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  • Apple Card shifting to another big bank will probably kill this small company

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    I wonder how this will effect the Apple Savings? That has been a major attraction for many people. One good part would be better connection between a Chase managed Apple Card and third party management systems like emplan.com which can integrate expense analysis across multiple credit cards, checking accounts, etc. 
    williamlondongrandact73

  • Developer angry that App Store is removing game that hasn't been updated in 7 years

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    The App Store is not a museum. Content needs to be up to date and functional on multiple systems.
    That is not to say that a museum or archive of games, interactive art and other computer-based experiences should not be maintained. That is the idea for the Wayback Machine to preserve snapshots of websites over time. The game developer or a consortium of game developers could participate in such an archive initiative if they really want to preserve a slice of more historical animation and games. At this point good luck finding original Adobe Flash content, for example. 
    tiredskillswilliamlondonzeus423

  • White House says Trump doesn't want to harm Apple and iPhone prices won't rise

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    The new White House has just turned President Kennedy's phrase and personalized it:
    "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

    Now it is Ask not what your Trump can do for you—ask what you can do for Trump."

    The government used to do things FOR people (FEMA, Medicare, infrastructure), now it is what the government will do TO youi. [of to corporations, to colleges, local and state government).


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  • SiriGPT: Apple's chiefs hope to add full chatbot functionality to Siri, eventually

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    Sadly, Siri has been going downhill for years.
    It was initially a bright spot. You could ask things like "what flights are overhead" and it would draw data and display the flight information - now it just provides a link to FlightAware but cannot even pass the request. In those early days Siri was genuinely funny with multiple responses to pop culture tech requests like "Beam me up." or from Kubrick's 2001, "Open the Pod Bay Doors." Now nothing except perhaps a knock knock joke. At least I can ask for the temperature in Tokyo which again is just a request via Google.

    Let's hope for a brighter future but they can also learn from Siri's past when it had a little more edge.
    williamlondondecoderringAlex1N

  • Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    There have also been a lot of distractions: Project Titan - the $10 billion vanity project to develop an automated EV. Apple Vision while promising seemed to suck up a lot of R&D. My experience with Siri was not that it just floated for years, it actually went backwards. At one point it had, for sake of a better word, "endearing" elements. For example: "Beam me up Siri" would come back with an almost snarky funny line. Similarly, "Open the Pod Bay Doors" had the semblance of cultural awareness. There were also practical queries like "Siri, what planes are overhead" which would bring up exactly the flight information for the aircraft above you. Now you just get a dump link to FlightAware - not even with a GPS data point. Sir is now just an irritant with HomePods - it is easier to search for music and then hover transfer playing from an iphone without ever using Siri.

    No, Siri has been going down hill for a long time - who can say what "vision" Apple has left - just more distractions.
    nubuselijahgwilliamlondonAlex1N