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retrogusto said:

A long shot, but bringing back optical audio output (which TV used to have) would be great for AirPlay directly to the stereo system without requiring a third-party HDMI audio extractor component. Not holding my breath, of course.

For me, the main problem with lack of optical is that you can't stream to the speakers attached to the TV without the TV being on. I just want to be able to stream music with the TV off. Even if it's not possible to tell the TV to sleep and keep the optical on, just make screen black, it would save loads of power on OLED TVs.

I don't know how new this is but the remote app on iOS (not really an app anymore, but still) lets you find the remote-ish. No direction but tells you how far you are from it.

tiredskills said:

chasm said:

Here’s a crazy thought: hire a few HUMANS to write the news summaries. Or, at least, proofread the AI summaries.

How quaint and old-fashioned I’ve become

Here's another one, headlines don't need to be summarised, they are already a summary of a bigger article.  Apple are putting AI to pointless tasks and fudging it right up.

I agree. You can't compress 3 or 4 headlines (which are often clickbatey) into a 3 line summary. It seems too that the AI doesn't look at the news article content either, so clickbait headlines don't get "fixed" to match the article content. Maybe that would be a better use of AI, apply it to Apple News articles and generate neutral headlines.

bloggerblog said:

I would like to see Apple run their own MacWorld expo, no iPhones or iPads, just Macs. MacWorld events were super useful and I miss them. I'm sure there will be iPhone, iPad, Windows, Linux, and other products but they'll be related to the Mac.

They were really cool. Like a Mecca to Mac users, especially so when Mac users were pretty thin on the ground generally. Was great to find cool and unusual software and hardware, I still have a USB hub I bought at one of the London Mac Expos!

Wesley Hilliard said:

kkqd1337 said:

I think major news organisations should be able to opt out of their data being AI processed 

Apple isn't processing data from news organizations. Notification summaries are generated on-device with local data.

@kkqd1337 never said Apple themselves were processing the data. It is being processed by on-device AI. You and Apple literally call it AI notification summaries. 

I think the issue is the summary is sometimes so short it is limited on the number of words it can say, so it just picks what it thinks are important points like in the previous BBC article someone's name, and "gay" and mangles them together which completely loses context and often reality.