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Post by dymk »

andrewmutz wrote: post #86
quinncom wrote: post #66

I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world: > Users can now prove the authenticity of a photo taken on iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple Reference Image, powered by the new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image.5…

Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?

It will look like you took a picture of a screen or print out

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by Oras »

matesz wrote: post #75

Did they just announce the ultimate solution to image authenticity online? Instead of proving some image on some platform is not AI or severely edited, we can simply prove it was original by verifying unforgeable signature made by a camera / microphone baked into each image produced by it. And of course in future it could be done for video and audio! This would be absolutely HUGE!

Isn’t that done by EXIF like decades ago? Not on phones but DSLR. I would think it’s an easy software thing to add (and probably to remove)

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by theplumber »

ksec wrote: post #60

I am actually quite excited on this iPhone 18 Pro. Seems to pack a a lot of exciting stuff. 2nm A20 Pro, C2. I wish they have N2 but I guess not. 2nd Generation Vapour Chamber. I thought I would have to wait another generation because Apple like to use new product features for two generation before moving on. And it seems this Vapour Chamber along with other heat desperation features are much better built. Much bette…

Besides a better camera what all this along with the past generations have so exciting ? I just fail to see a reason to upgrade. Maybe I am getting old?

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by josephg »

o_m wrote: post #116
dgellow wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you do with your phone that requires you to know the memory details? Genuine question, I have absolutely no idea how much memory my iPad or phone have and don’t see why I would need to know

I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane. We should get software working well on those devices, just like it did a decade or two ago.

Small, memory efficient programs run better everywhere. It feels like theft to make consumers pay for our inefficient software. Electron / react on the desktop is such a rort.

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Post by selectodude »

wang_li wrote: post #119
o_m wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

I'm waiting for a software release for my iPhone 16 Pro Max that will let me plug in a dock that has an attached SSD, keyboard, mouse, and display, and an option to pop up on my phone to reboot into MacOS. Also, if they make a neo 2 from the A19 with 12 GB that'd be cool.

I’m pretty sure the efficiency cores in the A20 Pro have more juice than the performance cores in my M1 Pro laptop.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by intrasight »

llukas wrote: post #99
andrewmutz wrote: post #86

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Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?

Stamp only proves you did the photo and probably some metadata like when where etc. It helps but doesn't solve credibility issue.

The credibility comes from who took the photo. The next logical and easy step is for this metadata to flow to the user agent. I'll know that it was taken by a legit journalist photographer. And id not, I can have my user agent make it fuzzy or replaced with a kitten photo.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by kgwgk »

pixelesque wrote: post #26
haunter wrote: post #18

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The new iPhone Duo in single screen mode is the same size (5.4") as the iPhone 13 mini but with a different aspect ratio https://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2026-09-09/f-bf86c6f5adb3...

It's wider though, and surely going to weigh more...

A lot more. Almost twice as much (+80%).

  Height
  4.64 inches (117.8 mm) closed / 4.64 inches (117.8 mm) open
  5.18 inches (131.5 mm)

  Width
  3.31 inches (84.1 mm) closed / 6.48 inches (164.6 mm) open
  2.53 inches (64.2 mm)

  Depth
  0.44 inch (11.3 mm) closed / 0.21 inch (5.2 mm) open
  0.30 inch (7.65 mm)

  Weight
  8.96 ounces (254 grams)
  4.97 ounces (141 grams)

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by josephg »

wang_li wrote: post #119
o_m wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

I'm waiting for a software release for my iPhone 16 Pro Max that will let me plug in a dock that has an attached SSD, keyboard, mouse, and display, and an option to pop up on my phone to reboot into MacOS. Also, if they make a neo 2 from the A19 with 12 GB that'd be cool.

You’ll be waiting awhile. iPads have had desktop M-series CPUs for ages now, and you still can’t run macOS on an iPad.

It’s just a software restriction. I’m sure they have macOS running on iPhones and iPads internally, probably both through a VM and natively. But it’s very Apple to block this use case.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by josephg »

halJordan wrote: post #191
SirMaster wrote: post #123

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But they said the memory bandwidth was double the previous generation.

And here we are back to the crux. Sure would be nice if the released material was verifiable instead of "trust me shitstick"

Why? What do you do on your phone that makes you care about memory bandwidth?
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