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  • 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).


    muthuk_vanalingamMplsPmacguisportyguy209teejay2012tdknoxlondor9secondkox2scatzPDXAppleUser

  • 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

  • iPhone Air was almost portless, but concerns about EU regulations prevented it

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    While magsafe charging is great - it is slow. Further I prefer to use iMazing for backup and copying photographs to external drives rather than iCloud. By limiting iPhone port to charge only it might be an effort to ensure most people use iCloud for all storage and backup. I hope that future software will expand AirDrop to allow the iphone to be fully mounted on the Mac as an external device to better navigate the file system as you can with iMazing.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Everyone is a loser in the Apple Intelligence race

    BlaurieterBlaurieter
    Apple has been distracted lately. Project Titan took about $10 billion over multiple years and a staff of about 2,000 people. Apple Vision has real promise and AI will be a significant part of its equation. We have seen this with Siri - Apple had the best implementation then let that languish. So Apple needs to make a real commitment to Apple Intelligence instead of just making it just another Apple Newton. As we know, Siri will rely partly on ChatGPT - nothing wrong with incorporating a proven product, but Titan seems like the most recent distraction to have jeopardized Apple's leadership. The World Wide Develpers Meeting should be interesting!
    williamlondon