Rogue01

Xed said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

Apple needs to add the other big ones, Gemini, Grok etc

As they clearly are not capable to do it themselves.

Apple really needs to shake thing up.

Why exactly don't you think Apple can do it?

Because for 14 years, they have done nothing to improve Siri.  So don't hold your breath for anything special with Apple Intelligence.  Currently, it offers nothing to help anyone, except for making creepy images in Image Playground.

But the W.O.P.R. learned from playing Tic-Tac-Toe, and the only winning move was not to play.

22july2013 said:

"in making you upgrade at Apple's ludicrously expensive rates."

Are you comparing Apple's upgrade rates for M-Series RAM (on-die memory) to other platforms (eg, Intel) where the RAM is on separate packages/chips (eg, DDR5?) If so, that's not a fair comparison, because the performance isn't the same. On-die memory has lower latency, higher bandwidth, lower power consumption, reduced complexity and increased reliability. But if you don't value those things, then Apple RAM upgrades are expensive, yes.

You are completely missing the point.  You must be forgetting that Apple had the same ridiculous high prices for memory upgrades with the Intel Macs, with slotted user-upgradable memory.  Apple did not change their upgrade prices for memory when they switched to ARM.  So performance and unified memory has nothing to do with their prices.  Apple has been ripping people off for decades with their memory upgrades.  Now it is even worse.  The M4 Air with 32GB upgrade is $400.  The M4 Pro MacBook Pro with 48GB is also $400.  The M4 MacBook Pro with 32GB is $400.  This is just Apple ripping people off.  Now you are forced to buy from Apple so they can rip you off because they know you have no other options.

danox said:

mebbert said:

sconosciuto said:

Teams is a hot mess. Zoom is vastly superior in every way.

and yet… the IT people at my very large institution have guzzled the Redmond Flavr-Aid and are doing all they can to kill use of Zoom and cram Teams down everyone’s throats. They seem to think Zoom and Teams are interchangeable videoconferencing solutions which is hilarious coming from people who are paid to understand technology. They actually consider Zoom to be a toy and Teams to be a professional solution 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very fortunately our c-suite people love Zoom.

I don’t understand why so many people dislike Teams. I think it works great on many levels. Video calls work great. I especially value integration with Office. 

Integration is what makes ecosystems valuable. 

The company I work for used teams and it was junk. Never worked right always had little glitches just like Windows, but the IT guys loved it because it made them feel needed.

And how long ago was that?  Why didn't it work right and what little glitches?  Most issues are user errors because they don't know how to make sure their headsets or mic and speakers are selected correctly and that is usually why they had issues with meetings.  Same is true for Zoom.  Current version of Teams is pretty stable and the 365 integration can't be matched with Zoom.  Since most companies use 365, Teams is it, and Zoom is not.  No software is perfect, but Teams isn't as bad as the commenters here claim it to be.

AppleZulu said:

Siri is currently better than the peanut gallery claims. 

No, it is not.

Siri, play Tom Petty.  Siri: Playing music by MC Hammer.
Siri, play 'name of playlist'.  Siri: Sorry, I can't do that.  Siri cannot even play a playlist because she can't figure it out.
and my favorite
Siri, give me directions to 'address'.  Siri: I cannot do that while you are driving.  WHAT?  That is the whole point of Siri and that is the message that came up in CarPlay.

Sorry, but Siri is not any better than day one.  So many basic things that Siri can't do.  Here is what I found on the internet.  Yeah, whatever Siri.  And the AppleTV Siri is even worse, and so is the Mac Siri. You don't even know what to ask it because Siri is different on all devices.