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macOS Sequoia is available today

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Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by mdaniel »

> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14]

> 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account.

what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home.app. I guess California is a pretty big state, with a pretty big portion of their target market, but still

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by philistine »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #175
philistine wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in 1991, there was an uproar, an uproar I tells you, because System 7 required nearly a megabyte of memory instead of the 600K System 6 could run with. Sure, most users barely had more than a megabyte of memory, but it paints a pattern for sure.

Yes, but System 7 wasn't installed on your computer overnight without you realising it.

Apple allows you to completely stop automatic updates. They're on by default, and they're not going to force you to restart. You can always postpone.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by llm_nerd »

treesknees wrote: post #431
llm_nerd wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That isn't "Apple Intelligence" (which is the generative stuff held over to the .1 releases). What you're describing is inference metadata + basic search logic and has been in iOS and macOS for several major versions now, constantly improving. And given that Christmas resolves to a date (it actually offers up the autocomplete of "Christmas Day" to make it easier, then simply making the search criteria a calendar date…

Well, except Apple specifically calls out this exact photo and video search function on their page titled "Apple Intelligence." Sure they've had some basic search already, but in their demos and advertising, they promise that Apple Intelligence is used to find photos by descriptions. >Search for photos and videos in the Photos app simply by describing what you’re looking for. Apple Intelligence can even find a partic…

This exact search functionality?

If we accept Apple's claim that Apple AI is coming in beta in fall 2024 (or per the Canada page December 2024), and I have the release of 18 which by that restriction is not Apple AI enabled, I can already do complex semantic search which means that functionality can't be "Apple AI", right? And person on date has been in iOS for at least two prior generations as well. iOS has been allowing you to search by people in images, places, events, and text appearing in the image, along with broad categorizations like "sunset", "beach", etc, for at least two generations.

However when you're typing in a search, for each term it tries to contextualize it via selections. For instance if you already had "{Person} on " and then typed Christmas, it will let you pick if you mean Christmas the event, Christmas an "object", or Christmas the literal text (an icon of a couple of lines of text in a photo frame). I suspect the poster selected, probably unintentionally, Christmas the text and it gave them images where that text appears somewhere in the image. Just out of curiosity I did that and it gave me a set of images that I thought must be mistaken, but on each image somewhere the text Christmas could be found. In one it was a crazily distorted cursive writing on a table cloth hanging over the edge of a shelf, which is just crazy.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by makeitdouble »

threeseed wrote: post #103
isodev wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol at “uncertainty”. It’s perfectly clear what they need to do (or not do). Oh well.

If it's so clear then tell us what they need to do. Because the DMA was designed not to be specific about what companies are required to do to be in compliance.

Ignoring for a minute that Apple has back channel access to the EU regulators, they just need to play the same game as for their AppStore:

Release their implementation following the guidelines, and see if it passes review, fix and resubmit as needed until it's accepted.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by jezek2 »

ryandrake wrote: post #326
api wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's when I think about jumping ship. If they require the App Store that's the end.

If you zoom out and look at the trajectory release after release, all of these things are obviously coming. Every release we act surprised that it's slightly more difficult to run unsigned, un-notarized, un-sanctioned code, but somehow that Voice Of The Fanboy within us has us convinced that "surely this last change is where Apple will draw the line and stop!"

Yeah, but such concerns are from a long ago and it didn't happen yet. So the best approach is (and has been) to just support the platform until it is not possible anymore and don't be emotional about it. We just know that one (still quite distant) day it will happen.

Then the usage of the platform will end for many users & developers. One could still live a quite long time on the older systems to ease the transition out.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by [deleted] »

lapcat wrote: post #168
mrtksn wrote: post #68

For the first time Apple responded to my bug report through the Feedback Assistant and requested more information, so kind of feel involved in this :) So the bug was about the screen recording permission needed for some apps, Shottr specifically. Despite me allowing screen recording previously macOS Sequoia kept asking me to go into the settings and give the permission. According to Apple, that should have had happen…

A lot of people complained by this, including the news media. I can guarantee it wasn't your bug report that spurred the change.

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Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by pornel »

mdaniel wrote: post #441

> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14] > 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account. what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home…

New Maps features launch only in Bay Area.

CarPlay EV integration works only with Porsche Taycan.

Are they implementing things just for Tim?

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by dangus »

mdaniel wrote: post #441

> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14] > 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account. what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home…

The obvious assumption is that they'll try to integrate with more utilities as time goes on and make it a more universal feature.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by dbmnt »

trvr wrote: post #5

I am usually slow to upgrade but I jumped on this and iOS 18 immediately because of "iPhone Mirroring". I've only had it for a few minutes, but it's really nice!

Let us know if you're actually using it in a week or so. (I tried it a couple of times in the beta. It is slow. It is clunky. It is an impractical way to interact with your iPhone.)
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