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gatorguy said:

tht said:

jeffharris said:

tht said:

lewchenko said:

Best to mention what it’s not bringing to the table, but arguably should have these 5 things in the 16 pro series ….

3. A diet. Yep , the pro phones are true porkers these days. Just go pick up an iPhone 6/7 series phone and feel that difference. Ah wait, next years 17 air / slim might give you that. 

It will be the best iPhone yet, but honestly …

Just switch to Android. That is the best possible feedback to Apple that their products aren't good enough for you.

Why would any of us willingly torture ourselves with generic Android dross? AND lose Apple system integration? 

Classic cutting off of one’s nose to spite who? 

One of the many major selling points of iPhone is it’s seamless integration with other Apple products. 

Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods Pro and not, etc., etc.

Just responding to a troll post. If certain features are important to people, they should really get a phone with those features. It's not hard...  It's the usual spec race that got Apple to say "specs don't matter". What matters is the user experience.

Google actually says the same thing, they build phones designed for the user experience, not spec-humping. Yet apparently for some notable percentage of Apple users, specs do matter afterall, whether Apple or Google believes they shouldn't (Samsung doesn't weigh-in for some reason).

There's no shortage of spec-sheet comparisons here at AppleInsider whenever an Apple competitor releases a new device, and those articles attract a lot of eyeballs and comments. 

VictorMortimer said:

jdw said:

ChatGPT4o, is the most brain dead stupid thing to come along in quite a while.  Sure, it does a few things surprisingly well, but it makes enormous mistakes of epic proportions every single time I use it. And when I attempt to correct it, it foolishly apologizes and then rephrases its stupid errors.  When I tell it repeatedly that it is in error, it repeatedly apologizes but never learns.

When I use ChatGPT via Bing (which I often do after my freeloader time limit for GPT4o runs out), it too makes mistakes. And when I get pissed off at it and give it a piece of my mind, silly Bing suggests I change the topic and a new session begins.  Totally hilarious that Bing is protecting ChatGPT!

Every single time I use ChatGPT4o in Chrome (which is the most reliable browser for it), at times when it gives me a clickable link, the link will never open when I click on it.  That forces me to tell it to give me links in plain text.  Why plain text?  So I can copy/paste it into a browser's address bar myself.  That's a work-around the "can't click the text link" bug, but quite nearly 100% of the time, when I finally am able to open the link, it yields a 404 or totally unrelated info.  It's maddening!

I am also not inclined to trust ChatGPT because it lies.  Because of it's blatant lies, I almost always ask it for links to its source info.  And that is how I know the links are bogus.  I sometimes believe what it tells me is true, but without a link to source info, I cannot trust it 100%.  I become especially doubtful when it gives me a link that leads to totally unrelated topics.

I mainly want to use ChatGPT to search the web faster and easier than I can Google something, asking it to check multiple sources.  Sadly, most of the time GPT4o misses info I know exists.  I often test ChatGPT based on what I know is out there on the web and is easily found by Googling.  Often times it misses that info when it does its own searches, and then comes back and tells me something wrong or incomplete.

I truly hate ChatGPT a lot of the time because it lies so often.  For example, I've recently been comparing OLED TVs and soundbars.  It tells me certain specifications that simply are not true.  When I point out its error, it apologizes and deletes the single error line, and then just repeats the rest it told me before.

Why do I even torture myself by continuing to use the stupid thing?  Because it sometimes does a decent job in very specific situations like summarizing text or rephrasing.  I prefer that use case because I am good enough in the English language to know if what it tells me is good or not.  But in other cases where I am looking for facts I don't know to be true, it often lies; and even when it doesn't lie, I try to get links to source info, but those links never work.

So it's a real love-hate relationship, but more hate than love.

It is totally and utterly laughable that governments and people around the world are afraid of AI.  Yeah right!  Maybe 100, 200 or perhaps 300 years from now it might be worthy of such fears, but at the moment it's not that far ahead of brain dead Siri.  It's no different than the fake promise of "self driving cars." That's not going to happen in my lifetime.  Truly autonomous driving means no human intervention is EVER needed, and you can drive in any situation, like mountain driving in the snow with sunlight reflections hitting the snow and blinding you occasionally.  Or driving on dark roads that aren't marked with paint.  Or driving off-road in the dirt.  Nope.  No matter what these car companies say, what they have now is little more than a joke.  It gives you a great first impression, but using the tech for a while shows how ridiculous it is.  

The PROMISE of AI is great, but it's far, far in the future before we can sit back and experience true "intelligence" that's "artificial."  What we have now in the world of AI is barely useable.  It's more entertainment than anything else.

I write all this to say that if Apple CHARGES MONEY for such digital stupidity, I certainly will not be lining up for a subscription, They have a LONG way to go before its worthy of dedicated fees and special charges.  We're very much in the R&D stage right now.  I say this in the hope of something far superior to what we have now, while at the same time, I am a realist too.  It's not great now, and it probably still won't be that great 10 to 20 years hence.  We need a real technological breakthrough to make a huge leap in usability.

It doesn't have to be correct to be dangerous.

It doesn't have to be correct for corporations to replace humans with LLMs.  It just has to be cheaper.

It doesn't have to be correct to be used for election interference.  It just has to repeat the lies the politicians want.

Was your rant out of a LLM?  It's only sort of triggering my "machine generated" sense, but there's a few bits that just seem a bit... off for a human.

DAalseth said:

hammeroftruth said:

“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”

Mark Twain

You know, it’s funny. I was always good at math. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry I aced. Calculus was a bit of a struggle, but I ended up with Bs. But the two times I studied statistics it was like hitting a wall. Oh I passed, because they asked “calculate the standard deviation of these numbers” and that sort of thing. I could do the operations just fine. But as far as what they meant, I don’t have a clue. Ok, average is fine, but beyond that it’s all hand waving and gibberish to me. 

sbdude said:

avon b7 said:

melgross said:

I hope not. That’s a stupid idea. Huawei tried that for their first model and it was mocked and a failure. There’s no easy way to protect a folding screen.

It's not a stupid idea, nor was it mocked (at least by most reviewers - though some will mock anything for a click). 

Mate X:

"The Huawei Mate X might be the first foldable phone you seriously consider paying gobs of money for in 2019. Its solid-feeling hinge allows this handset to fold up, transforming from full 8-inch tablet into a more-traditional-looking 6.6-inch and 6.38-inch smartphone with a screen on either side. It feels like you're holding the future in your hand, just know that your transformative euphoria over this phone comes at a very high price."

Mate Xs:

"A foldable phone that expands into a tablet has been thought of as the next form factor for mobile devices. Huawei has thrown conventional design out of the window with Mate Xs by placing the foldable screen on the outside and we think this design makes great sense as you're not stuck with a secondary smaller display"

Mate Xs2:

"This unique, wraparound foldable design opens up a wealth of advantages, showcased by the Mate Xs 2's predecessor. These include a thinner body, a larger tablet screen, and a comfortable front display when in smartphone mode. That's versus the hyper-tall 25:9 cover screen on the Galaxy Z Fold 2 and Z Fold 3 that's super-narrow."

(All comments from Tech Radar). 

It is an idea that, like most folding options, has pros and cons. 

You protect a folding screen by looking after it. You protect an outer folding screen by taking extra care. Especially given the asking price. 

Even slab phones are used in pouches and users slip them in and out. They are perfect for 'outside screen' folders.

The main advantages are, ehem, twofold. 

Less screens on device and and a thinner overall design. 

In the case of the above mentioned Huawei variants, most of the hardware is placed in a balanced 'grip'. A single strip that allows the rest of the phone to be extra thin. 

And don't forget the model mentioned here is the XS2. The third model  of the design.

It's all a question of options. How many types of folding options are there? Or you fold 'in' or you fold 'out' (although tri-folding phones are coming, it seems). That is it. 

Huawei has brought both types to market. 

If you fold 'in' you need an extra screen. If you don't fold in, you don't, but the tradeoff is the screen is less protected. Let's forget for a moment that phones that fold 'in' also have that extra screen facing down on a surface when it gets fully opened. 

I will mention though that the frames are designed so as to keep the screens off of flat surfaces. 

That does not eliminate the tradeoff completely. 

You choose what you prefer based on your needs/preferences/budget... 

At least we know one blog likes a foldable phone. That should be reason enough, right? Right?!?