"Apple's senior VP John Ternus reveals that Apple has added a new protective "cowling" over main logic board...not only helps with heat dissipation, but also "effectively creates a central rib that runs through the whole thing and tremendously improves the stiffness"
@davemark going ‘thin’ seemed a stupid move. Not sure anyone cares, but I guess there will be possible fatigue handholding the 13 inch. Or wanting to sell cases. Who knows.
Holy moly!
iPhone users in the EU: DO NOT delete your alternative marketplace apps
iOS 17.5 breaks alternative marketplace app re-installation. MarketplaceKit now generates a different client_id every time it is called. Now there's no way for alternative marketplace developers to identify users who have already purchased the marketplace app.
Apple fixed a security issue we reported about the way MarketplaceKit handles client_id. Now developers can't estimate CTF they owe #Apple.
ChatGPT arriving on the Mac in new desktop app from OpenAI ahead of WWDC
"Ahead of that partnership, OpenAI has announced its own first-party ChatGPT app coming to the Mac. The app is designed to make ChatGPT more easily accessible and perpetually available for users."
REPLAY CREW! Today's show was AWESOME even though I had almost no voice! Major thanks to the folks who turned out in the chat! https://somegadgetguy.com/b/44u #Apple is on an advertising apology tour. #Google is gearing up for #GoogleIO. #Microsoft is making a mobile app store?
I feel conflicted about this because I know journalism is in a rough spot, but I also hate the online ads so much. Usually I’d say this would be a nudge to force them to change course, but given the media’s in such dire straits, I’m not so sure this time.
@wjmaggos
That would be a good solution. I've also thought about the government assigning all taxpayers a certain number of credits that they could each assign to their media source of choice.
I could tell you about the current government programmes in Canada to support the media if you're curious — they're not working very well, in my opinion.
Here’s my iPhone box collection. I have the iPhones still. Does anyone else keep the boxes, even when they have no intention of selling them for the foreseeable future?
‘British newspaper groups have warned #Apple that any move to impose a so-called “web eraser” tool to block advertisements would put the financial sustainability of journalism at risk.
‘Apple is preparing to include an AI-based #privacy feature in the #Safari browser in the next #iOS 18 software update that will remove ads or other unwanted website content, according to reports.’ https://on.ft.com/4be4E5Y
Papa qui achète un mac dernier modèle pour remplacer son ancien mac qui marche plus.
"C'est plus la même connectique, je peux plus brancher mes anciens périphériques sur le nouveau modèle."
Papa qui bloque le démarrage après avoir saisi trop de fois le mauvais mot de passe.
"J'ai appelé la hotline ils devaient me rappeler, ils ont jamais rappelé. Du coup je suis allez chez un revendeur agréé, ça fait une semaine qu'ils ont la machine pour la débloquer."
@shalien oui mais faut pas qu’elle soit trop humide. @xnx ça n’a "rien coûté" parce que tu sais installer une machine et que tu avais les pièces. Sinon tout ça, ça a une valeur et donc un coût.
@MonsieurLu@shalien à l'origine c'est une machine du boulot qu'on m'a donné, j'ai 3 châssis complet avec RAM, disque dur, etc. L'écran vient d'une brocante (20€) bref en recyclant on peut avoir du matériel qui fonctionne avec une dépense très faible.
"The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT. The product’s use of generative artificial intelligence, which can write poetry, create computer code and answer complex questions, made Siri look antiquated"
Amazing to me that it took 3 wks of ChatGPT to convince Apple that Siri was "antiquated".
Whole bunch of folks have been screaming this from the rooftops for years. 😐
Apple AirDrop has gotten much less reliable in the last year. It used to always work like magic. Now, it seems to fail half of the time on transfers between me and friends and between my own devices.
Also, the bump mega vibration screen ripple thing sends a contact card instead of the thing someone is trying to share often enough to never use it.
The only fix is both sides doing an airplane mode toggle. Annoying. Not magic.
Weird, I have the opposite experience. I find it is improved now between the contacts I have. A bit slow to detect the target at times, but works every time.
🇬🇧 #DarkMatter on #AppleTVPlus - how good is this!!! It promises to be another good series that is an adaptation of a book, which in turn I will probably have to read because I won't handle waiting until the finale 😁
🇵🇱 #MrocznaMateria na #AppleTVPlus - jakie to jest dobre!!! Zapowiada się na kolejny dobry serial, który jest adaptacją książki, którą z kolei pewnie trzeba będzie przeczytać, bo nie wytrzyma się do finału 😁
#Apple challenges the courts again on payments processing.
You can now show users an external link to process the payment outside of Apple’s platform.
But that comes with a new “external link fee” of 27% - to be paid on top of the fee you pay for users who still make their purchases through the App store.
I’ve said it several times, I’ll repeat it: companies like Apple can get away with such parasitic rent-seeking behavior with no added value, and with challenging courts all over the world, because they are practically above the law.
They can afford to create their own taxation system as if they were an independent country, but without being accountable to voters, and without losing a single percentage point of market share if they behave like jerks.
And any fine thrown on them by courts around the world is likely to be only a tiny part of their revenue - unless we get the balls of fining them for hundreds of billions and use that money to support more competition in the market, which would be an act of redistribution long overdue IMHO.
Apple can treat fines as small operating costs because their monopolistic behaviour is still profitable enough to pay those one-off fines many times over.
And if they are above the law, it’s because too many people bought their crap and gave them power that they didn’t deserve. And they’ll keep buying their products even if Tim Cook starts wearing a Darth Vader mask during interviews.
If you use anything made by Apple, you are part of the problem.
@fabio I am not a fan of #apple, however the issue here seems not to be that their behavior is illegal, but that their customer base have chosen to voluntarily self-jeopardise their bargaining power. 🙄
On my little corner, I shall continue my personal apple-free life.
After watching the decidedly poorly thought out #Apple iPad commercial, I kind of suspect it was a set up. It's so bad, it looks intentionally bad.
Like some business guy thought up the idea and told his creative people to do it. His creative people told him it was a bad idea and the guy made them do it anyway, so they said "We are totally going to make that jerk regret this!"
There is another explanation for why the commercial was so bad: It's it's gotten more people talking about it than any other ad I can think of and is probably the most watched, most successful iPad TV ad ever.
The M4 Geekbench 6 scores are out for the new M4, and well benchmarks don't exactly translate to real life performance, it's interesting how much performance increase there is.
Also, the M4 is slightly faster as an M2 Pro. However, I think the GPU scores is a different story since the M4 has fewer GPU cores, although it beats the M1 Pro.
@yon I have to agree. GPUs, especially on the highest end just use rediculous amounts of electricity. Even the RX 7900 XTX can use a lot of power, especially the one with more than 2 8 pin PCI-e, which is basically the non reference models. Also, GPUs are getting too big too.
@chikorita157 Feels like they are out of ideas and are just pushing stuff at an unreasonable pace. Doesn’t help that all completion is virtually gone:/
Still curious about those Chinese ones. Could end up being endlessly terribad. Or we get something we’d never expect and a leap. Time will tell.
The ironic thing is if Apple did anything else, perhaps a magician covering a box with the stuff with a curtain, then whisking the curtain away to show the iPad, it wouldn't have made such a negative impact, but the destruction of creative stuff just echos a world that is like the first Mac ad, except without someone cool slinging a hammer at a screen... a world Apple has helped make.
