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  • Apple R&D spending flat for the first time in over a decade -- sort of

    imatimat
    I alway wonder what does "R&D" mean. What it contains... And I would love to know how and for which projects Apple spends 8 Billion USDs EACH QUARTER. I imagine all of the CPU team's work is filed under R&D. But is the iOS and MacOS team as well? Honestly, just curious. An amazing amount of money.
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  • Barbra Streisand corrected Siri by calling Tim Cook

    imatimat
    There's even an effect named after her... :wink: 
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  • DuckDuckGo could have been Apple's private search engine

    imatimat
    As Apple is right now, I don't think they could really improve DuckDuck Go very much even if they acquired it. Apple still is VERY MUCH a US company. Google and even Meta are much more international than Apple as a mindset and services.

    Examples:
    - how long did it take for AppleTV to have all the promised services in countries outside the US (back in the day when you could buy TV shows on AppleTV but only in the US)
    - how long did it take to sell the OG HomePod in other countries beyond English speaking ones? Related to that: how long did it take to have Siri speak languages other than English and have feature parity (like person recognition based on voice)
    - how long is it taking to release "News" App worldwide (still not available in many countries
    - Apple Card availability?

    Apple is getting better at it, but it still has a long way to go before becoming a truly global service provider. Don't get me wrong, I know some of these involve complicated negotiations and do not entirely depend on Apple alone. But operating a search engine worldwide, with all the rules in place, is not that different...
    williamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • DuckDuckGo could have been Apple's private search engine

    imatimat
    I use DuckDuck Go as the default search engine on all my devices. It performs well with English prompts and I like that it is less cluttered than Google. But, as soon as you search for something in another language (Italian) and/or something more local or specific (like the construction rules for a town in southern Switzerland) Google really has no match as it stands right now.

    For general queries and general search DuckDuck Go is plenty good, but for more localized searches or for searches in Italian (haven't testet other languages so I cannot tell whether they are as good as English) it really doesn't help much.

    I also, sometimes, have the feeling that Google's own searches are updated more frequently.
    Alex1NpulseimagesFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Apple's new iCloud+ big data plans start at $30 per month for 6TB

    imatimat
    If only Apple would discount the prices when part of an Apple one subscription… please… 
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