Her phone in the thumbnail has oval camera bumps. It is also extra long. Mine has round camera bumps. Is that a new iphone?
Apple unveils new accessibility features
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#192I feel that if we build the UI for blind users first, we would get much more powerful systems, rather than building UI for the seeing users and then slapping a CV to text model of what's shown on the screens.
Did not test it yet, but blind users may be more prone to dominate Command Line Interfaces, which are becoming increasingly popular due to its easy integration with LLM
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That’s the app. Or vision-impaired, at least.
But in practice it could just be anyone whose outsourcing vision right? It's basically a free manual vision service.
There would have to be a person pretending to be blind on the other side of the phone call, recording your answers. At that point is it not just easier to have that person do the labeling themselves?
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#194Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand. A few other examples: - The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac a…
Man I miss the touch bar. Never got why people hated it so much
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#195actual useful & impactful A.I features not the snake oil being sold daily.
Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features
#196Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand. A few other examples: - The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac a…
Man I miss the touch bar. Never got why people hated it so much
The hate was because it replaced function keys many people use by tactile touch, without looking. Doing the same on a touch screen is very difficult.
If the bar had been added on top of those, I don't think there would've been the same kind of hate for it.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
But in practice it could just be anyone whose outsourcing vision right? It's basically a free manual vision service.
There would have to be a person pretending to be blind on the other side of the phone call, recording your answers. At that point is it not just easier to have that person do the labeling themselves?
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But Apple's uses so few system resources and runs fully on device on newer iPhone models (16+ I believe). It's so efficient. I really enjoy using Handy with Parakeet as the model, but the system resource usage is a monster compared to Apple's (although very good). Looks like Wispr Flow uses a cloud model [0]: > Cloud based speech processing infrastructure for 1B users It gets to be a messy comparison because my iPhon…
human resources (my voice and time) are far more valuable than the system resources. going to the cloud is absolutely worth it to prevent a typo
That doesn't work if you have limited or no connectivity (e.g. on a mountain range). There are also privacy concerns, e.g. a doctor using it to transcribe medical information.
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#199Luckily the European Accessibility Act has pretty much made PDF/UA a requirement.
This should really be the last resort.
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#200Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand. A few other examples: - The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac a…
And their upcoming smart glasses are the best UX for almost everything they showed the user holding up her phone for. I read their glasses when taking video or pics the lense will light up and or flash more prominently then Metas. Maybe that will help the whole privacy issue and also it's not Meta (do love my Meta or smart glasses as a whole will ditch Metas for Apple quickly as both pair of Metas broke & there's no…
Same for me! Both pairs of Metas are now inoperative because I can't get them back to factory reset. Once you pull that little blue tab out of them when they're new, it's GAME OVER.