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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by nomel »

Aurornis wrote: post #218
nateb2022 wrote: post #48

I would love to see some "pro" features hit the Pro or Pro Max. Something I've wanted for a while is the ability to have more than 2 active eSIMs; I think a dual modem would be really cool, maybe with some features targeting users in poor cell coverage/ spotty service areas. Or feature Thunderbolt rather than normie USB-C so you can record 4/8K ProRes to an SSD, and power a multi monitor setup with your iPhone Pro. m…

> Or feature Thunderbolt rather than normie USB-C so you can record 4/8K ProRes to an SSD, The old iPhone 17 Pro has USB 3.2 Gen 2, which is good for 10Gb/s. You can already record 4K60 ProRes to an external SSD. This feature already existed for a year, so I assume you didn't actually need it? > and power a multi monitor setup with your iPhone Pro. macOS would be sick. I think you're looking for a MacBook Pro the siz…

The MacBook Neo runs an A18 Pro phone chip. It's appears to be all there and somewhat ready to give us something like DeX [1].

[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/app/samsung-dex

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by jaggederest »

Gigachad wrote: post #252
jaggederest wrote: post #249

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Given the whole private cloud bit, I am assuming they keep the private keys server side and never let them out.

That's a good point, You might still be able to trick the cloud to sign your photos, but that's something they could patch in updates without losing control of the key. They could have the server only sign photos taken on the latest ios version.

And honestly you could have a similar antitampering oracle that was at least obscured, in terms of "we've detected tampering but won't tell you how or why", which is frustrating but I have to imagine that 99.9%+ of images are clean.

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Post by HDBaseT »

cortesoft wrote: post #220
apetresc wrote: post #173

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What on earth would you do with an iOS device that has 96GB of RAM? You realize the last generation (i.e, the most powerful consumer phone in the world today) had 12 GB of RAM? You feel the need for eight times that amount?

They obviously want to run AI models on their phone.

In theory it sounds alright, although in reality, the heat and power consumption make this less than ideal.

I am not sure single digit tk/s on weak model like ChatGPT OSS 20b @ Q3_K_M is going to be worthwhile.

Not to mention this has to be <0.01% of users who "want" to do this. The iPhone tooling would make it hard to even configure and spin up a local LLM.

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Post by brewdad »

rconti wrote: post #259
brewdad wrote: post #167

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It works with normies. My wife just preordered an 18 pro. She’s the family photographer and is still on a 128gb iPhone 12, so it’s time for an upgrade and she fell in love with the cherry color. She bought the 12 instead of the more appropriate 12 pro years ago because she loved the purple that she couldn’t get with a 12 pro. Edit:typo

Is it cherry? I see burgandy on the site. Also, preorders begin on the 12th.

You’re right, Apple is calling it Burgundy. Previous leaks were calling it something or other cherry but it looks to be the same color.

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Post by Frost1x »

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…

How will this work against rehosted images on all the platforms people actually share photos from? It’s a good feature but many popular services apply metadata stripping and basic image adjustment before resharing. That seems like the place where people would actually want to verify authenticity.

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Post by dwattttt »

dabinat wrote: post #112
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?

It would be great if they could use the LiDAR scanner to sign a depth map of the scene in front of the camera. It would show if you photographed a flat image.

The 'ol "analog hole". Never been able to patch that gap.

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Post by snypher »

awkwardleon wrote: post #155
spacebanana7 wrote: post #141

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The weakness of this is that a person can take a picture of a high resolution screen or print. We really need Apple to open up true depth APIs to make forgery non trivial.

Agree with the weakness, but the benefit of provenance is still there. You can't tell if the picture that person took is of an AI image, but there's some value in saying "I took this" and being able to prove it.

How does this actually work though?

1) I see a photo online and doubt it's provenance

2) I contact the photographer and ask to see their cloud image (???!)

2a) I borrow someone's mac to download the image (.jpg?) and it can be verified on that?

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Post by brokencode »

RetpolineDrama wrote: post #159
ivm wrote: post #129

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> The only thing that need radical change is iOS. Please, not again. – Sincerely yours mobile developer

Introducing SwiftUI2: Every UI is a simple prompt, and all the underlying code is generated.

I mean, isn’t that how like 90% of new SwiftUI apps are created these days? Just telling an AI what you want? Apple already can’t keep up with the review.
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