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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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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

Running not-particularly-useful local models.

The models are pretty useful, especially when it comes to asking things you may not want to go over a network.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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The things we need to know most, RAM and Memory Bandwidth, are unfortunately missing from the release. Their absence doesn't bode well.

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

It's because of the local model use case. Running AI locally on the phone is a feature (they brag about the processor), but it's constrained by memory and bandwidth.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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I've never seen such a boring landing page from Apple.

Because they shared the Newsroom URL, instead of the Apple product page: https://www.apple.com/iphone-18-pro/

A-h-h! Thanks! But still, I see no usual transitioning; the images differ in style, weird `play` on carousel. Previous ones were eye catchers. Do you disagree?

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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iOS and macOS don’t “correspond” in any way, shape, or form. Completely different releases. Their release windows tend to be close (by design) but there ‘s no “correspondence” here.

Yeah, they do: go and fucking educate yourself. You're one google search from the result: https://support.apple.com/en-us/123075 . Fuck... They both by design follow the same numbering scheme. By design. It's like you missed the whole point of Liquid Glass.

I agree that the releases to correspond, but the way you’ve said this is probably making someone’s day worse

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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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…

> I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world Congrats to Apple achieving nation-wide tracking, embedding some kind of yellow dots[1], but this time this time this is based on strong cryptography and non-removable, targeting people who don't use AI under the slogan "we are fighting AI fakes", but people still "love the feature". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

I think the big difference here is that it's opt-in, off by default, and also not included with shared images by default.

This is a feature because you use it when you WANT to be able to demonstrate an image wasn't altered / was yours, like for a journalist.

This is an actual question, not a dig: what do you mean by non-removable?

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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my eyes are an older model

The difference is noticeable even if you pretend to not notice it for cool internet points. ;)

I can definitely spot the difference. But I don’t think I really care. If my MacBook mysteriously swapped from 120hz to 60hz, it would probably take me several weeks to notice.
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