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  • Apple Intelligence to play catch-up to rivals across 2025

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    So far, Apple Intelligence is delivering well rounded features without passing anything to the cloud (without explicit consent). That is game changing, and I predict that other companies will be scrabbling to catch up with ‘on device’ AI for a limited number models so they can falsely convince users that ‘company x’ does on device processing, whilst the majority of their products will collect and sell the huge data mine that is people’s personal data. 

    Maybe these employees in apple are right to be frustrated, but I, for one, prefer a company to do what is right for the user, rather than progress without guardrails. 

    Keep going Apple, more haste less speed. 
    chasmthtbyronlwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Eufy SmartTrack Card review: A great Find My tracker for your wallet

    kempathonnodgekempathonnodge
    Not rechargeable = outdated for the modern age. Time to move past this disposable model - there is no reason a device like this shouldn’t function for 10+ years with a replaceable battery.  

    There really isn’t an excuse for this any more - I’d rather have a product that lasts one year and has a replaceable or rechargeable battery. 
    dewmewebweasel

  • Ex-Apple lawyer guilty of insider trading gets a slap on the wrist, avoids prison

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    charlesn said:
    Well, this should send a clear and powerful message to aspiring white collar criminals everywhere: If you can't do the time, definitely DO the crime, since there's essentially no penalty for trying and getting caught! Unfriggin-believable. Someone caught stealing a Macbook at an Apple store would get a stiffer sentence. 
    Spot on. Most, if not all, criminals have experienced a lifetime of difficulties and their criminality is not chosen, but often criminal acts of stealing, for example, are the least worst of very limited options. This guy, whilst probably had something going on that pushed him down this route, committed a knowingly huge offence and then chose to lie to the court. Without his power, money and privilege, he’d have gone to jail for a long time.

    This is why our minority brothers and sisters are so disillusioned and angry. Often held back or limited in their access to financial security, when compared to those born into privilege (and I speak from a position of white privilege). Where is their leniency or opportunity to fight the courts for far smaller crimes?

    money = power. 
    Until that changes, we will all continue to see our planet, mental health in our children and communities destroyed. I recommend Gabor Mate’s “the myth of normal”… 

    If you think this is wrong… well the 15 year ago me would have agreed with you. I’ve been lucky enough to work with people and recognise that we are all entitled to a good and enjoyable life, but that our current systems of power actively deny people that basic right, to the benefit of the few. 
    gatorguybeowulfschmidtauxioronnwatto_cobrajony0

  • iPhone 15 has new battery health controls to prevent charging past 80%

    kempathonnodgekempathonnodge
    No doubt that those who are always by a desk or in a car will want to use this feature. I certainly would too. Particularly thinking about the increase in docks and the use of the phone as an office camera, many more phones will be holding a +80% charge that is unnecessary harmful. It’s a feature I understand will make a significant difference to the battery life of those who toggle it on. I think the author of the article has missed the mark on the unequivocal recommendation that it makes no difference.
    watto_cobra

  • Activists agitate for 'iPhone infinity' with AI-generated Tim Cook, promise protests

    kempathonnodgekempathonnodge
    Easier to call climate protestors lunatics than consider the lunacy with which we continue to endanger our own lives by ignoring the devastating impact on our home caused by decades of a failure to act, in my view, of course. 😉 

    But Apple, producing small and largely recyclable electronics, with the most environmentally considered approach of any firm, is not the problem. What about cars, that use several hundred times more material and energy? Or governments allowing companies to continue to make money from turning fossil fuels into cash?

    Defiantly better places protestors can invest their energies. 
    watto_cobra