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  • Apple and OpenAI allegedly reach deal to bring ChatGPT functionality to iOS 18

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    avon b7 said:
    danox said:
    We shall see I anticipate Apple will temporarily use OpenAI like they used Google for Maps until they get their version online.......Note the Google geeks are still up in arms about it like many in tech are still mad about Apple dumping Intel keeping AMD and Nvidia at arms length with their SOC designs.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1cwdlak/notebookcheck_apple_m4_soc_analysis_amd_intel_and/ Geek Meltdown :smile: 
    I suppose that is a tacit admission that you accept Apple is behind here. 

    If you think Apple, two years after the buzz around this subject hit the mainstream, will still have to 'temporarily' use a competitor's solution, then it doesn't look great. 

    Most people up to now have simply pointed to the painfully obvious fact that Apple has been behind because it had no competing solution. 

    It was always unwise to counterargue that it wasn't behind and pointing to the future. 

    Those competitors also have a future and are moving very, very fast. 

    We just don't know what will be announced next month and also have no idea when it will reach Apple users. I suppose we are realistically looking at year end.

    The question then will be 'in what state?' Beta? Fully baked? Fully baked but limited? Will they try to monetise it? If so, to what degree.

    If you have the possibility of integrating someone else's solution, it's nice to have those options while you work on your own. Some people will have problem with that. 

    I very much doubt Apple even considered going another year without these options, so at some point over these last two years someone probably said it's time to pivot the ship to AI. Late but better late than never. 

    At this point, it's clear to me that Apple got caught off guard with this. 

    Better to accept that, move on and look forward to having those options available at system level. 


    This isn't about being 'behind' it's about 'how' and 'when' to have the best results and long-term benefits to Apple and the billions of Apple device users.  Not about 'I got there. First, I have a website where people using computer products can play.'
    tmayAlex1Njas99watto_cobraBart Y

  • Apple and OpenAI allegedly reach deal to bring ChatGPT functionality to iOS 18

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    If Apple announces at WWDC, as expected, they can hardly be 'just coming to an arrangement' with anyone.  This has to have been baked in for a while.  

    Apple's advantage is getting AI into end users' hands and increasing the sales potential for device upgrades.  Most other companies don't have the same level of market penetration of end-user products with the potential to run AI locally. This is going to be huge over the next few years, and I can't wait to see where AAPL goes.

    I just read that Apple News+ has been astronomically successful, yet another area in which Apple is 'new' and 'late to the game'  then takes an industry lead. Do I really need to list all the other examples?  When will the nay-sayers get it?  Apple tends to succeed (to put it mildly), even if not immediately.
    danoxAlex1Njas99watto_cobraBart Y

  • Apple gets another App Store antitrust win, this time in China

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    I owned a software company at one time.  I'd have laughed if anyone had told me I could keep 70% of my sales revenue.  These companies bitching about the 30% have no clue about the overheads they'd face without the Apple Store.  Their solution is easy: leave the Apple Store and find out.
    ssfe11rob53danoxwilliamlondonstrongywatto_cobra

  • System Settings getting shuffled again in macOS 15, among other UI tweaks

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    jrcw said:
    Why has Apple consistently refused to include a Install/Uninstall applications manager?
    Good question.  For years, I have used the very simple and extremely good AppCleaner, which gets all the files associated with any Application as well as the application itself.  but lets you decide what to delete, e.g. you may wish to keep preferences. It's never failed me.  https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

    It's better than the Windows Install/Uninstall system IMHO, as that can fail, not to mention differences between Applications as to whether it even exists as an option (some Windows applications insist on running their Install and then selecting Uninstall. Most times, I have deleted the install utility long ago, so then I have to find the website and download it again. PITA!
    williamlondonJamal_Jamal

  • UK rushes through Digital Markets Act copycat to regulate mostly US big tech

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    This is what happens when an early election is called.  There should be some caveat that things passed close to an election can just as quickly be rushed undone by the next Government.
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