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  • Apple health study proves anybody can run a marathon -- given enough time

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    Less than 90 days to complete a marathon? S l o w
    Article quote:
    “This time using specifically data from April 2023, they found that half of participants would run or walk 26.2 miles in 90 days or fewer.” [of training]

    I’m not sure if you’re serious in your statement or being facetious.   I’d agree that the article needs an edit to make clear meaning of what is done in 90 days. It sounds like what you said, it takes 90 days to complete the distance of a marathon.  In 90 days one has to sleep and eat every day among other bodily functions. 

    I believe the study actually showed that training vigorously nearly every day for 3 months produced results of the ability to complete a marathon event.  

    I wish the age and health of the cohort was revealed in the reporting.   I don’t think it would apply to folks in my late 70’s age group. In my age group it might take a year or more of training to be able to complete a marathon event.  

    I would not run that distance as it is too hard on the spine after aging with normal wear and tear and decline of protein repair at this age. Swimming is a better sport for less wear and tear on joints and connective tissue. 

    At a younger age of 55 yrs old, I did compete at a very fast pace.  Heck, we have professional athletes competing into their 40’s.  
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  • Apple has a solution to ghost touch issue on Apple Watch models

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    My best guess is that the hand (fist, thumb to forefinger touch gesture )accessibility features involve ML of movements sensed may be occasionally picking up a gesture even though it’s not intended.  My Ultra1 surprises me by starting up a timer or stopwatch and showing it. 

    Again, my best guess is Siri often hearing me ask to set a timer for various tasks and ML accidentally learning a hand gesture and starting it with that gesture. Maybe it is collecting data for ML for a future feature but is so sensitive that it’s working prematurely. 

    There are many tendons that run through the wrist to control finger and hand movement.  
    Not every person’s wrist subtle movements will be the same to ‘telegraph’ what are internal tendons that a finger or fist cause to move in a way the watch can use for prediction of a gesture. 

    Also, Apple may be collecting anonymized data for algorithms to use in ML. That then can be put in updates for personal ML that stays private on your watch.  

    I’m just winging it here in what might be going wrong occasionally as Apple continues to improve gesture sensitivity and acquire new gestures for future releases.   



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  • Apple teases more Immersive Video dinosaurs for Apple Vision Pro coming soon

    jellybellyjellybelly
    nubus said:
    CodeSpyder said:
    What else ya got...
    Seems a 6 min. dino reel every 2 months is the content strategy for AVP.
    It doesn’t seem like that to me. 
    Similar to such a new product category, we’ll see the uptick in pace as third party content providers get up to speed and as Apple gets still more developers and providers on board.  
    8k stereo cameras made for VP content are being produced in only very small quantities at this point and Apple is no doubt recruiting animation software developers to bring production tools to creators. 

    Software updates will bring more capabilities.  We haven’t even had a WWDC yet that will have tons of training on App and content development.    

    For now, it’s still in the phase of developing market demand.  
    See, it’s working—you’re demanding more content and longer content, albeit with cynicism or sarcasm that is a bit tiring to me and many more who appreciate how much of a huge undertaking this period is. 

    We’re in a ramp up period.  It always happens with dropping a cutting edge technology.  
    99.99% of the public hasn’t even tried out the Vision Pro yet.  You’re one of the fortunate ones if you’re impatient because you already want more. 
    Patience, young Padawan. (sp?)
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  • Capturing spatial video: Apple Vision Pro vs iPhone 15 Pro

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    rikipedia said:
    You don't say much about video playback. Who would want to watch their spatial videos on an iPhone? Can you copy video files created by an iPhone and play them back on a Vision Pro device? And are the results almost good enough to enjoy as if they were created on Vision Pro itself? Does Final Cut Pro play nicely with editing spatially-created videos? I realize that I'm asking questions that are beyond the scope of this article (well-written, btw) but I'm dying to know more about Vision Pro as a playback device for spatially created videos.
    iPhone captured spatial video can be viewed on the iPhone as a 2D video with a square aspect ratio.  It looks fine to me on the iPhone. You cannot yet edit for brightness, color and other aspects that could be edited on regular video.
    I don’t know about Final Cut Pro, but editing other than clip beginning and ending (e.g. color, brightness etc.) almost certainly will be coming soon as a new feature set. 
    To view on the Vision Pro is easy. You’ll find it in the Photos App on the VP since it syncs with iCloud like all your Apple devices do. 
    I agree that the article is very well written and is very timely and informative. 
    watto_cobra

  • Wedbush: AI & pent-up iPhone 16 demand outweigh concerns over China sales

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    twolf2919 said:
    With respect to "pent-up demand for iPhone 16", Wedbush made the same claim when justifying their price target before iPhone 15 came out.  I guess a broken clock is going to be right  at least twice a day?  …
    Well, if sales prediction of “picked up demand” last year didn’t come through, then that’s all the more carrying forward for pent-up demand this coming Fall.

    “… twolf2919 also said:
    “20% of Apple's sales come from China alone.  The economic situation there as well as the geopolitical rivalry with the US won't be resolved anytime soon, so I doubt sales there will improve in the near future.  Another poster mentioned India growth offsetting China sales losses.  I don't believe that.  First of all, sales in India are tiny in comparison.  Yes, they are growing nicely, but it'll be years before they approach the sales volume in China.”

    JellyBelly responding to twoIf2919:
    India growth does not have to equal all of China’s sales, it only needs to equal the drop in sales in China.

    JellyBelly comment in general:
    The Titan project was secretive regarding specific technology advances.  What was learned about object recognition and automotive systems will be very valuable as a contribution to Apples’s future application of this tech IP, that’s has been behind a company internal firewall.  While not making a car product, Apple could partner with one or more auto companies to license some of this IP on a non-disclosure basis—or a branded basis—albeit if branded, would require partner pay liability insurance for Apple. 

    The here-to-fore Titan skunkworks/firewalled/hidden tech will be a great addition to Apples AI tech.  
    While considering pundits’ criticism of Apple’s AI technology shortfalls, we have to remember several things:

    1.) Apple has always been reticent to discuss its technology advancements until it’s ready to drop a product using those advancements. 

    2.) Apple likes to under hype new product development until it’s revealed and has a release date.  

    3.) Apple likes to overachieve expectations, letting users discover many features that are not even part of product introductions. 

    4.) Every one of Apple’s, successful products in the last 27 years has been preceded by Apple being criticized for not having an equivalent product in the market to some existing technology.  And then, boom Apple releases a criticized product that brings new unfamiliar features that bring success to the new product within three years—and soon copied in the industry.  And their new product is the one with no equivalent elsewhere the market. 

    5.) Despite Apple’s mention of something in AI coming in the future, its history shows that it will tend to under-hype it—and then let the product or features create their own hype. And Apple also has a history that it doesn’t release products or features until they are ready—or ready to be refined and improved.

    6.) So far, many of Apple’s failures seem to have been opportunities to learn and apply with refinement.














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