Wesley_Hilliard

jfabula1 said:

$1.5 trillion trade deficit? How did we get into this mess. That Buffon is doing something about my kids future, otherwise America will be gone. Debt up to our noses. $36 trillion and nobody is mentioning and not even Apple can survive.

That's not how any of this works. The national debt and trade deficit are two very different things. Also, everything is now more expensive and scarce versus before the current administration took over.

A $45 million parade being held on Trump's birthday. Four $55 million F18 jets in the Red Sea after the administration kept extending the Truman's deployment, exhausting sailors to the point of breaking. Over $18 million spent on golf alone since January with estimates around $60 million if you include travel costs and his frequent visits to his home in Florida. Biden was being attacked by right wing media for spending an estimated $11 million across two years of his presidency.

But yeah, Trump is saving us all kinds of money. Art of the Deal or whatever cultish nonsense people keep saying.

9secondkox2 said:

The fact that the usa gets 30% out of this whole China only gets 10%

This isn't a deal. Americans are paying more for goods. We're just back to where things were before Trump took office, except everything is 10% more expensive for Americans. China lost nothing in this. And it isn't even a deal, it's a pause on tariffs from the US, which means China reduced their reciprocal tariffs caused by Trump from 145% to 10% to match the pause rate. No negotiations were made.

Hopefully this means apple can breathe easier while continuing to diversify the supply chain and get serious about efforts at home.

Not happening. Apple isn't bringing any extensive portion of the supply chain home. The effort would take decades to even get the factories built, let alone training the humans to operate it (if you can find anyone willing to dedicate their lives to it). The result would be an iPhone being built here in 20 years that cost $8,000. Great. The world will have moved on from smartphones by then anyway, so why waste time chasing that result? Even Cue suggested iPhone might be rendered obsolete by some kind of technology in a decade.

Rogue01 said:

9secondkox2 said:

No need for a MacBook Pro redesign. It’s pretty much perfect in its most recent form. 

The current form is terrible with the unnecessary notch.  In an Enterprise environment with lots of required software that runs in the menu bar, icons are constantly hidden by the notch and users don't know what to do to find and move the icons.

So you'd rather have a smaller display or a larger laptop instead of installing a Menu Bar management app?

docno42 said:

Thank god for all of us Epic followed through and won.  A new golden age of apps will likely be upon us - just think of all the apps that devs never bothered to follow through on because of Apple's arbitrary, capricious and fickle application of the rules?  

Tim Sweeney?

s.metcalf said:

pichael said:

Fantastic idea… and then you can use all that money saved to continue paying for the subscription after the point you want to cancel it as there is no easy way to unsubscribe. Or their weak card processing system gets hacked and you lose all your financial details. 

Huh?  If you can’t manage subscriptions that’s on you.  It’s not that hard.  I routinely subscribe then cancel straight away so I can use it for the month and when it runs out it stops and if I want to resubscribe I do the same again.  Or better yet I get a good deal on an annual subscription like I did for Paramount during Black Friday and I don’t have to worry about it for a year.  Again, it’s not that hard.

And the whole “payment insecure” thing is a bogus scare tactic and is widely debunked.  These are mostly global companies and many offer Apple Pay outside the app.  Do you not buy anything online not from Apple?  Give me a break!  Credit card companies and your bank have their own fraud protections and insurance guarantees.  Again, if you can’t manage and keep an eye your own bank accounts that’s on you.  Did I mention it’s not that hard?

You missed the point of the comment. It isn't hard today, sure, because there are laws (that the current admin wants to ditch, or may have already) that forces companies to make it as easy to unsubscribe as it is to subscribe. And having a central place to manage everything in Apple's ecosystem helps keep this in check.

tshapi said:

What you’re saying, is exactly what people said about most major revolutionary tech. About the internet and so on. AI is actually very helpful, if asked the right prompt. AI makes for a great assistant at this stage.  Do research, get help with meal planning, help with resumes and aspects of job searches.  Helps with comparison shopping when asked the right prompts.  If used correctly, it can help people utilize there time better. 

Wesley_Hilliard said:

DAalseth said:

Steve Humiston said:

DAalseth said:

My systems are Google Free. This isn’t a way to get me excited about Apple Intelligence.

Nothing wrong with that.. but you should be excited about AI, if you like technology... and right now Apple Intelligence is the like the Zune of AI

Why?
I’m not being snarky I honestly want to know what it would do for me. So far I’ve seen writing tools that will revise my work to remove my voice and style. I’ve seen art tools that make things that are far worse than what I create already. I have not seen anything that makes me think, “Yeah I really want my phone to be able to do that.” The articles here and elsewhere have not sold me on it.

Honest question: Why do I want AI, from Apple or anyone? 

What, you don't believe the grifters? 

The poorly named "AI" that has been overhyped by terrible companies is actually a decent technology set. It will be *everywhere* eventually, but not in a flashy marketing way. It's going to be more like revolutionizing the way cars burn fuel so they are more efficient. Data gathering, processing, and presentation all benefit from LLMs to an extent, as long as you limit the dataset. Get too big and hallucination rates increase by magnitudes.

So no, there's really no real consumer use cases and likely won't ever be. AI is inherently a boring autocomplete machine that shouldn't even be marketed. Just look at Apple. Word processing and summaries? Yep, that's the best use of the technology. Apple Health data parsing? Also great for users, just not hugely marketable.

Altman tried to make advanced Excel spreadsheet parsing look sexy by saying it'll overturn democracy and end the need to work. The hype cycle is nearing its end and AI will soon fade into a background technology where it should have been all along.

Wesley_Hilliard said:

DAalseth said:

Steve Humiston said:

DAalseth said:

My systems are Google Free. This isn’t a way to get me excited about Apple Intelligence.

Nothing wrong with that.. but you should be excited about AI, if you like technology... and right now Apple Intelligence is the like the Zune of AI

Why?
I’m not being snarky I honestly want to know what it would do for me. So far I’ve seen writing tools that will revise my work to remove my voice and style. I’ve seen art tools that make things that are far worse than what I create already. I have not seen anything that makes me think, “Yeah I really want my phone to be able to do that.” The articles here and elsewhere have not sold me on it.

Honest question: Why do I want AI, from Apple or anyone? 

What, you don't believe the grifters? 

The poorly named "AI" that has been overhyped by terrible companies is actually a decent technology set. It will be *everywhere* eventually, but not in a flashy marketing way. It's going to be more like revolutionizing the way cars burn fuel so they are more efficient. Data gathering, processing, and presentation all benefit from LLMs to an extent, as long as you limit the dataset. Get too big and hallucination rates increase by magnitudes.

So no, there's really no real consumer use cases and likely won't ever be. AI is inherently a boring autocomplete machine that shouldn't even be marketed. Just look at Apple. Word processing and summaries? Yep, that's the best use of the technology. Apple Health data parsing? Also great for users, just not hugely marketable.

Altman tried to make advanced Excel spreadsheet parsing look sexy by saying it'll overturn democracy and end the need to work. The hype cycle is nearing its end and AI will soon fade into a background technology where it should have been all along 

Sure, if you want your assistant, research, resume, etc to have a 20% to 30% chance of having incorrect information.