chutzpah

fastasleep said:

discountopinion said:

Japhey said:

discountopinion said:

Apple devices really are the operating system of my life. I hope that the improvements move the needle even further on their existing offerings and include some jaw dropping surprises.

Personally I would love if AAPL could:

Substantially improved Siri functionality and integration into the broader app eco system. 
1st party generative pre-trained transformer functionality integrated into Siri.
Full and native unreal engine or 1st party competitive alternative.

Substantially improved HomeKit functionality and automation. Ensure HomeKit automation is fully integrated with shortcuts on steroids. Like IFFT and/or iCloud based runners for cloud based jobs but for the rest of us.

Health:
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1) Further improve Apple Health by adding a 4th ring on mental/brain health to include brain feedback devices, meditation & mindfulness as formal "close your ring" goals.
2) First party skin lesion/mole tracker. Using computer vision, lidar etc to map and track changes. Unfortunately a rapidly increasing health issue for many people.

Security:
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3) Prepare and later launch 1st party security keys in a similar format to AirTags. 
4) Refine FindMy alerts and include some system event alerting into the service to better understand why a device is not reachable.. i.e last seen it had X% battery or received a device airplane or shutdown event.
5) Augment Pin unlocking with another option to only unlock if Apple Watch is very proximate to avoid these Pin shoulder surfing and device theft.
6) Add behavioural biometrics to pin unlock so that screen tap cadence and other indicators influence the unlock decision or step up auth with Apple Watch.


I could go on.

Unreal engine? Seriously?

yes or a 1st party tech of similar quality.

Unreal engine 5.2 and Epic’s other tech is being heavily used in meta verse/digital twin and cinematic applications. It’s not a game engine per se anymore. Check out meta human tech, the nanites tech etc.

Some computer vision synthetic data for model training is done this way as an example for self driving cars.

Apple needs to be a leader in this.

What on earth are you talking about? Unreal Engine exists for macOS. 

waveparticle said:

Does it have a camera?

Japhey said:

They need to fix the way apps are downloaded. I want the ability to choose my download location down to the page, folder, and it’s position within. The way we’ve been doing this for the last 16 years, where the new download just occupies the first available empty space, is awkward, inefficient, and outdated. The option to download directly to the App Library and bypass the home screen is a very small bandaid to a much larger problem. The iPhone will be entering its third decade in a few short years (!!!!)…it’s way past time that Apple addressed this oddity in iOS. 

9secondkox2 said:

chutzpah said:

9secondkox2 said:

radarthekat said:

9secondkox2 said:

radarthekat said:

9secondkox2 said:

coolfactor said:

waveparticle said:

proline said:

JP234 said:

Sounds like an ill-timed, but productive visit. Certain elements in the Legislature and right wing media are sure to make hay out of it. But if you ask me, good business ties with China are super important, even in the face of recent geopolitical events. China will to be less inclined to damage their best customer.

Lol. Do you think Russia is less inclined to damage us after we
— gave them Ukraine’s nukes
— gave them the USSR spot on the security council
— shut down our own rocket engine manufacturing and made our rockets dependent on their engines
— made them key partners in the ISS
— let them genocide Chechnya
— let them conquer Georgia and Moldova and Crimea
— gave them Big Macs and iPhones

Of course not. Dictators can’t stop themselves from attacking us. We need to be ready. Apple is making us dependent rather than ready. 

Wow! All Russia's fault. US is the victim. Hate Russia, LOL.

The US is very young compared to Asian countries, particularly China. Unfortunately, because they are the current "world leader", that has gone to their heads, and no other country can be as great. That's the illusion right there. World powers come and go, and have for eons. The US will lose their dominance eventually. And we can only hope that the next world power will be democratic. and more mature and advanced than the current US leadership and population.

True only when it’s allowed to happen. Strangely, our government is now more concerned with gas stoves and air conditioners than they are with innovation, marketplace excellence and military superiority. Recipe for disaster. 

It’s really only a certain segment obsessed with gas stoves.  Hint: it’s the same segment who are banning books.  Maybe you need to take a break from that rhetoric.  It’ll do your heart good.  

There is no rhetoric coming from me. 

Banning books? You mean the books with pornographic content in the libraries of schoolchildren?  And you think that’s bad? Parents across the country are confronting school boards over this. It’s everywhere. That’s not making books illegal. It’s getting them out of inappropriate places where impressionable kids can get into it and back to where adults can choose to read it or not. 

Wow. 

A stove or air conditioner can’t corrupt a child. Adult content can. It doesn’t belong in public schools. 

And the air conditioner thing was reported on today. Coming from the executive branch. Federally. Not a small segment. 

And that’s more attention than our military strength and growth is getting and more than our economy is getting. That’s not rhetoric. It’s the way it is. 

The life of Rosa Parks
1984

shall I go on?  

Rosa would be ashamed of people using her name to justify such things. Get real dude. 

She wouldn’t back down to a culture that was unjustly pushing her and other people of color around, minimizing their humanity and unjustly controlling their lives. 

Protecting kids from pornographic content where sexual acts are described in detail should be something everyone gets behind. Parents are the ones who raise their kids, teach good morals, and protect them from the filth that’s out there during the impressionable years. Sneaking that crap into grade schools is sick. You get Rosa’s name out of your mouth trying to say she would support such evil. Kids go to school to be educated, not groomed. 

The air conditioner and gas stove thing sounds small but it’s more control. Trying to put parents behind the government when it comes to raising kids is alarming overreach. Thank God for a Congress that passed a bill ensuring parents get to know what schools are pushing on their kids. 

Don’t taint the name of a truly great woman by adding her name to your agenda. She did not and would not support it. If you really knew anything about her, you’d know she was a woman of faith with high moral standards and who would be campaigning to have the children of this country protected from the filth constantly pushed on them by those who know better. 

"The Life Of Rosa Parks" is a book you nitwit.

Kind of the point, tiwtin. 

It was a perspective about her not from herself, but others appropriating her story for their agenda. Not hers. 

She wanted equality, not perpetual racism being pushed under “Critical Race Theory.”

sdw2001 said:

avon b7 said:

omasou said:

Good job EU. That certainly helped cure the landfill issues.

Would love to see some numbers on just how a many old chargers and USB A cords get trashed and that are specifically related to the USB C change.

EU directives are only applicable in the EU. 

Nothing is stopping Apple from shipping Lightning phones outside the EU. 

That said, there are plenty of other tech related directives that are very old now as they came into force years ago. WEEE and RoHS are two examples.

What do they mean? 

Less hazardous materials in the finished product and 'free' recycling. It is even illegal to dump e-waste into landfill.

I say 'free' because in reality it isn't free at all. Every time you purchase an electrical or electronic product, the cost of recycling (including transport to the relevant sites) is already factored into the price. 

As for reducing e-waste as a result of the common charging directive, that is the case as per the impact assessments. 

There’s definitely something stopping them.  Money.  They are going to produce an EU phone with usb c and a non EU phone with lightning?  The global  supply and production chain would make this a nightmare.