This time around, Apple is telegraphing to users — via its website, online presentations and briefings with journalists — that its latest technology won’t follow a strict timeline.
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I’m told that Apple is now focused on developing a significantly skinnier phone in time for the iPhone 17 line in 2025. It’s also working to make the MacBook Pro and Apple Watch thinner. The plan is for the latest iPad Pro to be the beginning of a new class of Apple devices that should be the thinnest and lightest products in their categories across the whole tech industry.
Apple's updates are an appeal for everyone to get a grip. They are a clarion call for other tech companies to be practical with what they promise consumers and to deliver AI products that make our lives incrementally easier instead of confusing us with overpromises. Apple's use of the best of AI is also the best way for normal people to develop an understanding of what it can do. This is a way to build trust. Sure, maybe one day AI will figure out how to destroy civilization or whatever, but right now it's best at finding that photo of your dog dressed as a pickle you took back in 2019. And for the vast majority of people, that's perfectly fine.
Oracle, Microsoft and OpenAI are joining forces to extend the Microsoft Azure AI platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in a bid to meet the soaring demand for AI. Although it hasn’t been confirmed, this collaboration is likely fueled at least in part by the integration of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia.
So far Suzuki has developed 11 free iPhone apps to help Japan's aging population, including his latest: a slideshow of items to remember when leaving the house, from a wallet and hearing aids to patient registration cards.
He was inspired to create the app, which features his granddaughter's voice, after he realized he had forgotten his dentures as he was about to board a bullet train.
The best thing about the Star Walk 2 app is the real-time interactive sky map that takes center stage in the app. By lifting up your phone to the sky and pointing it in any direction, it is possible to identify what you're looking at and locate constellations with ease. No more guessing which stars belong to which constellation.
Language is fluid, and I don’t want to be a stick in the mud who refuses to recognize change, but I have to admit I feel like we’ve gotten pretty loose with the word over the years.
By letting go of unnecessary RAW files, you cultivate a habit of mindful consumption and storage. This mindset shift can extend beyond your digital life, encouraging you to simplify and organize other aspects of your life. It's about valuing quality over quantity and focusing on what truly matters - something that living out of a 40L backpack for four months taught me.
I like thinner devices, not because they are thin, but because they are light.
I have no doubt, with the M4 iPad Pro out and about, that Apple will be able to some thin and light Apple Watches and iPhones.
The challenge is for MacBooks: can Apple make something that is truly the thinnest and lightest it can possibly make?
(Hint: The iPad Pro comes with a detachable keyboard and trackpad.)
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