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  • iPhone 16 won't be compelling and Apple will get hurt because of it, says Kuo

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    avon b7 said:

    It seems clear now that Apple was caught on the back foot with AI.

    What are you basing this on?

    Apple has a lot of AI hiding in plain sight. Just because they aren’t like the rest of the market with their “me too” attitude about chatgpt doesn’t mean they don’t have AI already in place and waiting for bigger deployment. 

    Kuo doesn’t have a lot to go on. His best information is a good 3-4 levels away in the supply chain and not someone inside Apple
    because they’ve gotten good at plugging leaks. 

    Once you see the VP in person, you’ll get a better idea on the path Apple is going to take on AI and how it’s going to change the public’s perception of AI and VR compared to what’s available. 
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  • References to 'homeOS' resurface in tvOS 17.4 beta

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    It will be nice to see what happens now that Craig Federighi is in charge of Homekit. 
    There’s a lot of work to do, especially after the damage iOS 17 has done to a lot of people’s homekit setups. 

    With how backwards HomeKit has devolved since iOS 17, I’m betting a rewritten system is in the works and iOS 17 is a stopgap. 
    I’m hoping that a new HomeKit with a better interface, will handle devices with more control and without the need of third party apps to setup devices and thus making it more secure for the homeowner. They’re probably also working with the Siri team to make Siri much more useable when using it with a homepod, or AppleTV.  There’s nothing more infuriating than having Siri ask you to ask it again what you wanted from your iPhone. Why can’t you just dictate the web query results instead of making me read it on my iPhone?
     
    I just hope it makes its debut soon. I’m tired of a homepod in another room responding to my query when one which is right in front of me stays silent. 



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  • After years off Apple's App Store, 'Fortnite' will reappear in the EU

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    Fortnite is so 2019. The kids have moved on. 
    Tim is gonna need a new grift. 
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  • Apple Vision Pro hands-on roundup: Weighty with a clunky virtual keyboard, but great overa...

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    mikethemartian said:
    Low felt "weighed down by the device" after 15 minutes, and was in pain five minutes later.

    Seems like a probable liability issue if users start complaining about pain.
    You just described the subplot of Steve Martin’s “The Jerk”. 
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  • Microsoft briefly edged out Apple as the most valuable company in the US

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    nubus said:
    geekmee said:
    While Apple has done it by introducing new technology.
    Apple is introducing Vision Pro next month, while Microsoft has renamed Office.
    Last year Apple relaunched the HomePod, didn't upgrade a single iPad, gave us MBA 15" with features from the 2022 13" - didn't even bother to give it Wifi 6E. Microsoft added AI to products while M3 didn't improve on the Neural Engine. The market is pretty smart this time. While the engineers in Cupertino are having neck pain from Vision Pro the Redmond team is doing LLM AI.

    What, you think all of Apple was working on VP?

    They do have a LLM team and from what I’ve heard, they have been making products, most of them are internally, like the program that retail uses to grade devices for trade ins. It’s not determined by humans anymore over the condition of the device. The salesperson uses their device to scan temporary pictures of the front and back and it comes back with a price. From what I saw when the iPhone 15 came out, it was pretty much on the money for analyzing the condition and determining the trade in value. When I asked the salesperson what happens if it’s wrong, she told me they just run it again and most of the time it resolves the misquote. It even gave value for a damaged device after another salesperson told his customer their damaged phone wasn’t worth anything. 

    LLM AI is also used in the camera app along with the LiDAR sensor to help take better pictures faster and determining where exactly your focal point is. 

    The reason why you think they’re not doing anything is because they’re not jumping on the chatGPT bandwagon like everyone else is. 
    It’s the new buzzword since B2B. 
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