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  • Tim Cook talks Apple Intelligence, OpenAI, and iconic Apple products with MKBHD

    Yeah, he claimed the Magic Mouse is ergonomic 🤣 
    s.metcalf
  • iOS 18 RCS rollout coming in the fall to bridge Apple & Android messaging gap

    Any chance that Apple will create an end-to-end encryption implementation of RCS down the road?
    watto_cobra
  • Sherlocked by Sequoia: What apps Apple may have killed in macOS and iOS 18

    araquen said:
    I’ve dabbled in third party solutions, and tend to give up using them. Some of them got my money, and I have no regrets.

    Grammarly - I found this intrusive, plus I was not going to pay a subscription. 

    1Password - I was NOT a fan of moving to a subscription, and there was one update that “broke” attachments. If Apple’s native password manager lets me maintain parity between my Mac and my frankenbox (though with Microsoft screwing up Windows 11 as it is, I may not need the frankenbox anymore), I don’t mind removing another subscription from my budget.

    Windows managers - I’ve tried them and this functionality doesn’t really work for me anyway.

    Calculators - I never needed anything fancy. The apps on iPhone and my Mac are fine for my needs. PCalc has a digital dice app, which I did buy and I am sure Apple has no interest in. So if anyone wants to keep supporting PCalc, especially if you’re looking to get into TTRPs, Dice is worth the price.

    Calendars and task managers - there has been NO calendar solution that does what Apple’s Calendar will do, with the exception of Palm’s Palm Desktop calendar, which maybe clung to live as late as 2008: which is the in-line coordination of to dos and calendar entries. Even Fantastical keeps reminders to a sidebar. I have been begging for “threaded” tasks and calendar entries for almost 20 years. If there is another calendar app that will do this, I can’t find it, and if Fantastical can do this, I was never able to unlock that feature (unless it was gated behind a subscription paywall).

    Journals - I have never been able to journal, even though I bought several journaling apps (some of which switched to subscription, and I draw the line at subscription models for software.

    The one app I really wish Apple would sherlock is TuneUp. To date, has been the best tagging software I have ever used - as long as you are diligent. It is no longer in development and can no longer be used with Apple’s jukebox (Apple Music). But TuneUp worked from the same database Apple uses, not the insanely inaccurate Musicbrainz current full featured music taggers rely on, and was able to determine what was an album track versus a complication track. It allowed you to force a recording into an album even if the identifier believed the track was from a compilation, and was able to use duplicates to build out multiple albums before flagging the file as a duplicate (great for, say, The Beatles, where the same songs appear on a LOT of albums, both as stand alone albums and compilations). It could also bulk process files, and didn’t require music files to already be in an album folder. You could literally have a drive full of music files and TuneUp would sort and tag all of it without you having to micromanage it. APPLE! SHERLOCK TUNEUP!

    For better or worse, music is all about streaming nowadays. Very few companies/apps support standalone standalone music files and MP3 collections. So I really doubt you’ll ever see Apple offer the options that Tuneup did.
    zeus423xyzzy01watto_cobra
  • Apple Store unexpectedly goes down ahead of WWDC

    How is this unexpected? The Apple Store almost always goes down ahead of major announcements 
    watto_cobra
  • Apple's AI catch-up ends at WWDC and with the iPhone 16, says Kuo

    Outside of the Siri upgrade and some app capability additions, Apple’s “AI” sounds like a letdown if it’s just Apple’s connecting software attaching to already available third party stuff. 

    Weird that Apple didn’t attempt its own full ai when Gemini, gpt, and copilot aren’t exactly setting the world on fire. 

    Surely Apple could do better? 

    From the company they’d started the ai assistant craze and developed so much of the industry standard innovations in hardware and software that we enjoy today, it’s downright disappointing. 
    The use of third party integration for AI is temporary while Apple fine tunes its own in-house systems. They will almost certainly move to those when Apple feels that they are ready for use.
    watto_cobra