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  • New leaked illustrations claim Apple Watch X has a bigger screen than Apple Watch Ultra

    saareksaarek
    If there is a significant upgrade this year I might well upgrade my Series 6. If they stick with the same rough design that came with the Series 4 I’ll wait another year as my existing watch still does everything I need it too.

    Fingers crossed for a meaningfully bigger battery. I love to leave my iPhone at home and my Series 6 drains so quickly on cellular.
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  • iOS 18 dramatically accelerates iPhone 15 Pro Max neural processing

    saareksaarek
    I wonder how much faster the iPhone 14 Pro Max processing will be.

    Still feel sad for all those poor people who bought the iPhone 15 just to find out that their phone is basically shit out of luck with the newer features of the next iOS.

    I don’t think I’ve ever known Apple deliberately fuck over people with a product that’s only 9 months old and still being sold as the latest model before.
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  • WWDC unlikely to see debuts of any new hardware at all

    saareksaarek
    kiwimachead said:
    Why do PC makers have to constantly release new product? Sony by comparison have released 5 PlayStation models in 29 years. It’s become as wasteful as fast fashion despite all the bullshit talk of recycling materials etc. The irony is of course that Apple products have a really long service life if you’re not a power user. I have had 3 Macs since 1999; ‘99 Tangerine iBook, 2005 iMac G5, 2011 MBA. Will be upgrading to an M4 MBP when they’re released this year and see how long I can keep it trucking! 
    Personally I’m happy they release a new version each year. Not because I replace my MacBook Pro and Mac Pro Tower every year, but because when I do decide to upgrade I get a good one. If they only released new Macs every 3-5 years whomever buys one near the end of the generation gets screwed over.

    My 2019 Mac Pro is ready for a move to Apple Silicon. But the current model is just a sad joke. Might have to go Apple Studio route as my need for expansion lanes isn’t that great, but man would I be a day one buyer of an Extreme version of the Mac Pro.
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  • WWDC unlikely to see debuts of any new hardware at all

    saareksaarek
    I was really hoping that they’d release an M4 Extreme version of the Mac Pro. That machine really needs a reason to exist and the current generation doesn’t meet those requirements.
    williamlondonwatto_cobraAlex1Nargonaut

  • Microsoft's Copilot PC and the M3 Mac killer myth

    saareksaarek
    AppleZulu said:
    Microsoft's strength - a large base market of third-party PCs - is also its weakness. Rolling out an on-machine artificial intelligence operating system is made orders of magnitude more difficult when their only control over the hardware is a set of somewhat optional hardware specifications. Even if this AI-based operating system is really pretty good when running on an optimally-designed PC that carefully observes all of the recommended specifications, the implementation across-the-board will trail downward from that. The hardware manufacturers will compete in both directions, with many cutting every possible corner to lower the price of the device, while others will try to push out new bells-and-whistles faster than the Windows design teams can reasonably anticipate them. Both will tend to yield suboptimal user experiences.

    It boggles the mind that still no other major manufacturer has sought to replicate Apple's closed-system design paradigm, with operating system and hardware conceived and implemented as a single, unified thing. This is how Apple is actually the company that repeatedly enters product categories "late," but then flips the whole category on its head by implementing something that's actually well thought out and ultimately desirable and useful to customers. I suppose the ability to start now and be competitive with any sort of new closed-system device is a nearly vertical uphill climb for a competitor, but it's how Apple has made it to where it is now. It will be unsurprising if we one day learn that Apple's shift to in-house silicon from Intel was all about implementing on-device machine-learning and AI. This would mean that for years now, while folks in places like this have heaped snark and criticism on Apple for missing the AI boat and under-powering Siri, etc., Apple has been cruising down a long runway to implement a next-big-thing that will actually fly. Meanwhile, others are alpha-testing on an unsuspecting public things like generative AI chatbots, search and audio/visual media that's of questionable utility and bereft of ethics at its best. 

    So, you know, good luck to Microsoft. Competition can be a good thing. Still, if you only have a dollar to invest in either Microsoft or Apple and this product category is the basis for your decision, you might want to put that dollar towards Apple stock.

    From a computer point of view it would be very difficult.

    You’d need immense financial resources along with a compelling case for users to buy into your ecosystem.

    Google has a bit of a halfway house with their Chromebooks where it’s only partially
    open source. Still, the main selling point is that the majority are super cheap and have effectively canalised the old NetBook sector. Of course this main selling point also means that the majority are just piles of crap ready to be binned within 12-24 months.
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