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  • Apple's iOS 18 AI will be on-device preserving privacy, and not server-side

    tipootipoo
    On-device processes could help eliminate certain controversies found with server-side AI tools. For example, these tools have been known to hallucinate, meaning they make up information confidently. 
     

    Er, location of processing has nothing to do with LLMs hallucinating and confidently giving wrong answers or not. 
    ctt_zhAlex1Nwilliamlondon

  • Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM

    tipootipoo
    Prove it then. Not vs an Intel mac with a chip designed a decade ago, take a latest gen Intel or AMD comparable system with 16GB, and put it through rigorous paces vs an 8GB M3, and see. It says something that Apple is sending reviewers 16 and even 24GB versions despite that comment. 

    If I'm performing an operation on hundreds of thousands of rows of data, they have to be somewhere physically fast, they don't exist in aether. Anything that swaps to SSD has access times in ms, not RAM's ns, one millisecond is 1000000 nanoseconds if anyone needs the reminder so I'm not exaggerating when I say several orders of magnitude slower. Despite techtubers also only looking at peak sequential read speeds you almost never hit real world except in single big file transfer.

    If you need RAM, you need RAM, there's no way around it. Unified is just faster when you share data from CPU to GPU or the other way because of no pool swapping, but otherwise the physicality of RAM remains.

    dewmeOfermuthuk_vanalingamkestralAlex1Ndave haynie

  • Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway

    tipootipoo
    CiaranF said:
    Maybe people are getting pissed off with your prices eh? Your actions on the market then drive up the prices of other smartphone manufacturers cos then they get greedy too. I remember buying my first iPhone 3GS for £299 or £349 back in 2009 or so. Now the same equivalent for me in a Pro Max model is circa £1400. That’s greed too, not inflation. 

    Now you’ve also increased your  One subscription prices globally. Third time in 2-3 years too if you’re outside of the US.  TV is useless, you’ve to pay for most of the non  stuff.  Fitness+ bugs the life out of me cos they’re all on Prozac or something with those fake smiles. iCloud is rubbish compared to Googles offering but I need it. Not much use for Arcade either. 

    Start listening to what your audience wants and will endure instead of telling them what they want or you’ll end up like Nokia. 

    I think this might be a bit circular. Wall Street's need for constant EPS growth means that with iPhone sales plateauing and most hardware lines staying steady, getting more profit per user is the only way to grow that EPS. Higher ASPs, higher margins, loop you into more services etc. 
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  • Signs point to Apple Silicon M3 reveal at 'Scary Fast' event

    tipootipoo
    If this was just the M2 and M2 Pro in the iMac with this slogan, there's going to be so much disappointment lol 

    I hope the M3 family is a bigger gain than A17
    d_2williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple's 'Happy Mac' face gets a spooky makeover for its 'Scary Fast' event

    tipootipoo
    Spooky Finder is a complete vibe, I think it would be fun if the whole nighttime video production leaned into a fun Halloween vibe! 
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