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This approach is likely more beneficial. First, the automatic upload happened before you could verify the content, likely causing Apple’s servers to receive many unnecessary uploads. Second, as a result of this change, Apple will now seem to avoid favouritism toward its services at the expense of others.

Pema said:

That's brilliant. Now we need to round up roster of users from Antartica and Upper Mongolia who actually use the Apple equivalent of Office. In my entire time in IT and as a Uni Phd student I have yet to see anyone using other than Word, Excel, Powerpoint. 

We use Page and Numbers daily in our business workflow. It's much better than paying the yearly Microsoft Tax for a mostly equivalent product.

It’s bluff on Apple’s part. Apple Intelligence wasn’t going to be available anyway because it only works in English for now.

its also bluff because Microsoft’s solution is available and working in multiple languages and countries, and so is Google’s (and ChatGPT, as well as others).

So Apple is agitating the American flag to hide the limitations of their current AI implementation. 

22july2013 said:

Apple could trademark the term "Apple Intelligence" to try to get people to think of Apple when they think of "AI".

I’m sure they thought about it, but went against it as it would be a constant source of derision if Apple’s AI implementation ended up  as good as their current Siri. 

paisleydisco said:

Okay. a feature that Affinity Photo has always had. 

As the article mentions, it’s not masking that is new : Pixelmator always had that basic feature. What is new is the AI assistance to improve the result