If it’s 100% accurate, it’s a fantastic time saver. If it is anything less than 100% accurate, it’s useless. Because even if there’s a 2% chance it’s wrong, there’s a 2% chance you’re stranding mom at the airport, and mom will be, rightly, very disappointed. Our moms deserve better!
Bottom line: Apple is not the laggard in AI. AI is the laggard in AI.
With Image Playground, video editors can use Apple Intelligence to create stylized images, and Magnetic Mask workflows have been streamlined with a new keyboard shortcut to show or hide the Magnetic Mask Organizer.
This new study looks at how an Apple Watch can monitor a person's heartbeat, then tell them to take their medications when needed — instead of every day.
Today as part of its latest Nintendo Direct, the gaming giant announced the launch of a brand new iPhone and Android app: Nintendo Today! It’s available now on the App Store as a new way to follow updates from Nintendo every single day.
A total of 350 winners have been selected, and the winners are eligible to attend the WWDC 2025 special event that will take place at Apple Park on Monday, June 9.
Of the 350, 50 will be named Distinguished Winners, and will be invited to Cupertino, California for a multi-day Apple Park event that will include the keynote meetup and additional opportunities to meet with Apple engineers and employees.
It is, after all, nearly April, which means there are just two months until WWDC and the first semi-public builds of another new MacOS version. I am hesitant every year to upgrade. But it does not appear much effort is being put into the maintenance of any previous version. We all get the choice of many familiar bugs, or a blend of hopefully fewer old bugs plus some new ones.
I do hope there’s at least a tiny chance that the EC’s ruling leads Apple to make government-mandated lemons into lemonade. It could surprise us all by supporting other manufacturers’ smartwatches wholeheartedly—not just where it’s a legal requirement, and not in such a cumbersome fashion as to discourage anyone from taking advantage of it.
This much seems certain: If Apple doesn’t invent the next great wrist-worn gadget, somebody else will. It’s kind of fun to think about that somebody else creating something so compelling that Apple sees welcoming it onto the iPhone as being in its own self-interest—or at least a better option than giving iPhone fans any reason to even toy with the idea of switching allegiances.
Plus, the show consists entirely of “oners,” long, uninterrupted takes shot with a single camera. Scenes run more than 10 minutes long with no cuts, a far cry from Rogen and Goldberg’s usual comedic playground, where two cameras get cross-coverage, there’s tons of improvisation and they “find it in the edit.”
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In a sweet twist of irony, the series’ third episode harps on the loathsome concept of the studio note — and the oners allowed Rogen to dodge Apple’s feedback almost entirely. “Because of the way we shot it, essentially nothing could be done after the episode,” Rogen says. “Apple would give us notes, but the answer was always ‘We can’t do that.’ ‘Can you take out this line?’ ‘Nope.’ ‘Could you go from this line to this line?’ ‘Nope, we can’t do any of that.’”
The current situation Apple is facing with Apple Intelligence may be different from past problems such as Apple Maps and MobileMe. In those instance, we all know that if Apple invest enough effort and money, those issues can be solved.
However, what some of the stuff Apple had promised with Apple Intelligence may well be technically infeasible. The whole Siri understanding what you say and what you want it to do may well never be working properly beyond the rumored 60 to 80 percent of the time.
It may be a problem that you cannot solve and deploy within the next year, no matter how much effort and money Apple pours into it.
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