timmillea

I am dyslexic. When I was an academic, forever having to write papers for publication, I relied heavily on others to proof-read my papers. I am hoping that this update will take their place. Common errors I make, apart from not being able to spell longer words, are putting two or three letters and even words in the wrong order, missing out words because my mind is already on the next then, when I read it, I cannot see the errors but merely read what I intended to write. Of course simple spell-checking catches most of the letter order errors but not when the mistake is also a correct word! Grammar checking is also useful but not infallible and missing out a word such as "not" completely changes the meaning of what I wrote. I hope Apple will add a dyslexic mode in future. 

To make the Mac forever more 'iPhone' is a terrible mistake. It makes the Mac harder to use and makes it more and more redundant. If I wanted an iPhone as my main computing device, I would just use my iPhone! The Mac should have distinct modus operandi. 

I absolutely hate the new System Settings in Mac OS. I feel abused by them. Safari has gone downhill by not working correctly with many sites and if they interfere with Calculator, I may abandon Mac for good. None of these changes have been in right direction. Where is the Mac team when you need them?

It makes perfect sense to me. Apple is the company that taught Intel that performance per Watt was more important than performance. If Apple can obtain one year's plus supply exclusively of the 2nM chips, they can go places that no competitor can follow. Of course it won't be an 'exclusive contract', that would fall foul of the regulators, but if Apple orders more than can possibly be produced, it is tantamount to the same thing. 

One use-case missed - I bought an old 12.9" iPad Pro (2nd Gen) with 'cellular' to use with Navionics charts on a yacht at sea. Even the latest 'chart plotters' do not have a screen as large or with as much resolution and cost over ten times as much. Built-in GPS and low computational requirements for navigating make it perfectly suited. Plus it does all the other iPad uses like email, web browsing, VoiP calls, music via Bluetooth etc.. You can get waterproof cases and mounts for use in the cockpit but really, it is better kept at the chart table, permanently plugged in and charged. 

"what Apple calls "machine learning" and the rest of the industry shortens to "AI,""

Apple is right here. Artificial intelligence is far broader than machine learning, broadly summarised as 'the simulation of successful, external human behaviour'. Neural networks are one tiny tool in the vast field of AI. Machine learning lies in the sub-field of AI classed as 'sub-symbolic techniques', along with evolutionary algorithms (e.g. genetic algorithms). Most AI is symbolic and nothing to do with machine learning.