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  • Review: The iPhone XS Max is what Apple has always promised the iPhone could be

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    My XS arrived yesterday... It is wicked fast [noticably] at everything I tried.  I set it up as a new phone (no FaceID,or password, no user accounts) so the grandkids can play with it for a few days.

    One other thing that really impressed me is the packaging.  The iPhone XS box in not sealed in a cellophane wrapper -- rather it has a pull-tab plastic covering -- no knife needed to open the box.
    philboogie

  • Kuo: Apple unlikely to integrate rear-facing 3D sensor in 2019 iPhone

    dick applebaumdick applebaum
    Here's an example of what can be done with this....  It is a third-party offering which uses [older] tech developed by PrimeSense (acquired by Apple in 2013).


    hcrefugeenetrox

  • Apple hits $1 trillion market cap, the first US company ever to hit milestone [u]

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    I am verklempt. 

    Consider that the company was nearly bankrupt 20 years ago. Jobs is surely smiling up there today. 
    I think he may have been an atheist or possibly a Buddhist...

    UPDATE:  Buddhist

    Das ist nicht "Buddhist"

    verklempt | fərˈklemt | 

    adjective North American informal overcome with emotion: she was all verklempt earlier this week over her latest split from her husband. 

    ORIGIN from Yiddish farklempt, from German verklemmt, literally ‘pinched, squeezed’.
    jony0

  • Defending Tim Cook: Why Apple remains in good hands

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    That top photo is like a Cook Will Kill You and Everything You Hold Dear look. It kind of reminds me of the some of the grimaces I see men doing in 50th anniversary photos; the women in those are generally beaming cuz they know they've won.
    That's the look that your mom gave you when you were misbehaving -- it stopped you in your tracks, nothing was said or needed to be said.   Something like this:



    The look is called the Whammy:

    Evil-Eye Fleegle, an otherwise petty zoot-suited hood, apparently standing only four and a half feet tall and living in Brooklyn NY,  has one unique ability which was taught to him by his mother.

    When he concentrates a destructive beam shots from one of his eyeballs. 

    Called by him a “Whammy” it has three settings:

    A single whammy can knock a dozen men unconscious for a day, a double whammy can make the stone head of Teddy Roosevelt on mount Rushmore weep, and the triple whammy can melt a battle ship.

    Anything more powerful than a single whammy however tires out Fleegle for the rest of the day, or the rest of the week in the case of a triple. 

    The dreaded quadruple whammy, which only Fleegle’s mother can perform, is said to be to horrible to contemplate.     


    SpamSandwichmwhiteking editor the grateGG1AppleExposed

  • Apple-owned FoundationDB open sources the core technology at the heart of iCloud

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    mattinoz said:
    mattinoz said:
    It’d be great if iCloud Drive indexed the contents of your files so you could, you know, actually search through them while on the go, instead of having to go back to your Mac to use Spotlight on local machine’s copy of them…
    Even better if we had our own private siri instance that could then use this index as starting point then go out to other sources as needed.
    What do you need a private Siri instance for — actually aren’t all Siri instances private?

    No matter, FDBs indexing would be excellent for analyzing/searching Siri queries.
    So Siri and I could have a conversation and it be private between us. Yet I could delete with confidence down the track and know Siri can't use that information outside. Building confidence about what information I can share. So more like the relationship you have with an assistant.  I mean If I'm cooking steak I want siri to understand and set up timers for as I go then remember if for next time, including maybe tweaking the timing for next time by telling siri 1/2 hour later while washing up that steak was slightly over/under. Over time build up lots of shorthand between us, even surface information for me without being asked.

    The privacy of current Siri the learning and features Siri is criticized for not having.
    If FoundationDB could run on device then that store could sync to my devices and never need to be on Apple's servers or could just be there encrypted.
    It is likely that Siri uses a FDB database on Apple servers to search for binary sound matches to determine what you are asking Siri to do.  

    I think that Siri/FDB could be used in a similar way on your iPhone using a database local to the iPhone — and satisfy privacy requirements... if Apple chooses to implement it that way.  

    AFAICT, the A11 chip with 6 cores and 256GB has enough power to do the job.


    https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/benchmarking.html

    Without getting too far into the weeds, the above benchmark was done on a single Intel core.  They ran 100 parallel tasks, each doing 1,000-key range-reads (searches) resolving 3.6 million keys per second.  *

    A similar process could be used for music matches (Shazam?), face matchings (Photos) or other AI and search optimization.

    It appears likely that an A11 chip could resolve thousands of keys/second. 


    * It should be noted that, for performance reasons, FDB has a default 100KB maximum for values in its ordered key/value core db.  100KB, likely isn't large enough to hold large sound or image values which may be in the range of 5MB. The developer can mitigate this by splitting the large value over multiple keys -- where each successive key stores the next block of the value.
     
    mattinoz