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Watch Apple WWDC 24
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Okay, that opening bit was really self indulgent but totally hilarious.
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gotta lead your "World Wide Developer Conference" keynote in the age of AI with some news about AppleTV+'s latest shows
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Tim didn't even brand it Apple Intelligence there
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I lack imagination, what’s the use case? Maybe happy birthday
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Ahhh makes sense
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"sup?" texts you can set up before you start drinking for later that night.
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You would die.
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Messaging and Photo improvements look good.
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Kinda underwhelmed so far
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they probably wanted to show it's still important to them, and it's also their newest product.
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enhance dialogue might be good for stuff like tenet, but id be wary of changing a movies sound levels. i want the original christopher nolan vision
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no idea how people sleep comfortably with an apple watch on or manage the battery life when not charging it overnight
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I’ve worn mine for years so don’t feel it. The series 9 I have now charges really fast, like 25 minutes to full charge in the morning while I’m having early coffee
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i only need like an hour to charge it from 50% to 100% so a shower and getting ready for bed is enough for me
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I put my hand by my head a lot when I sleep and I still haven't had many issues. The ultra has been a bit less comfortable. It's pretty easy to find a couple of hours in the evening to charge.
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It doesn't bother me at all, I just charge it during dinner and it's not a problem.
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Everyone: make iPad better for productivity.
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Omg, a calculator on iPad!
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hey beepboopbeep
DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS
https://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=42453750#item_42453750
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Holy fuck they actually made a calculator app for iPad. Those crazy bastards!
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Okay, the jokes are landing this year. "Anything that can get that high." Lol
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yeah, that is really
cool
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just like everyone else
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how is Safari's private browsing more private than Incognito?
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as long as only pornhub.com knows my favorite videos and not Apple we're all good
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going for a real rope a dope strategy here lulling everyone to sleep before AI appears?
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So if I understand it correctly it is "translate your games to work on our stuff" not using the open industry standards like vulkan? And not Apple Silicon builds of games through multiple game stores like Steam, but buy it again through the app store?
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It is correct that it's to help you port your games to Apple-specific tech, namely Metal. Apple doesn't support Vulkan natively at the OS level. The Vulkan website does have downloads for macOS but I don't know how well that works, and there's an open source project called MoltenVK that works as a translation layer between Vulkan and Metal, it's how I have vkQuake running on the Mac (though the author of the port is the one who explained how)
But once you have the game ported over you can sell it however you like. I'm not sure if they were saying BG3 used GPTK (probably not, development of it predated GPTK) but BG3 for Apple Silicon is on Steam. Same as No Man's Sky. A few ports like Death Stranding and RE8 were App Store exclusives but likely because either they wanted to get paid again for another copy or, in the case of DS and RE4, they also put it out for iPhone and that meant a Universal Purchase where you could get it across devices.
But no there's no rule that says your GPTK games have to be on the App Store, you can distribute them however you like.
One of the things GPTK had was a library that, long story short, you could use to run your Direct3D games on the Mac directly. The licensing of it was such that you couldn't just ship this as your solution but it was big in helping devs see that yes, their shit could run on the Mac. There's an open source project called Whisky that uses it to let end user gamers just run games that work through it. I'm curious if GPTK2 has something like that for Vulkan.-
Nice. Thanks for the explanation. Hope this just gets wider and wider support.
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Apple intelligence! The meme was right!
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Apple starts talking about AI and stock ... https://i.imgur.com/QlEfBoc.png
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the only thing that matters for the share price is a) is there an AI subscription offering? and b) is the AI stuff only on newer hardware to drive increased upgrade rates?
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some of you would 100% be shit talking the launch of the internet itself with your current mindsets
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indeed, turns out large language models are massive technological advancements over what has powered Siri so far
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that will be easy to do now with LLM based assistants
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i kinda suspect they (rightfully) ran into privacy/data issues or something, with how features seemed to be getting ripped out and/or walked back (in addition to just... not being available in so many countries). like 2013-2014 google assistant was COOL AS FUCK in a really creepy way. "hey, based on your usual patterns you tend to go to X place around this time every day - juuuuust in case there's an accident so you'll want to leave 30 minutes early if you're planning on going there"
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because you were a kid, not a 40 year old curmudgeon
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TBF there was a lot of dumb shit during the dotcom boom around Y2K, but I agree that everyone could benefit from being more open-minded and less curmudgeonly.
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yeah there's always dumb shit, but that's a feature, not a bug. We don't figure out the best ways to use technology without lots of different people and companies trying wild shit, much of which won't actually work or succeed. People see the dotcom bubble and the internet's impact on society and don't seem to connect the dots that even if there's an AI bubble to burst it could just be because we're in a Cambrian explosion of technology that will reshape things again
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1.5 billion Siri requests per day and 1.4 billion are saying 'nevermind'
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Siri is 13 years old?! Holy shit. That said, this AI stuff may finally make it worthwhile.
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13 years later and their first demo of its new advanced capabilities is still 'what's the weather?'
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And still the only things I use it for are to play random music from my library, start a timer or make an alarm.
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I wonder if AI stuff is going to land with Apple's customers. Investors very much want to see tech companies entirely focused on AI, mostly for productivity reasons, whereas consumers seem increasingly negative on it conceptually. Maybe the Apple brand magic will trick people into liking it, idk.
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I don't see much evidence consumers are increasingly negative on it, the mainstream media is largely just anti tech everything now
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Yeah, I haven't heard any anti-AI sentiment from the non-techy people I know at all. I think it's mostly tech nerds who are upset over it, normal folks either don't know about it or just seem to be ambivalent about it at worst.
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I bet it will
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Probably not with this release. Creating images and having it remember some stuff isn’t exactly the killer usage most people need or are really wanting. Plus there’s years of annoyance with digital assistants that will require users to be re-trained to utilize what they’re now capable of. My usage of them is limited to “turn on this light”, “nevermind, or “stfu, nobody was talking to you.”
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It'll land well if they nail the integration. It needs to be seamless. Erase the concept of 'AI', it's stupid and just gets in the way.
Make it a fun image generator for Messages. Or make Siri not suck nuts for anything other than setting timers. Make searching easy and effective. Proper machine learning models make all of this stuff possible.
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If they just use it for making things like siri and suggestions better when it's actually ready for that then people will like it. Otherwise they won't.
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we gonna get all this bundled into a new subscription price at the end?
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gonna be limited to new ipad pros or something dumb >:[
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incredibly limited image generation style options. Is that a limitation of the on device models not being powerful enough? Or Apple minimizing any legal/PR risk?
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I imagine image gen is done in the cloud most of the time, so probably a legal/PR risk. e.g. they don't want people using Apple devices for disinformation.
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if you can imagine something you should be required to get a 4 year advanced degree before you can create it
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or just say 'where's the package for the __ I ordered last week?' which Siri should be able to find find in your email and open the tracking information for and parse and read back to you
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They would be massively limiting its capabilities if they only allow it to do things based on 3rd party API integration. Siri should be fully capable of answering that question by silently browsing to Amazon.com and finding that information for me without the need for an Amazon app + API integration.
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To be fair I just looked and the tracking link in an Amazon email will open directly to the tracking.
So at best without APIs it can at least open the app and show you, but it wouldn’t be able to tell you the results.
But you are right that instancing the request in the background and scraping what the app/site shows could do what you want.
The whole point is that this isn’t some magical solution and asking Siri to do stuff will not be without pitfalls still.
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I'm speaking much more generally than Amazon packages. I'm thinking any shipping notification email with a tracking number in it. Siri already understands the patterns for tracking numbers today - I'm expecting AI Siri could extract the tracking number and throw it to the app Parcel while also figuring out the item description from the email. Parcel would need to expose the record fields in Siri intents, but I expect they will.
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I was thinking about that airport demo and wondering what info the mom would need to send for the AI to answer the questions. The mom would need to send specific info via text “I am landing on Sunday the 10th at 230pm on aouthwest airlines flight 567” for it work right?
A normal text of “I come home Sunday at 230” wouldn’t be enough for the AI to figure out because it doesn’t specify what airport or airline-
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your airline itinerary is in your email or Apple Wallet on device so the AI can already know this context
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I missed that particular demo but same idea if your mom ever shared the flight details previously in email or text with you
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I've always shared my actual flight number with people. That's a way better source of info than "come get me at 2pm" because flights can be delayed or cancelled.
And in that case, the phone will be able to retrieve all the info it needs. Airport, airline, terminal, arrival time, baggage claim, etc.
So I guess you say "Mom, just tell me your flight."
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I’m far more interested in the helpful AI stuff like, find a file that was sent, make me a route that has a stop to eat around noon, shit like that.
The generative shit is flashy, and the generative emoji might be fun. But I think the things that help you out use your device will end up being way more useful.-
I don't think there's ever been much question about that, which is why everyone was so excited to see what OS integration with AI looks like in Android and iOS
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You’ve got iPads with the same specs as MacBooks saddled with iPadOS. What a complete waste.
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I don’t know how to feel superior any more!
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I think it's definitely worth heading to the store and checking out a demo. I didn't find the passthrough to be the game changer some people have been hyping it up to be, it still feels like holding the preview screen from a cell phone camera up to your eyes even if it is a bit less grainy than the competition, but the overall look and layout of VisionOS is really nice.
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When I did mine I signed up for a time slot and then, when I went in, they had a rep sit me down in a quiet room and bring out a sanitized headset and then walk me through roughly 30 minutes of demos. Depending on how long it takes for them to show you all the controls, you should have a chance to check out stuff like the immersive photos and videos, virtual environments, etc.
The tech was undeniably cool. But, as someone who has now owned multiple headsets, it definitely felt more iterative than innovative. That said, I'm intrigued to see what a second version will be like if and when it releases.
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Elon banning Apple devices at his companies
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800265431078551973?s=46&t=gxGFlZxW-QvgVE909Fc3Ug -
So nothing of substance for their turbo charged M4 iPads except a calculator app? Lmao
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Animations feel snappier now!
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The number keys on the calculator are ray traced thanks to M4.
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Only at 30fps in quality mode tho.
Maybe they’ll add FSR to the calculator app in 18.1
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iPad as a productivity machine for anyone other than artists is a farce.
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I'd add students to that. I've been using my iPad to take all my class notes, read textbooks, and do homework all quarter. No need to use paper ever.
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Okay, but can you read the scroll offset, yet? I'm currently making an alternate slider where an arbitrarily-wide, ruler-like image scrolls under a fixed indicator (basically a machine gauge). I wanted to use all SwiftUI for it, but the hoops you have to jump through to read the scroll view's offset (to calculate the output value of the slider) are just gross. I ended up doing the slider in UIKit and wrapping it in a UIViewRepresentable wrapper for SwiftUI.
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Apple's Private Cloud Compute seems like a decent effort towards maintaining privacy while offloading tasks from phone to cloud
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1800291897245835616.html
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