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Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by Al-Khwarizmi »

pzo wrote: post #264

Do yourself a favour and just buy a magnetic adapter + cable such as Baseus magnetic zinc [1] You will: - save money to buy new phone (cable costs just ~10$) - it's magnetic so even more convenient to use - magnetic adapter protects connector from dust getting inside or getting broken - you use the same cable with adapters for usb-c, lightning and micro-usb to charge different gadgets (even older airpods pro) - at le…

So the idea is that you leave the adapter plugged to the phone port at all times and then use the magnetic cable. You need one adapter per device, right?

(Sorry if questions are naive, I've never seen one of those).

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by lolinder »

newaccount74 wrote: post #87
flippy_flops wrote: post #45

I am absolutely baffled that Apple (and others) haven't updated their smart assistants with a competitive LLM. With Apple's privacy shtick and their mobile GPU efficiency, I was convinced we'd see something today. What am I missing?

I think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT. They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush things, and they don't preannounce things, so we'll only hear about it once it is ready. And they are probably going to use a different term for marketing it rather than using a generic term like LLM.

I don't think they missed the boat, I think they recognize that LLMs aren't Apple-ready yet.

They don't roll out half-baked products, and they won't be comfortable placing the big disclaimers that ChatGPT relies on. They'll incorporate LLMs if and when they can guarantee that what Siri says will be consistently accurate and extremely difficult to abuse.

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Post by elboru »

vidoc wrote: post #149

Curious what's going on with the stance of presenters? If you look carefully they all stand in a certain way, with a space between their feet that appears to be constant.

It feels like it’s the same person doing the presentation just face swapping for each section.

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Post by quitit »

sytelus wrote: post #224

This felt like really let down release. I am usually the first one to upgrade iPhone no matter what but this year I felt no attachment to any of these "new" things. Just didn't cared at all. The things I would have cared: - Dual screen - AR/3D photo/video features in phone - Much better battery life - Full satellite communication - OS-wide AI features, massively upgraded Siri, AI-first mobile browser, auto-complete,…

Hmm, quite a few of the features you've listed are not only in the next iOS, but already in older versions and the current.

AR already exists with the lidar-enabled apps, maps is already AR enabled in landscape mode, 3D Video "spatial" recording was announced.

AI features such as sentence auto-complete, upgraded spelling and grammar are already announced for iOS 17, due out in a few weeks.

AI identification of objects is already present and links through to Siri knowledge for explanations/further information (e.g. what breed of flower, landmark, type of cat is this?)

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Post by ponkipo »

beebmam wrote: post #266

I despise Apple products and I despise Google products, for very different reasons. Can't we get an alternative? Bring back the Windows phone! Or a Blackberry!

I still remember my Lumia 820 with warm feelings, Windows Phone was such a nice OS...

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Post by SCUSKU »

joezydeco wrote: post #304
lprd wrote: post #27

I miss Jobs. These prerecorded presentations are soulless and almost embarrassing at times. Happy to see USB-C on the iPhone (thanks EU) and no price hikes.

I'm starting to buy into these rumors that Apple might buy Disney, because they're doing the same wooden performances as the kids on Disney Channel. Lots of weird hand motions.

Sent this video making fun of the Apple Hands™ to a friend at Apple, she loved it. [1]

Some middle ground between Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer would bring more excitement into the game, and make it a little more human!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NBw0TzFczi4

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Post by gorbypark »

stephencoyner wrote: post #61

I was waiting for “one more thing” to show a new LLM powered Siri. I am disappointed

Didn’t they announce something of the sorts for the watch? I don’t think it’s a full on LLM but basic things are now using the on device Neural Engine instead of making a connection to the cloud.

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by evolveyourmind »

I can't understand why they invest so much in gaming. Gaming on such small devices is too uncomfortable, both for your eyes and your posture. In addition, with cloud gaming you can basically run any PC/Console game on any device provided a good-enough connection (eg. Nvidia NOW, Xbox cloud gaming etc)

Re: iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

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Post by beezlebroxxxxxx »

joezydeco wrote: post #304
lprd wrote: post #27

I miss Jobs. These prerecorded presentations are soulless and almost embarrassing at times. Happy to see USB-C on the iPhone (thanks EU) and no price hikes.

I'm starting to buy into these rumors that Apple might buy Disney, because they're doing the same wooden performances as the kids on Disney Channel. Lots of weird hand motions.

Yeah, the presentation style often screams "I've taken exactly 3 acting classes to learn how to present". The style is remarkably uniform too, like they're constantly remembering how to move their hands.
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