Apple’s bet is that if people use the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid function during the initial days of hearing aid use, they’ll recognize the power of the device and either keep with using the product or graduate to a more powerful device based on hearing loss progression. “A lot of times when people actually go get over the hump and use a hearing aid, they often take them out because, you know, there's, it's a big adjustment for your brain to now be hearing and processing that sound,” says Desai. “That's the other thought is like if this is even a way to start using hearing where your brain gets used to that augmentation, and then over time, should you need more extensive help, [you can graduate to a different device].”
“We kind of have thought about our photography suite as helping people capture and relive their most cherished memories in powerful ways, and I think our colleague John McCormack said this recently, but we see these as personal reflections of something that truly happened, but we’ve been doing that for a lot longer than spatial photography,” Sorrentino says.
“We’ve been doing it with Live Photos, panoramas, Memory videos and photos, and even in maybe more personal expression — places like widgets on our lock screen wallpapers, but we want our camera and photography ecosystem to celebrate the best moments of our lives. And again, while folks love using the term memories in many aspects of photography, hopefully, you saw earlier today, nothing comes close to reliving a moment or a memory quite like spatial, right?”
Presently, spatial content can only be viewed by looking at the files directly, whether that content natively on the device or sent to it via iMessage, Airdrop, or other sharing methods, in a Vision Pro. However, Apple recognizes that in order for spatial content to become more popular and more widely used, it needs native support inside of a browser.
Apple plans to start expanding that this year. During a conversation with Della Huff, Product Manager at Apple, and Billy Sorrentino, who is on Apple’s Design Team, the two revealed to PetaPixel that Apple will support spatial photos and videos within the Safari web browser.
With the release of iOS 16 in 2022, Apple removed the volume slider from the iPhone Lock Screen except while using AirPlay. In iOS 18.2, however, Apple has decided to bring back that capability with a new “Always Show Volume Control” option in the Settings app.
Apple News+ is once again expanding its collection of puzzles. With the release of iOS 18.2 beta 1, Apple News+ now offers daily sudoku puzzles across easy, moderate, and challenging difficulty levels. You can also track your sudoku performance right in the Apple News app.
I don’t want to see all image editing tools lumped together with one another, or worse, with every other thing that has “AI” in the name. These tools are not all the same thing. These photos aren’t all the same. Use your brain and not some puritanical binary rule to lump all edited photos together. Let people have photos that they like!
A new app called Screenable will help parents introduce their children to technology by turning an iPhone or iPad into a starter phone. The app is designed to grow over time with a child, as it offers different modes for kids of different ages.
The new version brings support for the iPhone 16’s Camera Control, as well as more bitrate options and many other improvements.
A headline like, say, “Vision Pro Sales Are Exactly in Line With Expectations” is not going to hit people as a big story, but “Apple Sharply Scales Back Production of Vision Pro” does. It’s the classic “Man Bites Dog” being a story and “Dog Bites Man” not. Apple is a company that is famous for making spectacularly popular products. Vision Pro is definitely not a spectacularly popular product. But it’s disingenuous, to say the least, for an October 2024 report to suggest that Vision Pro sales are surprisingly weak when they’re almost exactly in line with uncannily accurate expectations set in a May 2023 report by the exact same reporter at the same publication.
U.S. tech giant Apple Inc is welcome to continue deepening its presence in the Chinese market, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao told its Chief Executive Tim Cook during a meeting on Friday, the ministry said in a statement.
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China is willing to help return Sino-U.S. economic and trade ties to a healthy and stable track of development through regular exchanges between government and enterprises, Wang added.
The jury, in Delaware, agreed with Apple that previous iterations of Masimo's W1 and Freedom watches and chargers willfully violated Apple's patent rights in smartwatch designs.
But the jury awarded the tech giant, which is worth about $3.5 trillion, just $250 in damages - the statutory minimum for infringement in the United States.
Apple bringing back the volume slider to the home screen in iOS 18.2? That may well be as big as all the other AI stuff. (Okay, I am partially kidding.)
Yes, I miss the volume slider. But I think I am also used to just swiping down to get to control center and adjusting the volume that way, so maybe this is just nostalgia talking.
So, when iOS 18.2 comes around, maybe I will turn on volume slider, maybe I won't. I'll report back later.
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