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Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

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Post by jonplackett »

kossTKR wrote: post #137
throwaway202020 wrote: post #102

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Many teams at Apple are pure junk. When Steve Jobs basically fired iCloud folks in public, lot of people thought he went too far but little they knew how bad that team really was and still is. These folks are now center of the Apple universe but can't build a simple app that can efficiently sync the photos on Windows. Other teams are iTunes (one of the worst widely deployed Windows app ever), Apple Music (just look a…

As incredible as it is, the problems extend way beyond just syncing on Windows. Sync works completely randomly on mac between the iPhone and and OSX, - you often have to wait "a long time", and since Apple also has the completely idiotic concept of "everything has to be magic" you never get an estimate, or an error message, or a progress bar, so like everything on a mac, you have to just fiddle, disconnect, reconnect…

Airplay is in the same category - it either works and is great, or just dead in the water and it's tough luck.

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Post by jonplackett »

freehunter wrote: post #168
kossTKR wrote: post #137

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As incredible as it is, the problems extend way beyond just syncing on Windows. Sync works completely randomly on mac between the iPhone and and OSX, - you often have to wait "a long time", and since Apple also has the completely idiotic concept of "everything has to be magic" you never get an estimate, or an error message, or a progress bar, so like everything on a mac, you have to just fiddle, disconnect, reconnect…

Drives me crazy how unreliable all file sharing is on Apple devices. Like you said you can’t rely on iCloud sync, but half the time even AirDrop doesn’t work. Two devices sitting next to each other and AirDrop shows up on one but not the other. I put them both in Airplane mode and then back on, and now neither of them shows up. Oh wait now it works on one again, but again not the one I need to send from .

I actually meant airdrop in my comment above (although it does apply to airplay too) it applies to everything Apple does really.

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Post by masklinn »

IndySun wrote: post #210
masklinn wrote: post #123

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The weird part is in my experience their "swift" input works miles better than the regular tapping. It's truly odd. Tapping I have to correct the phone all the time, while using swift (with the same keyboard!) I quite rarely do.

Is 'swift' 'swipe to type'? Yes, I find swipe to type surprisingly more efficient than the 21st century's first attempt of tapping on glass.

Yes, it's the swiping keyboard, sorry didn't quite remember the term.

Re: Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

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Post by SilasX »

mthoms wrote: post #209
SilasX wrote: post #208

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Pointing out tautologies that only sound convincing because of misleading phrases, isn't interesting.

You aren't the gatekeeper of what can and can't be considered interesting. FWIW, your comment above (about standards) was also mildly interesting to me. I hadn't really given the phrase much thought. There was no need to be rude about it though.

I'm not the gatekeeper, no, but I can alert you to when you're being duped by someone parroting nonsense.

Re: Why Apple believes it’s an AI leader–and why it says critics have it all wrong

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Post by mthoms »

SilasX wrote: post #214
mthoms wrote: post #209

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You aren't the gatekeeper of what can and can't be considered interesting. FWIW, your comment above (about standards) was also mildly interesting to me. I hadn't really given the phrase much thought. There was no need to be rude about it though.

I'm not the gatekeeper, no, but I can alert you to when you're being duped by someone parroting nonsense.

Great! Just try to do it without being condescending (especially when the comment you're replying to is completely innocuous).

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Post by andybak »

denzil_correa wrote: post #140
andybak wrote: post #136

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Are you saying this is an unsolvable conundrum? You can't have good autocorrection with massive privacy violations? I'm not sure I believe that.

> I'm not sure I believe that. So, what would make you believe it?

Someone making a cogent argument in favour of it?

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Post by IndySun »

masklinn wrote: post #213
IndySun wrote: post #210

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Is 'swift' 'swipe to type'? Yes, I find swipe to type surprisingly more efficient than the 21st century's first attempt of tapping on glass.

Yes, it's the swiping keyboard, sorry didn't quite remember the term.

I got it wrong too. It's Slide to Type. But we both knew what each other meant, that's the main thing.
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