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  • Party's over: Apple tries to shrink costs of Apple TV+ productions

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    CarmB said:
    At the least, if you end a season with a cliffhanger, put out one or two more episode to allow for the story to be completed properly. 
    [cough]Shantaram[/cough]

    Personally, I think Apple has done better than most in this regard, but at the same time, recent history shows otherwise.

    If I can no longer trust that Apple won't finish out their series, I have no reason to watch and get "invested." Constellation certainly wasn't great, but again, we never would have started watching it knowing it was going to be discontinued. If there was some sort of conclusion on the docket, I'd be fine with it - even if it wasn't somehow one of the greatest conclusions to a series ever...

    With all the news about budgets, it's clear that Foundation certainly has the potential to REALLY upset me in that regard.

    Also, since people have mentioned being "outliers," I'll just add that I'm also eagerly awaiting a conclusion to Invasion.
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  • Apple is already being weirdly criticized for an AI effort that hasn't launched yet

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    Personally, I'd rather see Apple develop its own internal AI.

    BUT, this is probably a smart move. By all counts, you're going to see an Apple front end to this, and when that front end AI cannot generate an acceptable reply, it will punt to Gemini... or possibly something else. It would seem this is similar to their search deal: Google is the default but users can replace it with something else.

    All this to say: Apple gets Google dollars for putting it in as a default, and it also avoids any antitrust issues (for Apple anyway.)

    Don't get me wrong: I think Gemini is a horrible product, so if I cannot swap out the backend for something else, I cannot see me ever using (or at least trusting) it. But strictly from an anti-trust perspective, this makes sense to me.
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  • Apple rolls out HomePod software version 17.1.1

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    And the problem with this is that it messes with HomeKit. Now, because all your HomePods will have a “later” version than your AppleTV’s they will be given a higher priority when selecting a home hub. If that’s not ideal for your situation, too bad…
    williamlondon

  • Apple rolls out third developer beta of tvOS 17.1

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    Personally, I’m looking forward to this update in hopes it fixes all the HKSV issues with it.

    Other than that, 17.0 has been pretty good.

    Unfortunately, I use my Apple TVs quite a bit for HKSV…
    williamlondon

  • What's really going on with Apple's modem chip efforts?

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    "over its head with it's iPhone modem efforts"

    Close. The first "its" is correct.
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