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

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    danvm said:
    danox said:
    Who are those rivals it can’t be Microsoft and Qualcomm they can’t even get their act together with the Surface Platform notice that Recall is still basically in dry dock, like all the other AI solutions. The Windows development kit that was supposed to help developers port Windows programs over to Arm has been canceled by Qualcomm, maybe Google is the one that is ahead?
    I think Qualcomm did a great job with their first Oryon CPU for desktop.  They are ahead of Apple with 45 TOPS compared to Apple M4 38 TOPS.
    These are marketing numbers that don't hold up in real-world testing:

    https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/84389
    https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/84303
    https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/77044

    M2 iPad is faster than the highest Snapdragon. Not to mention the results vary hugely depending on which product they are used in:

    https://browser.geekbench.com/ai/v1/52178 (single precision 401 vs 3428 on the M2 iPad)

    M4 is also Apple's lowest chip usually with no active cooling, they have M4 Pro, Max and Ultra, up to 8x this.
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  • Future of Apple Pay could be digital keys for rental cars, says Apple Pay executive

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    DAalseth said:
    For the record I almost never see anyone paying with their watch or phone. Here in Southern British Columbia near Vancouver, it’s practically all chip card.
    Individual anecdotes don't reflect real-world trends. Says here nearly 80% of Gen Z adults use mobile devices for payments:

    https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/national-business/mobile-debit-payments-in-stores-jump-53-per-cent-over-past-year-interac-7445358

    There are people who walk around without a wallet or purse and just their phone or watch.

    It may be an option for kids who don't have their own payment cards. Parents can add cards or cash accounts to their kids' phones:

    https://screenrant.com/set-up-apple-pay-teens-apple-cash-family/

    There is risk in this trend of making the phone the single point of failure for everything and it becomes very apparent when traveling when there are boarding passes, room bookings, taxi apps, banking apps and so on. The screen not turning on, a battery failure, network failure or lost/stolen device can cause a lot of problems for people where separate points of failure have less impact. Most of the time though, it's convenient to have everything in a compact device and mobile payments are among the most secure transaction systems, which is good for retailers.
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  • Surgeons say Apple Vision Pro saves them pain and injury

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    danox said:
    Obviously none of this is instantaneous, the Apple Vision ramp up will be the same as the Apple Watch small iterative steps that build up into big things over time, the software/hardware race is at the beginning of the cycle.

    Buy more shares or continue to hold? Hmm….
    The impact on share price will depend on how much it can drive revenue. The Watch was reported to ship over 50m units per year. ASP is probably $300-400. $300 x 50m = $15b and makes up a significant part of the wearables revenue as well as being a huge install base for 3rd party software support.

    https://watchfaces.co/apple-watch-dominates-the-market-with-50-million-units-sold-in-2022/

    If they can get AVP to a mass-market price point, they can reach this revenue and enough units to be a platform for 3rd parties to generate revenue on.

    $1500 x 10m units = $15b. They sell this many Macbooks around this ASP. It's not going to move the overall revenue much from ~$390b (4% growth) but the more platforms the better.
    watto_cobra

  • System admins irate at Apple's plan for shorter cert lifespans

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    Joer293 said:
    Ive worked for multiple cloud providers and security red/blue teams. Rotating certs for some systems is entirely hands off and flawless.  Like Microsoft AD and desktops. MS solved the desktop rotation headache decades ago. But, That is not the case for big businesses at all. They cant use lets encrypt or free tools to rotate because those all violate some other security compliance issue for their regulated work loads. certs for business critical apps are labor intensive, the change to 1 year mark for TLS has led to an industry wide increase of outages related to cert rotations. Sacrificing Availability for almost no gain of confidentiality isnt worth it for business.. Sure, changing 1 system is easy. Synchronization of changing certs on 100,000 servers of 100 different functions isnt easy, and automation would need changes every single rotation, making it not as helpful as executives think. Most internet infrastructure requires 30+ day notice for downtime and have dictated maintenance windows per customer contracts. Rotating certs on 24/7 apps requires downtime. Often its kept to a 60 second cut over, but worst case with banks mainframes, dozens of teams, it can be several hours. There are set maintenance windows too. 45 days really means 30 days + 15 grace period. Just like 13 months is 12 months + 1 month grace period. This will be a nightmare for security. Outside of researchers, nobody is breaking certs besides governments. Hackers have 1,000 ways to break in, certs dont even make it on that list of things to try. Like rekeying your front door monthly, when that effort distracts you from closing windows. 
    For big installations, it can cause a lot of headaches. They usually have teams of people to fix it but hours of downtime can cost millions.


    It feels like there could be a separation of privacy and trust. Encryption could be done ad-hoc at the protocol level and enabled all the time so there's never such a thing as http. Then there would be a separate process for trust.


    Encrypt the connection ad-hoc to ensure the communication is always safe and private.
    Have trust certificates to verify the company is who they claim to be.

    This separates the functionality of the service from the trust of the service and an expired certificate wouldn't matter so much and possibly easier to deploy.

    There should be a habit of renewing trust certificates well in advance of expiry. If the certificates gave internal warnings to sysadmins of expiry 3 months in advance, most would renew them in advance and put the new ones in place for transparently swapping to the new ones.

    Switching to shorter time periods needs the process to be more seamless first.
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  • Surgeons say Apple Vision Pro saves them pain and injury

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    hogman said:
    All I got from this is, how does a monitor cost $30,000? Especially when all the monitors I see in hospitals display simple graphs and numbers.
    It's similar to reference monitors for movies. Apple compared their XDR displays to $20000+ reference displays from Sony. They tend to have better calibration and features for their use cases.

    https://www.monitors.com/collections/surgical-displays
    https://www.monitors.com/collections/surgical-displays/products/barco-mdsc-8358-k9307938

    https://synergymedco.com/product/sony-lmd-xh550mt-55in-4k-3d-2d-lcd-medical-monitor/ (medical features listed)
    https://www.medicalecart.com/products/sony-lmd-xh550mt-55-inch-4k-3d-2d-lcd-monitor-high-performance-medical-monitor-box-of-01.html

    Low glare, picture-in-picture, 3D image input, color accurate, designed for easy cleaning for hygiene etc.
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