By focusing on the positive outcomes I felt much more balanced in my reaction and think I am now better able to look towards a summer of potentially challenging work with a more hopeful, growth based perspective. I’m not saying in all of this that anyone shouldn’t feel negatively towards Apple or its announcements right now, but this is just a practice/approach I’m cultivating to preserve my mental health and allow me to continue to do my best work in my chosen area of expertise.
If you're frustrated by some of your favorite apps pestering you to sign up for a subscription, some new data may help you empathize with their developers more. According to revenue data from "over 75,000" mobile apps, the vast majority have a hard time making $1,000 per month.
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RevenueCat's report doesn't cover every single mobile app available, but it paints a picture of the challenges related to monetizing mobile apps across different types of categories, as well as how uneven the distribution of app revenue is.
Apple shared that it plans to support end-to-end encryption in a future software update, meaning that the company would be supporting RCS Universal Profile 3.0.
As a result, Apple will be taking the leap from RCS version 2.4 to RCS version 3.0, bringing along all of the great upgrades introduced in version 2.7, as well as the now confirmed end-to-end-encryption upgrade.
Affected users say that despite having the correct settings enabled, new iCloud emails are not showing up in their inboxes until a manual refresh.
Apple today announced that Tap to Pay on iPhone is available in Poland, Bulgaria, Finland, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Hungary, providing a way for independent sellers, small businesses, and larger merchants in these countries to use an iPhone as a contactless payment terminal.
Capcom's Resident Evil 3 has debuted on Apple devices, making it the fifth Resident Evil title to arrive on Apple's mobile platforms.
Apple lost an appeal on Tuesday against a regulatory assessment that opens the iPhone maker up to stricter controls in Germany, the Federal Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday, following years of debate over the company's market position.
Federal judges backed the German cartel office's 2023 designation of Apple as a "company of paramount cross-market significance for competition".
What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. The Apple that commissioned the futuristic “Knowledge Navigator” concept video in 1987 was the Apple that was on a course to near-bankruptcy a decade later. Modern Apple — the post-NeXT-reunification Apple of the last quarter century — does not publish concept videos. They only demonstrate actual working products and features.
Until WWDC last year, that is.
The Macalope places the blame for this on the venture capital machine, which loves nothing more than to pump a technology as a must-have in order to make itself even more filthy rich. After years of shrugging off people saying “Apple must” do a particular thing, it is disappointing to see it fall into the trap now.
It is entirely possible, I think, that some Apple Intelligence features may never be available anytime in the near future, not because Apple's software developers are not smart enough, nor because Apple's investment in technologies is not sufficient enough. But, rather, Gen AI and LLMs may never be able to reliabily power what Apple promised.
This reminded me of the rumors that Apple -- or in fact, many other companies -- will get self-driving cars ready within five years, just in time for the year 2020. Well, at least Apple didn't publicly announce self-driving cars, nor did they created a bunch of advertisments back then.
Maybe Apple should firstly focus on getting Shortcuts working great.
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By putting Apple in the name Apple Intelligence, Apple has a higher bar to meet when compared to other companies who are 'only' doing Artificial Intelligence.
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