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tvOS 26 adopts Thread 1.4 for an improved Apple Home experience
Very interesting to know. I wonder: will device manufacturers have to push updates for the devices or will it be updated by a border router? I guess, as usual, that some will be keen to update while others not.
I recently purchased several Thread products (I am in the midst of "smarting up my home") and I have noticed, more than once, that when connected using the Matter protocol over thread radio, WITHOUT manufacturer app, the first thing many devices so is update themselves.
All in all I see more and more devices that support thread and it makes life a lot easier.
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OpenAI's $6.5B bet on Jony Ive could redefine how people interact with technology
There's only one question that needs an answer.
For all of the wonders of AI (LLM in particular) no one has still figured out how to make a profit from it. For now they are all startups bleeding cash left and right. Some of them are "inside" companies that can bleed cash for a long time (Google) others have a lot of financing (OpenAI). But, soon, the time will come when the business model has to be sustainable. I imagine Altman knows that and, I think, the move with Ive is to finally create something that can be sold and generate cash. I know there are subscriptions to ChatGPT but these are nowhere near able to cover R&D and/or operating costs.
The great defining moment for the industry won't be "which model is better" but which business model is able to sustain itself in the long term.For all the talk who is first and who is behind (admittedly Apple is behind, don' get me wrong) there will be a "natural selection" between those who can walk on their legs and those who cannot. The latter will probably be bought up.
Also, as it currently stands (I am not a heavy user so maybe I am wrong) I don't see MAJOR differentiating factors among the various AIs. They are just, for the time being, a wonderful amazing free commodity (you can switch from one to the other). And this, as we still are in a capitalist economy, won't last.
Lastly, maybe it's just me, but I often find these "AIs" incapable of doing stuff which would help me.
An example: I take photos of buildings, for technical purposes (job). I asked ALL of the models: "Hey model, can you please calculate the height of the building based on this set of pictures". All of them came out empty handed. Some suggesting I could pixels myself. Very un-useful.
AI now "knows a lot" (sometimes false information) but, as it stands, cannot do a lot, at least beyond what programmers seem to value.
Google's I/O in that regard, with the bicycle video, seemed at least aware there's more that can be done. OpenAI instead seems to struggle to go beyond the "chatbot" version. For all of the cool hardware they might come up with, other models seems to embrace different aspects.
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How to back up your Photos library in macOS Sequoia
Very informative. Although, for the life of me, I cannot understand why there's no way to back photos up from iCloud directly to an external drive without having to download all of them on the main SSD (Photo library) first.
In my case, and I suspect in many others, the library has grown way above the capacity of the internal drive. As much as I appreciate all iCloud features (seamless sync, faces, albums, memories etc) being able to store a copy of the files on an external HDD would give me much more peace of mind. And not having the possibility to do this is a real shame. Unless of course you want to spend one or two days copying files in batches from iCloud and dragging them on an external drive which is tedious, to use a kind word....
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Apple plans another iPhone X style redesign for the iPhone 20
The iPhone is currently already almost entirely glass. Just not "screen". -
How and where Trump's new tariffs affect Apple
Also, it would create huge opportunities for other manufacturers with the guaranteed result of drastically decreasing iOS marketshare worldwide as Apple would effectively price itself out of the market. And the surplus Samsung and Chinese phones which would be pricy in the US would be sold everywhere else at prices much lower than iPhones.gwydion said:
Looking at the sentiment towards USA in the rest of the world I don't know how it will workradarthekat said:
And Apple could raise price worldwide to recoup some of all of the cost of the tariffs on U.S. imports. Here’s the way I see it, and these are very rough numbers used only for illustration.timmillea said:Trump's tariffs only affect goods imported in to the USA. Retaliatory tariffs will affect goods exported from the USA. The bulk of Apple's sales are not in the USA and almost all of its manufacturing is outside the USA. Hence most of Apple's business will be unaffected.
Trump has created an incentive to manufacture in the USA for domestic consumption but also an incentive to manufacture outside the USA for sales in the rest of the World. As manufacturing costs are higher in the USA, the net effect is likely to be higher prices but only in the USA.
About 75% of Apple’s global revenue is hardware, the other 25% being software and subscriptions, etc.
One third of that 75% is U.S., the rest being overseas sales.So if Apple were to split the tariff hit across the entire world it would have to raise prices by only one third as much as it would on U.S. hardware sales, if it were to attempt to cover the entire tariff hit just against U.S. sales. That’s a mitigation, but it’s still a huge increase in prices.
