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  • Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari browser alongside new operating systems

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    Please can we get more contrast of the active tab vs the inactive tabs.  And offer the option of two line deep tab text description for when you have a lot of tabs and they are too narrow to read the text. Also have a high contrast color to signify if a tab has media/sound playing. 

    Give us an option of the cursor color with control on the page (not in settings).  Then when in dark mode or if App or web page has light type on a dark background, we can see the cursor.  Currently dark mode on iPad has a blue cursor against black.  With small type, the cursor disappears. 
    Offer all these options as an interface button in the ellipsis… menu.  

    Fix the annoying phenomenon of when tapping in url field that while it’s okay to have whole url selected, make it easy to tap where you want to insert the cursor.  It’s currently difficult to deselect the whole url. 

    When in grid view of pages, have screen view of webpage preserved over time, not disappearing when is dormant for a while. 

    Offer these web page previews as thumbnails in the bookmarks that grow in size if you have the cursor over them.  When AI is implemented, have brief summaries of web page pop up when hovering over bookmarks.  Offer an option for bookmark page to enlarge and have discernible thumbnails of webpage.  
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  • New iPad Pro rumored to debut with M4 chip

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    tht said:
    I'm not a fan of chatbots, so, an M4 SoC with more NPU performance is not big deal to me. But, this 2024 iPad Pro is getting more expensive as we get closer to May 7.  :D
    $3000 for an optioned out iPad Pro 13? For a model with 4 TB storage, 24 GB RAM, cellular and nano-texture? I will be getting whatever option offers the most RAM. The keyboard accessory is going to be expensive!
    I don’t think Apple will be solely focused on Chatbots.   It’s ML/AI will be focused on user experience. There are so many uses for ML/AI other than Chatbots. Eg. Coding assistance will be big at first. Having capabilities for Siri to do sequenced requests, with data onboard or over local network, already in compressed format on device, so Siri can smartly handle requests that involve multiple Apple App requests and including third party Apps as they get updated to support tieing in to other Apps.  Alternate views of the file system—a smart file stem interface you can customize.  There is a lot that could be done for accessibility features for individuals with any of a variety of impairments.

    Health and Fitness could benefit greatly from ML/AI.  I see no end of uses other than Chatbots, although Chatbots with licensed data would be refreshing with authors, artists and any originators of the data getting compensated.
    Automated (smart) footnotes comes to mind as a much better Chatbots creating content derived from other creators.

    The ecosystem of multiple devices  owned by a user could afford having the device eg. Mac, with the most memory and storage that could house local data, compressed in a new tighter compression tailored for ML/AI retrieval and interpretation available over your local Wi-Fi for smaller devices like the Apple Watch, AirPods, even the iPhone.  
    Distributed computing could be another advantage for users with multiple devices.  Privacy protected—✅. 

    Apple’s large installed user base of users with multiple devices will be a competitive edge.  And it will be motivating for single device users to venture to more devices.  iPhone only users could see an advantage to switch to/add Macs and iPads.
    Alex1N

  • New iPad Pro rumored to debut with M4 chip

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    nubus said:
    It doesn't make sense to ship any AI product before WWDC. There is no new iPadOS/AI to make use of that new AI power.
    Even worse for Air as it will be obsolete on arrival.

    Launching M4 now will make MBA M3 "the last student computer without AI". It is, but Apple shouldn't put back-to-school sales at risk.
    Same for iPhone. We're 4-5 months from next gen. No way that Apple will go full Osborne and kill all shipping products now without new products.

    WWDC should be XCode AI + frameworks using very limited memory + the message that everything is possible with 18 TOPS and 6-8 GB as that is A16/M3.
    A18/A18 Pro/M4 can deliver a new level of performance but iPhone has to be first.
    Re WWDC and need for a new iOS with new AI— wouldn’t the new AI need new hardware to have that ML/AI capability?  And developers need that hardware in hand to try the new code at WWDC.  (I’m finding myself starting to see a logic in this rumor being true)

    The recent Air would still perform its expected functions.  In the future, iPads may start to compete favorably with the MB Air and even the Mini, albeit with the iOS file system.  Perhaps the iPadOS file system interface will finally get easier to use, closer to the Mac OS file system in appearance and use. 

    Think back to a decade ago when Apple derided a toaster fridge (touch Mac).  Apple has a history of saying something will never happen to kind of kill the idea until it’s ready. To paraphrase Steve Jobs re iPhone: “Pen/stylus/pencil? No way, you can use the best device: your fingers.”  And the pencil came forth years later —on a horizontal surface, the iPad.  
    Paraphrasing again: Touch Mac?—“who would want to reach up to a vertical screen and tire their arm?”   I’m going to guess some more Mac features will come to iOS and iPad (horizontal surface) before vice-versa. And to me a more readable iPadOS file system would be first up. 

    While I think this M4 iPad rumor is unlikely and hoping it’s true, Apple has had “eating its own” (or full Osborne-ing) in its DNA since Steve Jobs came back in 1997. 

    Regarding memory, I’m in some agreement, although A16 might be a stretch considering Apple has talked of on device extension of ML/AI. While already having some on device ML/AI such as predictive text, it will take more specialized memory registers and GPU and Neural cores than currently exist. 
    Then again with rumors of Apple designing its own server silicon, perhaps on device is not absolutist in nature, but used more-so than other companies for privacy as well as applying ML to your personal style and preferences, while Apple having cloud AI as well.  That would also fit with rumors of searching for a partnership with in a cloud based AI company or scheme.

    tmayAlex1N

  • New iPad Pro rumored to debut with M4 chip

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    narwhal said:
    Qualcomm and Microsoft will debut Snapdragon X Elite Windows laptops in May that they claim match the specs of a base model M3. I suspect Apple wants to release a faster iPad before then to take a bit of wind from their sails. CBv 
    I doubt Apple could have based a surprise like this on recent public information of Qualcomm and Microsoft news or even ‘insider’ hunches of those plans. 

    The  Apple Silicon chips may take two years to design the chip/package while working with TSMC engineers and planners to know when production quantities will reach critical mass necessary for a product release. Then there’s designing the iPad (in parallel to chip ramp up, as well as after test chips are available to test the new chip in the new iPad design, testing sequences of revisions etc.— prior to start of iPad production and assembly one or two months ago to announce May 9 and release prior to WWDC opening. (So developers can try new software tools on the new AI functionality). 

    It would be a major feat of secrecy to have this rumor only drop now.

    And I hope that’s the case.  It would change the yearly sales pattern, increasing/boosting iPad sales quite significantly. 

    Apple would get a lot of attention if this happens, which only spurs further sales—a virtuous circle.  It’ll help the stock price as well. 

    But it’s such a difficult feat—so while I won’t count on it, I sure have my fingers crossed. However unlikely, I want this to be true.  
    Alex1N

  • 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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