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After years of rumors, Apple now has a production prototype iPhone fold
Apple is releasing the iPhone fold this time.Wesley_Hilliard said:Ok, let's cool it. It's a rumor about a foldable that's been "months away" since 2019. We'll see what happens, but I'm still not holding my breath.
my reasoning:
Apple went out of there way to create an iPhone Air just so that the rest of its iPhone line doesn’t look chunky when the iPhone fold shows up, the iPhone fold will always look thinner it’s 2x as big as the standard iPhone allowing for it to be thinner. We all know Apple just cares about aesthetics and a
product appearances. Next year Apple can come out with an iPhone air fold justifying the high price tag, that iPhone air will open the door for.
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Google wants Gemini AI deal with Apple by mid-2025
What you’re saying, is exactly what people said about most major revolutionary tech. About the internet and so on. AI is actually very helpful, if asked the right prompt. AI makes for a great assistant at this stage. Do research, get help with meal planning, help with resumes and aspects of job searches. Helps with comparison shopping when asked the right prompts. If used correctly, it can help people utilize there time better.Wesley_Hilliard said:
What, you don't believe the grifters?DAalseth said:
Why?Steve Humiston said:DAalseth said:My systems are Google Free. This isn’t a way to get me excited about Apple Intelligence.
Nothing wrong with that.. but you should be excited about AI, if you like technology... and right now Apple Intelligence is the like the Zune of AI
I’m not being snarky I honestly want to know what it would do for me. So far I’ve seen writing tools that will revise my work to remove my voice and style. I’ve seen art tools that make things that are far worse than what I create already. I have not seen anything that makes me think, “Yeah I really want my phone to be able to do that.” The articles here and elsewhere have not sold me on it.
Honest question: Why do I want AI, from Apple or anyone?
The poorly named "AI" that has been overhyped by terrible companies is actually a decent technology set. It will be *everywhere* eventually, but not in a flashy marketing way. It's going to be more like revolutionizing the way cars burn fuel so they are more efficient. Data gathering, processing, and presentation all benefit from LLMs to an extent, as long as you limit the dataset. Get too big and hallucination rates increase by magnitudes.
So no, there's really no real consumer use cases and likely won't ever be. AI is inherently a boring autocomplete machine that shouldn't even be marketed. Just look at Apple. Word processing and summaries? Yep, that's the best use of the technology. Apple Health data parsing? Also great for users, just not hugely marketable.
Altman tried to make advanced Excel spreadsheet parsing look sexy by saying it'll overturn democracy and end the need to work. The hype cycle is nearing its end and AI will soon fade into a background technology where it should have been all along.Wesley_Hilliard said:
What, you don't believe the grifters?DAalseth said:
Why?Steve Humiston said:DAalseth said:My systems are Google Free. This isn’t a way to get me excited about Apple Intelligence.
Nothing wrong with that.. but you should be excited about AI, if you like technology... and right now Apple Intelligence is the like the Zune of AI
I’m not being snarky I honestly want to know what it would do for me. So far I’ve seen writing tools that will revise my work to remove my voice and style. I’ve seen art tools that make things that are far worse than what I create already. I have not seen anything that makes me think, “Yeah I really want my phone to be able to do that.” The articles here and elsewhere have not sold me on it.
Honest question: Why do I want AI, from Apple or anyone?
The poorly named "AI" that has been overhyped by terrible companies is actually a decent technology set. It will be *everywhere* eventually, but not in a flashy marketing way. It's going to be more like revolutionizing the way cars burn fuel so they are more efficient. Data gathering, processing, and presentation all benefit from LLMs to an extent, as long as you limit the dataset. Get too big and hallucination rates increase by magnitudes.
So no, there's really no real consumer use cases and likely won't ever be. AI is inherently a boring autocomplete machine that shouldn't even be marketed. Just look at Apple. Word processing and summaries? Yep, that's the best use of the technology. Apple Health data parsing? Also great for users, just not hugely marketable.
Altman tried to make advanced Excel spreadsheet parsing look sexy by saying it'll overturn democracy and end the need to work. The hype cycle is nearing its end and AI will soon fade into a background technology where it should have been all along
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Tim Cook teases Feb. 19 launch of what is probably the new iPhone SE
Crazy theory. lol what if Apple is buying TikTok lol what better company to be the face to quell privacy issues. Food for thought. But probably unlikely. -
Tim Cook teases Feb. 19 launch of what is probably the new iPhone SE
I don’t think this will be iPhone SE, that’s already a member of the family and it’s just an update and/or redesign. It’s probably a potential preview of a new device. This is around the time they teased the Apple Watch in 2014, I think that was in march or April. Maybe Apple is launching iPhone fold as its own category. I could fill a consumer void. I’m sure there are a decent amount of people who would purchase an iPhone fold, instead of an iPhone or an iPad mini. I know I would. I don’t need an iPad all the time but I could buy an iPhone fold that allows me to have an iPad mini when I need one.
