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Well, it seems Apple Intelligence is insanely great by functionality - not by name. A new golden era.
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BBC cries foul over Apple Intelligence headline notification summarizations
This is not about BBC or the person. No company should ship a technology hallucinating about suicide.
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Apple may discontinue current iPhone SE & iPhone 14 models in EU
Not so fast. It applies to existing smartphones, keyboards, ... except for those imported into EU or produced locally (none for Apple) before Dec 28th. It does indeed not affect resellers as those products are already on the market in EU.AppleInsider said:However, the EU law does not forbid older smartphones designed prior to the mandate from being sold with the outdated ports. It also doesn't require stopping sales of iPhones by resellers. The mandate only applies to smartphones designed since the law was passed.
"the new rules will apply to all devices that will first be ‘placed on the market’ in the EU, on or after the entry into application, regardless of whether they are of a ‘model’ already marketed." https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:C_202402997
Definition of "placed on the market" is:
"Placing on the market means the first making available of radio equipment on the EU market. In practice, this means that a product has been imported from a third country and placed on the EU market or that a product has been dispatched from a manufacturing location in the EU to the distribution chain."
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Apple continues to evolve the hinge it may use on a folding iPhone
Seems iPhone 17 Air is the preamble to iPhone 18 Fold. Any great folding phone will have to come from something thin and Apple is #1 on thin.
Not so sure it can be sold in the EU with the 2027 requirement that users can swap the battery without special tools. Either make a special thick version for EU, don't sell it at all, or do something unexpected. Going to be interesting!
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Norway gets world's first Apple Pay alternative for iPhone
Norway isn't even part of EU and the Norwegian legislation for copying EU Digital Markets Act isn't in place yet. Norway is however part of EEA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area) and Apple opened payment handling for EEA: https://developer.apple.com/support/hce-transactions-in-apps/
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Apple Intelligence second wave arrives today -- what you need to know
The problem is the lack of memory. iPhone 15 (2023) and iPhone 14 Pro (2022) have less than 8 GB memory. As a result they can't run AI.zimmermann said:I thought that the 14Pro would still be a very modern phone, able to do most of the new AI stuff Apple is bringing. Apparently not.
Not that this wasn't fully avoidable. The first 8 GB phone shipped in 2017. Also in 2017 Apple started work on Apple Intelligence. Apple had plenty of time to align hardware with software. Planned obsolescence due to penny-pinching is never pretty. I do hope there will be books covering what happened around Apple Car, AVR, and Apple Intelligence (which still feels like a C-suite in panic mode).
