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  • Hands on: Everything new in tvOS 18 for Apple TV

    diman80diman80
    lotones said:
    Disappointed Apple TV 4K is still limited to 48 kHz audio from both hi-res Apple Music  and streaming directly from a Mac. Imagine if your photo streaming was limited to 720 ppi.  :|
    It needs to have an EQ also which would be an easy software drop-in featue. MacOS has it, iOS/iPadOS have it, tvOS, which is more likely to have larger speaker setup for better living room / home theatre listening experience does not. Disappointing also.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • macOS Sequoia beta review: yet again small but welcome changes

    diman80diman80
    What about performance (especially for M1), redesigned Photos App?
    Alex1NwilliamlondonOferMisterKitwatto_cobra

  • Apple has big camera upgrades lined up through iPhone 19 Pro

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    Pema said:
    All this constant chatter about cameras, cameras, cameras. I get it. Phone users want to take pics. Of just about anything, anytime, everywhere. These days you can't stroll on a street and not see someone holding up their phone taking a picture of some rather ordinary pigeon perched on a bollard. Big deal. You know that this pic and the photographer isn't going to end up in a museum somewhere alongside Ansel Adams. 

    For my part I would like to have a camera to be useful to take the most mundane pictures without the constant frustrations that I always experience. I am standing in front my shiny car attempting to take a pick of a panel that needs scratch repair. What do I see? My reflection. So I try to lean away and what do I see? My hands hanging goofy like trying to shoot that pic. How bloody annoying. 

    Then you are trying to flog something online, same deal. A stainless steel kettle and there you are like some skulking creep in the reflection. 

    These are my bugbears about all this talk about cameras. For the average camera user I don't care how many pixels and how many lens when I can't solve the simple straightforward problem of reflection. Of course, you are going to jump in and say, hey get a tripod. Why didn't I think of that? Try lining up that shot, Sherlock. 

    The other issue with phones, negating the all pervasive issue with cameras, is the utterly, stupid inadvertent touching of the screen and suddenly when you look at your phone screen you are facing some alien in outer space trying to flog you a bunch of stellar dust. Huh? How they hell did I get there? 

    And finally there is this dot.com, Dutch Tulip Mania about AI. Every few years the IT industry sinks into the doldrums and then needs a spark, AI. Well, there was a company called Borland run by a bloke called Philip Khan who released a piece of software called Turbo AI back in the last century. 

    Guess what the challenge was? Data. The data that the IT industry is going to scrape to give you intelligent anything is your data manipulated by algorithms, in case you haven't figured that out. 

    In other words, it's not organic AI, it's old, crap data being scraped from humongous warehouses filled to the rafters with servers housing giga mounds of data. And the more we use our phones, our computers to search and do anything the data grows diametrically. But have you noticed this? As soon as you search for a warm toilet seat cover on your next search there are ten vendors that want to flog you warm toilet seat covers. That's not generative or predictive. That's just plain old stupid AI Mimicking. You searched for this so I am going to give you the same. 

    Anyone whose ever stock traded will have noticed the disclaimer: past winnings is not guarantee of future earnings. And that disclaimer ought to be slapped on any AI product in the future: past data is being used to give you your answers but it is no guarantee of anything useful. It's the old saying garbage in/garbage out. 

    Nvidia is running a storm of success to mega trillions, watch how they plummet back to earth same as the Dutch Tulip Mania and the dot.com when the ordinary folks work out that there is no magic bullet in AI. Just the same-o, same-o. 

    The day that someone delivers organic AI is the day I will sit up and take notice. Till, one big, fat yawn  :s     

    Come to think of it, I believe that that is what Humane AI was trying to deliver. Real time AI. See how well they did??  :D
    AI is nothing but engineer trained algorithms on a curated sets of data, not that huge, btw, they don't not need your pictures or anything to train it as that would steer it into something unpredictable.

    Your searches and browsing history have nothing to do with phones, they are saved into your profile with whatever search engine you used (mostly Google), not much to do with Apple, who trim their ability to track you with every major update by introducing various methods.
    Alex1N

  • Russia forces Apple to remove VPN apps from the App Store

    diman80diman80
    seanj said:
    rob53 said:
    At this point, Apple needs to stop selling anything in Russia.
    Given Western sanctions I would hope that Apple isn’t selling anything in Russia.
    Even without these, I would hope Apple’s lauded ethics would mean it would stop selling in Russia of its own volition.
    I imagine Apple has caved so that its existing users in Russia don’t have their access to the App Store and Apple software updates blocked by the Russian authorities.
    You just don't understand their mentality, and it causes more losses for Apple than for the Russian authorities.
    Your suggestion may work on a (Western) consumer, who typically associates their quality of life with the government and refers to different periods by saying "it was under this or that President or Prime Minister." You would just make the majority of Russian people angrier with Apple and other brands, not with their government, and they would become more united and stronger and Apple would have hard time recovering their business once it is over.
    timpetuswilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Final Cut Camera delivers for mobile filmmakers with manual controls & iPad multi-cam

    diman80diman80
    The biggest feature that Filmic Pro has—the ability to choose compression levels—is missing!
    We need the option to have better quality with less compression, like HEVC 150mbps, equivalent to Filmic Extreme.
    The videos look much better and cleaner while still maintaining relatively small file sizes compared to ProRes.
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