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  • Apple's upcoming low-cost MacBook: Colorful and affordable

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    greg.edwards69 said:
    So it's a large ipad, with a fixed keyboard, no touch screen and runs MacOS. It will sell by the bucketload.

    Personally, I'd love to see Apple revisit the 12" MacBook with this processor instead. It was a brilliant design, just hampered by dreadful performance.
    It was definitely laptop (not CPU) perfection - toss it in a bag without worrying about it, easy to open and use anywhere.  I was shocked that the 12" @ 2lbs didn't get an M1 makeover, it would have been the ultimate portable.
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  • Meta wants to upload every photo you have to its cloud to give you AI suggestions

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    Lol, I remember Facebook asking for users email account info and passwords during account creation so they could secretly scan their entire mail history and get information about all of their contacts.  Anyone using a Meta app or service should expect to be the product. Google as well.
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  • Visual Intelligence in iOS 26 makes screenshots useful, not just saved

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    The camera button could be good for this - the screenshot gesture made it look awkward.🤞
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  • Lighter than normal WWDC expected without significant Apple Intelligence upgrades

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    mikethemartian said:
    coolfactor said:
    mikethemartian said:
    I used to enjoy when Steve Jobs would give presentations “live without a net”.

    Steve had backup plans, not to mention very thorough practice sessions. Once, a Mac had froze and he had to switch to a backup one, joking about it with grace.

    (Aside: When will AppleInsider fix this broken forum software? Daily headaches)
    That was what was so great about it. Even with all the preparations things could still and did go wrong and he had the ability to recover. Just because a theater group rehearses thoroughly doesn’t take away from their performance when the show opens. Just because Eddie Van Halen had decades of music experience didn’t take away from his live performances. He didn’t just play a studio tape for the audience.

    OMG, the "infomercial" format has to go. Either do a real conference or just release the content on Monday morning, the  pretending that it's a week-long event when it's just videos is a bit much, especially when other companies are doing live keynotes.  We're so far from WWDC of old - old being just a few years ago.

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  • Tantalizing details of Jony Ive's AI device leak after OpenAI meeting

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    avon b7 said:
    My guess is a thin (very thin?) puck-like device with a thin (very thin?) LED strip around the base.

    Brushed metal (caressible) or glass (lickable). 

    Internal wireless connectivity (no ports) and using mics/speakers from other devices. 

    Cloud processing plus subscription. Bingo! 

    Honesty, the 'sci-fi dream' is what it's always been: AI with an interface of some kind. Ideally voice and a screen. That's it.

    Would a humanoid robot be a plus? Yes for some situations, but if it's going to sell in hundreds of millions, I'll rule that option out.


    Chamfered edges to soften the edges of your AI overlord's noose.  The specifics don't even really matter, It's going to be dystopian given the implied data collection and monitoring of your life.
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