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  • Car makers reject CarPlay Ultra as an Apple overreach

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    I like the idea of car play, wish I had it in my car, but I don't understand why Apple bothers with it. I assume it's pretty niche and low revenue. Is there a long-term play they need to keep the foot in the door for?
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  • Apple's Eddy Cue is guessing that the iPhone will eventually be replaced by AI

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    Seems a bit rich for cue to talk about AI replacing the iphone, presumably with AI + AR/VR, when he's horribly bumbled Apple's AI rollout along with just about every other Apple service. Has he been purposely trying to sabotage Apple this whole time? Somebody get Hercule Poirot on the case please. Siri is a daily disappointment and frustration that routinely fumbles rote commands and can't even pronounce words like "Hollywood" right (it inexplicably drops the 'y'). 
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  • Next Apple Vision headset may use titanium to cut weight

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    dewme said:
    Can't you just mount an eye bolt on top of the headset and tie a helium ballon to it?
    Lol, grok just calculated that the diameter of the balloon needed to equalize the weight of the AVP is 1.2 meters, totally doable :)
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  • iPhone 17 Pro dummies show where glass ends and metal begins

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    I'm having a real hard time understanding why Apple doesn't just keep the amazing all glass back and titanium design for the pros (extend the camera bump across like the others) and leave the aluminum frame for the base iphone and air. I don't see how the rounded rectangle on the back of the pros won't look awkward. Happy to be proven wrong.
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  • Apple is planning to make enormous design changes to iOS 19 & macOS 16

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    jeffharris said:
    Can Apple PLEASE make UI elements fully SCALABLE for high resolution monitors! 
    PLEASE!

    I recently upgraded to a 27” 4K monitor and it’s a nightmare. 

    Dialogue Boxes are postage stamp sized.
    Menu Bar Items and text are all tiny.
    Text on various application palettes are barely readable.

    I’ve had to increase text and icon size in the Finder, but the Menu Bar and menus are tiny!
    Finder prefs only work for ONE window. Size changes need to be applied to EVERY window I open.

    If I go MacBook Pro without the external monitor, Finder elements are too big.

    Apple has been promising scalable UI forever. Will they ever deliver?
    Apple needs to do this for the iPad mini. It's insane that the default text is smaller than the text on my old iPhone mini.
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