Apple has not addressed any critiques of Camera Control other than the “we are totally shipping a half-press focus lock” promise from the launch. Anecdotally, most people use it as a Camera app launcher or shutter button that’s easier to reach than the volume-up button. Yay?
There are ways to reverse each of these changes (the force switching and the Off removal), but whole process was a major pain as a user to figure out, it wasn’t simple to reverse even once I knew how to, and there wasn’t any heads up that I remember getting from Apple explaining the changes. This led to me and a lot of people being confused.
Concerns have now been raised with Apple by multiple news organisations over the AI summary feature, which is available on iPhones with Apple Intelligence.
The feature "must be revoked", the National Union of Journalists told Sky News, as the "inaccurate news summaries shared to audiences through Apple Intelligence demonstrate the feature is not fit for purpose".
“The reason we started radio was because we want to be a place where culture happens, where parties are starting, where artists come and get to have a safe space to talk about why they made certain music,” says Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of music and sports. “And that’s more important today than it ever was.”
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Then again, as Lowe himself points out, he doesn’t work for a news operation. “I’m in a streaming service where we’re trying to get more people to listen to music,” says the married father of two teenage sons. “My job is to help a business be healthy.” Darden, who’s known on Hot 97 as an aggressive interviewer, says that “on Apple, I try to create more space for the art and more grace for the artist” than in the more pressurized realm of terrestrial radio.
"We have a contract with Apple to run that partnership until 2030, although there's some possibility that it won't continue until that time frame," Solomon told analysts on an earnings call.
The Apple card dragged down Goldman's return on equity by 75 to 100 basis points last year, but "that will improve in 2025 and 2026," he added.
Apple is in talks with Barclays to replace Goldman Sachs as the tech giant's credit card partner, said two sources familiar with the matter, as the Wall Street giant steps back from its consumer finance ambitions.
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Negotiations between Apple and Barclays have been ongoing for several months, but it may still take months to strike a deal, the first source said.
"Our hearts go out to all impacted by the ongoing devastation in LA," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a social media post today. "In addition to Apple's donation, we're making it easy to support recovery efforts. If you're in the US, just open the App Store or Apple Music & click to donate to help make a difference." He also shared a direct link to the donation flow.
The reference management tool makes Writing Tools available where appropriate throughout the app, and the Compose option can be used on text and even files, including PDFs.
It has the essential editing tools, like exposure, saturation, temperature, tint, hue, and curves. Then it gets more sophisticated with wavelet tools for sharpening and some AI-based tools for noise reduction, star size reduction, gradient removal (for when the moon or city lights mess up your background and make it uneven), and satellite trail removal, an increasing problem for long-exposure photography when a satellite intrudes on your image.
This task manager features to-do lists, time tracking, insights, timesheets, work summaries, integration with services such as Jira, Gitlb, GitHub, Open Project and more; CalDAV integration; focus mode; break reminders; notes; bookmarks; file attachments and more.
Scott says that the functionality of the computers is a big help for his performance, noting that, often, when actors interact with a gadget, there’s nothing really there onscreen. But on Severance, each actor is able to “actually refine these numbers and come up with your own strategies and apply your own meaning to it.”
That meaning is important because, well, nobody knows what’s really going down in Lumon’s basement. They sit there clicking around a computer without understanding the importance of their work (at this point in the story, viewers don’t know the importance, either). So for the actors, actually using the computers and being just as clueless as their characters helps them better inhabit the role.
While not quite on the same scale as what Apple did with Severance at Grand Central, sending a suited Silo character to something random like an NBA game still shows Apple’s marketing team thinking outside the box and having fun.
Cook said he thinks he will always be "thinking about how tomorrow can be better than today."
"I think I'll always be wired in that way and want to work," Cook said. "I mean, I was working when I was 11 or 12."
A lot of Apple’s biggest blunders in the last decade seem tied to old ways of thinking, not adapting themselves to changing times. It has reacted to design failures like the “butterfly” keyboard in laptops slowly and tentatively. The Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses seem to exist very much in a product niche occupied by AirPods, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests that we shouldn’t expect an Apple response until 2026 at the earliest. Apple once was able to create the iPod in a crash program in a matter of months, but today’s Apple is apparently the kind of ocean liner that takes a very long time to course correct.
Yes, I am ready for the new season of Severance. I didn't rewatch the first season, but I did go through all the Wikipedia pages as well as the episodes from the podcast by Ben Stiller and Adam Scott.
I am grateful that, nowadays, movies and television shows are available to me at the same time as everybody else. When I was growing up, we'd be lucky if we even get to watch particular shows, and doubly-lucky if we get to watch it within the same year as everyone else. (Of course, there wasn't the internet back then, so spoilers are typically kept to a minimum.)
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