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  • New study reveals where the Apple Watch gets fitness data right -- and wrong

    looplessloopless
    Well, "calories burned" was always going to be a "best guess". More to the point the researchers should be doing the same analysis on watches from Garmin, Samsung etc as well.

    I can see how this will morph into an Apple-bashing series of articles about how inaccurate the Apple Watch is without the background that all these devices can only make a rough estimate.  I wonder if a lawsuit will follow...
    williamlondon

  • Apple Pay increasing in popularity online as shoppers seek speed & security

    looplessloopless
    hmlongco said:
    "That privacy-first approach has become a selling point...."

    More security-first than privacy-first, from my perspective. Every site I share a credit card number with multiplies the chances my card number and information will be stolen in a data breach.

    And by using Apple Pay, I also decrease the chances of my purchase data being shared and cross-matched by my credit card number.
    Exactly, if you use Apple Pay they  do not share your CC number with the site. So you cannot be tracked.


    "Apple Pay does not share your actual credit card number with the merchant when making a purchase on a website. Instead, a temporary, unique Device Account Number (DAN) is used for the transaction. This DAN is generated and stored on your device, and it is not linked to your actual credit card number. " 

    XedJavert24601chiawatto_cobra

  • Apple's next-generation 'CarPlay Ultra' is finally here

    looplessloopless
    I think CarPlay Ultra took so long as manufacturers want to be able to punch through with their own branding and Apple had to rethink how that works while still keeping the clean Apple design in the display. Also consider the huge variety of car display systems - all different resolutions, driven by differing NVIDIA chips ( or AMD or ???), that Apple has no control over. If they have pulled this off it's pretty amazing. 
    watto_cobra

  • New report contradicts Tim Cook's remarks about iPhone panic buying

    looplessloopless
    Tim Cook has details about when/where every iPhone was sold and access to amazing data analysis tools.
    He **can't** lie about this. He has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders and he could be sued for giving false or misleading information.
    williamlondonjrfunkdanoxwatto_cobra

  • Apple turns to Anthropic to speed up coding & fix buggy tools

    looplessloopless
    If you are a software developer these days you have to use AI - I use it every day and it is a huge productivity boost. Using an AI assistant beats having to interact with snarky people on stack exchange.
    Apple wants to use AI for coding - this has nothing directly to do with user facing AI they are developing for iOS etc. So of course they would look to outside AI tools to embed in Xcode. So trying to conflate that decision with some sort of change of AI focus is a stretch.
    watto_cobra