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  • How the Apple Ring will blow all the other smart ring manufacturers out of the water

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    hmlongco said:
    The Samsung Ring is basically a fitness, health and sleep monitoring device. It doesn't do notifications, answer questions, or act as a spy camera. Nor does it need to.

    A couple of things that an Apple Ring could do is authentication and payments. For auth, think of an Apple Watch and how you can authenticate it by unlocking a paired iPhone. Once "unlocked", it could authenticate you to Macs, phones, tablets, and even, perhaps, your car or front door.

    For payments, just hold the NFC chip to a reader and tap your fingers together.

    Have an  Ultra and it's a bit bulky for a sleep tracker. Ring might be better.
    All these things are true - and I even agree that ApplePay payments would be more convenient than with a watch or phone.  But are these small improvements worth the cost in the original device and,  more importantly, the added hassle of charging another device regularly?  The answer is probably 'no' for anyone who already has an Apple Watch and a 'maybe' for most  others.  Not a resounding 'yes' for anyone, really.

    My wife and I both wear Ultras to sleep and neither of us even notices it.  Our main complaint is with the inaccuracy of the sleep tracking rather than wearing the watch.
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  • How the Apple Ring will blow all the other smart ring manufacturers out of the water

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    Not a very convincing article.   The author has no evidence that Apple is actually readying a ring.  Sure, Apple has been filing patents for ring-like devices for years, but it does that even when it has no current plans for one.  It's called research. 

    The author goes on about how the ring has do something better than the existing devices - but never actually gives an example of what that could be.  All he manages is examples of a ring assisting other devices in doing an existing function more seamlessly.  That's hardly a recipe for assured success.  Especially when the  tradeoff for getting a slightly enhanced function (e..g . more accurate heart rate monitoring when both Apple Watch and this ring are worn together), is the up-front cost of that ring as well as the continued 'cost' of having to charge yet another device.  We don't mind charging our phones every day because it provides us with lots of functionality we otherwise would not have.  Same with the Apple Watch.  But is the ability to gesture with a ring vs. pushing a button on the watch or phone enough for you to find the time to charge that ring every day (or every n days)?  I doubt it.

    This equation will change only when something like Apple Glass gets released.  Unlike the Vision Pro, Glass will be worn all day and its market might be as huge as the iPhone because it'll let you do all the things you do on your iPhone without taking your iPhone out of your pocket.  To do that, gestures - e.g. with a ring - will become vital.  But it might come bundled with Apple  Glass instead of being its own product.
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  • Apple is ramping up for a big iPhone 16 sales boost thanks to Apple Intelligence

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    I doubt there will be a 10% increase in iPhone sales for the iPhone 16 introduction.  For one,  none of the AI features Apple is hyping will be available this year - judging by their complete absence in the 3rd developer beta of iOS 18, we're talking about 2025 here.  And then people have to be convinced that these features are actually worth buying a new phone for.  So I doubt Apple will see any benefits from the introduction of AI until iPhone 17 - September 2025.

    And I think unless there's a truly remarkable improvement in Siri's capabilities, there won't be much of a  bump at all.   Don't know how many folks would splurge for a new iPhone for the privilege of being able to search ones email or photo library in more ways - or to rephrase one's email composition.

    Give me a much better Siri and a higher-res optical zoom and I'll stand in line.
    nubuswilliamlondon

  • How to use iPhone Mirroring in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia

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    For me, after authenticating, the iPhone window on the mac just sits there with "Connect to xxx" where xxx is the name of my iPhone.  Rather bizarre.  I have both bluetooth and wifi enabled.  As a bonus, the "Feedback Assistant" doesn't yet have an area of concern for this yet :-(
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple is still working on smart glasses, but it's going to be a long wait

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    Sorry, but I don’t buy the author’s claim that AR glasses would be harder to build than the current Vision Pro.  Quite the contrary: it would need none of the VR-specific, super high resolution screens nor the heavy computing needed to create a virtual reality that includes actual reality as the Vision Pro needs to.

    Imagine a pair of glasses that included sensors/cameras and a small projector to superimpose generated content onto the actual reality seen in the glasses.  Add small batteries in the temple areas, a networking chip, and you’re done.  For a crude example, see the 11 year old attempt by Google.  Unlike Google, Apple should offload all computing to the iPhone, thus allowing for much longer battery life than Google Glass (which was already on par with what Vision Pro with a tether 10 years later!)

    Apple has a decade of technical improvements to draw on as well as its vaunted hardware/software integration to outdo what Google did over a decade ago!  The only real technical challenge is the networking needed to send sensor data to the iPhone and to get the display in the glasses updated in a timely manner.

    There’s no reason Apple AR glasses couldn’t exist today.  Tim Cook just didn’t have a clue as to what his customers actually want and, instead, let his techno geeks run wild.
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