep going down. At some point you will just have extensive rental fleets of basic cars optimised for use-cases, like holidays, moving, simple transportation to friends/family. You can see this happening in Europe already. It's probably different in the USA where long-range public transport is non-existent.

And none of it matters, people will keep buying Apple and people will keep buying Samsung.