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Maybe Apple is using Apple Intelligence to write store product descriptions. Hallucinating badly...

  

kdupuis77 said:

I agree with a previous poster, they should slice out a spot in the Studio Display to route the cables from that baby so it can sit nicely under the screen (Hell, they'll even save a bit of $$$ on the recovered aluminum haha).

Lol, Apple would make separate the display and the stand and charge $499 for the stand that had a hole punched out for the Mac mini M4. The regular one would be $399.

  

johnwhite1001 said:

You actually have to join a waitlist for Apple Intelligence.  It does not work when first installed on iPhone 15 Pro Max. Waiting to join.  Unbelievable mess!  Cannot even try it out.  It is not enabled until you are approved!   LOL!   Go to Settings to join the waitlist.  AI is listed as Beta still in 18.1.

ALL consumer-facing AI features here in late 2024 are alpha or early beta quality. And not just Apple Intelligence. From every single AI company. Those who don't understand this are going to get in a world of hurt real fast. And I am counting on the media to report on some of the bigger boneheaded failures from time to time. You know, like one of those end of the year recaps such as "Top Ten Things Not To Do With Apple Intelligence."

ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude, Perplexity, whatever. They are all beta. Same with image generators. Same with voice transcription services like Otter.ai. All of it. Every. Single. One.

It's important to remember that Apple mentioned that some Apple Intelligence features were hybrid on device + cloud based. Only Apple will know how many individual tasks will be rerouted to online services but it's clear that there will be some sort of ramp to full production speeds. You can't fill a 100,000 seat football stadium instantaneously nor an airplane. This should be common sense but many humans -- just like AI-powered LLMs -- have very little of that.

All this does is show who is particularly impatient.

Sign up and carry on with your day. Someday you clear the waitlist and get approved. But until then, you can continue using your device like you have been until now. You haven't lost anything.

Unsurprisingly Apple has confirmed additional language support for Apple Intelligence coming soon. Here is the actual Apple press release:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-intelligence-is-available-today-on-iphone-ipad-and-mac/

linked from this article at 9to5Mac:

https://9to5mac.com/2024/10/28/apple-intelligence-language/

This reconfirms the previously mentioned English (Ireland) support coming in December.

This is a good example to NOT rely on one site for all of your Apple-related news. Particularly for Apple Intelligence requirements, 9to5Mac has done a far better job about geographic specifics. AppleInsider has not been particularly noteworthy in these particular matters.

DAalseth said:

THAT’S funny. I updated my iPad and the very first thing I did was to see about disabling Apple Intelligence. What I found was a sign saying “Apple Intelligence is not available when Siri is set to English (Ireland)”. Wow, it failed to meet even my low expectations. 

This is covered in an Apple support document:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/121115

Support for English (Ireland) is coming in December per the aforementioned support document. Feel free to contact Apple technical support for further clarification.

Naturally many tech media sites have covered initial Apple Intelligence requirements ad nauseam. Here is one such article from 9to5Mac:

https://9to5mac.com/requirements-to-get-apple-intelligence-features/

Best of luck.