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  • Phil Schiller will be Apple's ecosystem defender for quite some time

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    Third-party developer relations has always been Schiller’s remit. He is the Phil of the first Apple Developer Group CD, titled “Phil and Dave’s Excellent CD,” which dates to WWDC 1989. So the App Store is his natural turf.
    watto_cobramarklark

  • Apple is already being weirdly criticized for an AI effort that hasn't launched yet

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    zenwaves said:
    tenthousandthings said:
    zenwaves said:
    So, as a 'civilian' consumer - who has owned almost every Apple product since the Mac Plus - I feel fine criticizing them when they underperform (AI, ML, or whatever broken tech runs Siri), or make bad decisions (see developer relations).

    Apple is so far behind in this space, it's no wonder they had to punt with a Google deal.

    Just today, I did a voice search within the tvOS Apple Music app. The most unambiguous name. There is only one.... and yet instead of a "it just works" 'intuitive' result, I get wildly incorrect search results. Sure, there's a box showing exactly what I said in quotes, but it requires me to use the finicky touchpad on the remote to complete a few more clicks. THEY CAN"T SEARCH  THEIR OWN CONTENT LIBRARY!

    For what it’s worth, I couldn’t reproduce that in tvOS 17.4. I get the expected search results.

    Or, rather, I could reproduce those search results (Top Hits and the suggested searches, as shown in your photo) by backspacing over “ank Zappa” — leaving just “Fr” …

    So I don’t know why, but it’s not showing you the search results for Frank Zappa in Apple Music, it’s showing you the search results for “Fr” in Apple Music. 

    I’m not saying you don’t have a problem — the John Mayer search you posted above shows the search results for “J” — this Joy Division search shows the search results for “Jo”

    Whatever it is, it’s not reproducible here. I say “Frank Zappa” or “John Mayer” or “Joy Division” and I get the expected results straightaway, no additional clicks. Have you tried posting these on the Apple Support communities? I mean, it’s probably a solvable troubleshooting problem—cache or memory or WiFi or whatever. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple is already being weirdly criticized for an AI effort that hasn't launched yet

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    zenwaves said:
    So, as a 'civilian' consumer - who has owned almost every Apple product since the Mac Plus - I feel fine criticizing them when they underperform (AI, ML, or whatever broken tech runs Siri), or make bad decisions (see developer relations).

    Apple is so far behind in this space, it's no wonder they had to punt with a Google deal.

    Just today, I did a voice search within the tvOS Apple Music app. The most unambiguous name. There is only one.... and yet instead of a "it just works" 'intuitive' result, I get wildly incorrect search results. Sure, there's a box showing exactly what I said in quotes, but it requires me to use the finicky touchpad on the remote to complete a few more clicks. THEY CAN"T SEARCH  THEIR OWN CONTENT LIBRARY!

    For what it’s worth, I couldn’t reproduce that in tvOS 17.4. I get the expected search results.

    Or, rather, I could reproduce those search results (Top Hits and the suggested searches, as shown in your photo) by backspacing over “ank Zappa” — leaving just “Fr” …

    So I don’t know why, but it’s not showing you the search results for Frank Zappa in Apple Music, it’s showing you the search results for “Fr” in Apple Music. 
    danoxwatto_cobra

  • Thunderbolt 5 vs Thunderbolt 4 -- everything you need to know

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    tht said:
    tenthousandthings said:
    I may have missed this in the article, but as I understand it, the USB/Thunderbolt controller is built into the SoC silicon. For M3, that is a USB4/Thunderbolt 4 controller. So Thunderbolt 5 seems very unlikely for M3.

    More likely M4 Pro/Max in June 2025 with Thunderbolt 5, and new displays when the Studio and Pro launch. 
    The Mac Studio and Mac mini is the last Macs to still get their M3 updates. Not many M3 models left before the M4 cycle starts. ;)

    If they want to, they can put TB5 into an M3 Ultra Mac Studio by connecting a TB5 controller onto 4 lanes of PCIe 4. Intel's TB controllers typically have 2 ports on one TB bus, and if the same for TB5, a Mac Studio with M3 Ultra could have 2 TB5 ports. Enough to drive two 6K monitors at 60 Hz or one 6K XDR at 120 Hz. That's like $10k in monitors alone, assuming Apple updates the XDR. Or two 8K monitors at 60 Hz might be doable in the 120 gbit/s mode, need to do the math.

    Narrow market. 240 to 360 Hz 4K gamers. Apple's market of 5K to 6K buyers who want 120 Hz.
    I wasn’t aware of this, but the M2 Mini is an example of Apple being able to adjust the USB4/Thunderbolt controller in the SoC. The M2 Air SoC, for example, only supports Thunderbolt 3, but the M2 Mini SoC supports Thunderbolt 4. 
    watto_cobra

  • Thunderbolt 5 vs Thunderbolt 4 -- everything you need to know

    tenthousandthingstenthousandthings
    I may have missed this in the article, but as I understand it, the USB/Thunderbolt controller is built into the SoC silicon. For M3, that is a USB4/Thunderbolt 4 controller. So Thunderbolt 5 seems very unlikely for M3.

    More likely M4 Pro/Max in June 2025 with Thunderbolt 5, and new displays when the Studio and Pro launch. 
    mizhouwatto_cobra