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Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by Sunspark »

extra88 wrote: post #286
Sunspark wrote: post #281

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On the newest iPhone 13 for example these are the video formats supported: "Video formats supported: HEVC, H.264, MPEG‑4 Part 2, and Motion JPEG" If your video is not one of these formats, you're going to be using software decoding which will be done on the CPU and will drain battery more as a consequence. So that means no .MKV decoding in hardware.

.mkv is a container format, not a video codec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska

Still not going to be decoded in hardware on iOS.

Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

post_break wrote: post #265
ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #256

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Making Siri closer to a real A.I. Making an Apple Watch that can actually download sync with an Audible book. And since they have this huge fitness push now, I'd like to be able to set custom Run Walk Run intervals when I do an Apple Running workout on my watch. Being able to set the shutter speed or aperture when taking pictures like Samsung phones can. A better system of defense for robo calls. A built in audio pro…

Damn bro, get out of here with this logic. Cue the Ryan from the office nodding and pointing gif right here. Trying to put a ringtone on an iPhone is hilarious. And the airtag alert burned me so good. I have 4 of them and they are all chirping and alerting on my wife's phone. I'm gonna have to sell them at a loss after they made them so much more annoying.

I'd also like to add someone to a group Text and have a way everyone could agree to give them permission to see the old messages from that group chat. That way it isn't as hard to catch people up or bring them into a group conversation.

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LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #246
defaultname wrote: post #36

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Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected. It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed…

Well, when things like superbowl or similar events are happening the overspill tends to get inacceptable. Rave and rant all you want about it on appleinsiders, mac rumors, or whatever. Regarding the expected (over)hyping, why is that an exuse? It's like the commercials for washing powder/liquid, toothpaste and all the countless other non-sense. In other words a lie , or euphemistic reality distortion field . Who does…

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Post by n8cpdx »

tmccrary55 wrote: post #267
n8cpdx wrote: post #193

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It just seems really weird to assume that switching to Android involves switching to Google services. There were weeks of threads with people discussing which version of Android (Calyx vs graphene, etc) they were going to switch to.

Yeah... walk into a grocery store and ask all of the people using Android if they're using Calyx or graphene.

*all of the people who switched to Android _in protest of Apple's new CSAM system_

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Post by bobbles »

fulafel wrote: post #227
tmccrary55 wrote: post #29

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Especially weird (though understandable) because it's basically "Doesn't scan your device and send the information to a corporation and the government" when Android basically does that everywhere, all the time. But Android does it for profit, Apple does it "for the children."

Citation needed for Android doing this?

https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093...

We invest heavily in fighting child sexual exploitation online and use technology to deter, detect, and remove CSAM from our platforms. This includes automated detection and human review, in addition to relying on reports submitted by our users and third parties such as NGOs, to detect, remove, and report CSAM on our platforms. We deploy hash matching, including YouTube’s CSAI Match, to detect known CSAM. We also deploy machine learning classifiers to discover never-before-seen CSAM, which is then confirmed by our specialist review teams. Using our classifiers, Google created the Content Safety API, which we provide to others to help them prioritize abuse content for human review.

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Post by djrogers »

n8cpdx wrote: post #191
theshrike79 wrote: post #136

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Nothing was going to get scanned on iOS either, unless you had "upload to Apple servers" enabled...

*unless one of the iOS updates surreptitiously re-enabled "upload to Apple servers" as they are notorious for doing...

Citation? As far as I’m aware, this has never once happened.

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Post by djrogers »

ddalex wrote: post #242
Tagbert wrote: post #232

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I have an iPad Pro and would not like to give up FaceID for TouchID. FaceID is much more convenient and reliable. I can see your issue with masks in classrooms during this pandemic, but in other scenarios, that is not an issue. I suspect that the Air with Touch ID is more popular among students due to the price.

Why not both ?

Price.

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Post by tmccrary55 »

n8cpdx wrote: post #294
tmccrary55 wrote: post #267

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Yeah... walk into a grocery store and ask all of the people using Android if they're using Calyx or graphene.

*all of the people who switched to Android _in protest of Apple's new CSAM system_

????

Only on the orange site

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Post by tmccrary55 »

bobbles wrote: post #295
fulafel wrote: post #227

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Citation needed for Android doing this?

https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/1033093... We invest heavily in fighting child sexual exploitation online and use technology to deter, detect, and remove CSAM from our platforms. This includes automated detection and human review, in addition to relying on reports submitted by our users and third parties such as NGOs, to detect, remove, and report CSAM on our platforms. We deploy hash matching, i…

This.
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