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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by BillyTheKing »

nox101 wrote: post #379

I've heard through the grapevine that Apple is having trouble making Apple Intelligence not give lots of bad or wrong advice/suggestions/etc... (same as most LLMs). I would be amazing to me (as in "get out the popcorn") if Apple decided not to ship Apple Intelligence and came out with a public statement saying LLM tech is not ready or is a dead end and effectively implying that other LLM companies are selling snake o…

People just have less tolerance for errors using apple products.. that doesn't mean that other LLM companies sell snake-oil, people just have a higher error tolerance for them and are learning to work 'with' those LLMs

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

zombot wrote: post #380

Selling machine learning stuff as "intelligence" raises false expectations and is ultimately fraud. I can't wait for this whole overblown hype to crash and burn.

I dunno, it could be construed as a marketing phrase well enough, not unlike other technologies they have - True Tone, Cinema, etc. I mean the Apple TV isn't a TV.

Autopilot is more henious I think because it was actually marketed as autopilot.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by cujo »

joha4270 wrote: post #368
ks2048 wrote: post #331

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I can see why people want a phone number now. I was thinking more about why society doesn’t move away from phone numbers (for me, it’s been a hastle to be linked to a carrier and a country)

What better system can you think off? That allows calling the doctor, a restaurant, or that friend-of-a-friend who is selling a tractor? Without requiring people self-host a brunch of infrastructure (I like self-hosting stuff, most people wouldn't) Also, inertia

i think the problem isn't the phone number, but the special hardware/vendor lock in that is required for it. if you travel a lot or live in a country where it is just easy to cross borders as a part of life, it quickly becomes obvious that being tethered to a regional provider for your phone number is a problem.

you end up paying ridiculous roaming fees to keep your number active in the other country, or you lose any ability for people to contact you by phone. it's incredibly frustrating when voip is so close, but not the 100% solution. couple that with providers still charging ridiculous fees to call numbers in other countries and it gets even worse.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by crossroadsguy »

dullcrisp wrote: post #272
1oooqooq wrote: post #256

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> overwhelming with 5 sizes already. without jobs it's just a matter of time they go back to being "just an expensive dell" like before

What makes you say that?

Not sure. But is it possible that the reason could be for such a statement - just open eyes, ears, and more importantly an open mind and immunity from iFandom?

I mean please just look at their product pages on apple.com.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by cujo »

nox101 wrote: post #379

I've heard through the grapevine that Apple is having trouble making Apple Intelligence not give lots of bad or wrong advice/suggestions/etc... (same as most LLMs). I would be amazing to me (as in "get out the popcorn") if Apple decided not to ship Apple Intelligence and came out with a public statement saying LLM tech is not ready or is a dead end and effectively implying that other LLM companies are selling snake o…

working with llms as part of my day job and i wouldn't fault them one bit. the errors and reliability issues are not overblown.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by crossroadsguy »

tuatoru wrote: post #378
metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

The device can have a bigger battery with a thick bezel.

Can have or does have?

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by exitb »

fhdsgbbcaA wrote: post #306
imchillyb wrote: post #301

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Not OP, but... That very behavior was troublesome for Apple in the past, twice. Two times Steve Jobs swooped in and saved Apple from Dell-ifying themselves. Twice. Since Job's demise, Apple has relentlessly marched toward Dellification once more. The immediate revenue is tantalizing, it's the dilution of ones own market that ends up killing the golden goose, and the eggs they lay.

Don’t worry, locking you into their services will make it impossible to leave! The one overarching success of the Tim Cook era is ruthlessly pursuing consumer lock in at all costs.

There are a lot of customers locked in the ecosystem, sure. The question is whether the ecosystem is still able to attract new customers, as it once was.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by crossroadsguy »

zombot wrote: post #380

Selling machine learning stuff as "intelligence" raises false expectations and is ultimately fraud. I can't wait for this whole overblown hype to crash and burn.

That's an Apple thing. They developed this habit (if not addiction) after bringing features to their devices very late, sometimes a decade later than their competitors. They thought it was better to call those basic features with fancy multi word names with ™ symbols at the end and that resonates with their fan base in perfect harmony. So I think the habit stuck.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by fsflover »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #173
giancarlostoro wrote: post #60

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Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.

I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that. You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.

Did you consider Linux instead?

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by xattt »

dyauspitr wrote: post #299
browningstreet wrote: post #220

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I’m forever triggering the camera app, while locking the device, on my iPhone 15 pro max. Every day, regularly.

How is that possible? The camera icon is in the bottom left corner of the screen and you use the physical lock button on the side to lock the iPhone.

Don’t shame the man with the extra digit projecting from his thenar eminence.
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