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appleinsideruser said:

Better yet, Apple should enable this feature on earlier phones. My 14 Pro can put its charging on hold for hours (maintaining 80%) when using continuity camera. It’s not a hardware limitation.

Apple seems to have gone really hard on limiting new features to the latest iPhone in iOS 18.

Apple should have been at the forefront of this, instead they let Siri languish for the last 10 years. Today's Siri fail:
"Hey Siri, Add cornflour to my shopping list." "Ok, your message to Chris says 'to my shopping list'. Shall I send it?" "What? No". "Ok." 
"Hey Siri, Add cornflour to my shopping list." "Ok,  your message to Chris says 'to my shopping list add cornflour to my shopping list'" "Shall I send it?" "No". "Ok." 
"Hey Siri, Add cornflour to my shopping list." "Ok,  your message to Chris says 'to my shopping list add cornflour to my shopping list add cornflour to my shopping list'" "Shall I send it?" "No". "Ok." 
<turns Homepod off and back on> 
"Hey Siri, Add cornflour to my shopping list". "Ok, i have added corn and flour to your shopping list".

What a f**king disaster.

charlesn said:

I was going to pile on with more examples and jokes about Siri stupidity, but at this point, I just can't--it feels like making fun of a special needs student. Sure, you can go there... but do you really want to? I would simply point out that Apple has been trying to fix Siri for fourteen YEARS and here's where we are. No matter how "wow" the AI announcements are at WWDC, the real test, as it is with Siri, is how well any of it actually works. Consider me highly skeptical until that's answered. 

I find it so weird that Siri is an obvious embarrassment and yet Cook et al still bleat on about how you can use Siri for this, that and the other. It's a joke. I *only* use it on my HomePods, and that's because there's no other way of interacting with them aside from Airplay. It's off on everything else.

loopless said:

It is NOT BS.  Unified memory is a huge advantage.

I have a 16GB 14" M1 MacBook Pro, and a  Dell 32GB Windows 11 Core I7 laptop. Both with SSD's.  I use them for software development.
The Windows 11 machine is bumping up against its memory limits (at which point the performance tanks)  earlier than I have problems with the MacBook when doing a similar set of tasks. For example, using QT Creator and Visual Code, then building large code bases and with lots of other apps open at the same time. 

And lets not talk about the various "blue screens" that still seem to plague Windows.
I looked at upgrading the Dell's memory  but it has CAMM memory that costs $1000 to upgrade - so don't be complaining about Apples prices!

Windows is hideously inefficient with RAM. Doesn't excuse Apple from still only supplying 8GB as standard though. If you need a VM for example,  that will eat all of the 8GB straight up. 

32GB Dell CAMM RAM is £422. Apple charges £400 for just 24GB memory on the 14" MBP (which is actually, really only 8GB because the other 16GB doesn't go in the bin when you specify 24GB), the Dell is cheaper (which is not really a surprise, dell is junk).

Why people still desperately defend Apple's nickel and diming on things like this I have no idea, when there are plenty of other areas where Apple is in fact good value that they can use as the argument instead. Another one: the 14"MBP comes with a 70w PSU. To upgrade to the 96W one is £10. A whole £10 on a £1900 machine. Why bother with that extra SKU, it's completely ridiculous and means if you want the 96W PSU, it's a 2 week wait for delivery or pickup because it is special order. Some idiot at Apple decided that was actually a good idea. Much like they were still including an incredibly sluggish 5200RPM HDD in the 2019 21" iMacs for £1200. They were a joke.

This kind of crap gives people so much ammunition when they say Macs are not good value, and people here defending it are just as stupid as whoever decided to charge £10 extra for that PSU.

CheeseFreeze said:

Of course we all know this is BS. The real reason is that Tim Cook wants us to climb the spec ladder. A memory upgrade is probably a better choice versus upgrading cores or even moving from a Pro to Max.

It is this 100%. Same with SSD upgrades, it does not cost Apple £200 to add an extra 512GB chip to the board, more like £6-7; if that. And you can't even justify that it helps pay for macOS or Apple Silicon research that does into those chips, because Apple does not make their own memory. No doubt there will be plenty here that will still try and defend that though and make themselves look gullible and stupid. Apple RAM and storage is a massive rip off.