Here’s a clear example of how aggressive the image processing has become on newer iPhones. This is a comparison between the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, taking photos of distant text at equal magnification. Note how the 15 Pro Max’s image pipeline has made up all the details.
EDIT: I’m going to drop mentions of “AI” and “hallucinating” here because I think it’s conjuring up the wrong mental models in readers’ heads. What’s likely happening is over-eager noise reduction and sharpening (which may or may not have pattern matching) creating details where none exist. Every phone does some amount of NR and sharpening, but later iPhones are super aggressive in this regard, so much so that the results often depart from what we accept as “reality”.
For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, with most of the ire directed toward in-car infotainment.
First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.
The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.
Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move to that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.
“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”
I signed this, along with more than 160 Jewish leaders calling on #apple#disney#google & #amazon to stop doing business on Twitter. I encourage others to leave that platform & stop giving Musk any legitimacy by your presence. #antisemitismhttps://www.xouthate.org/
Yes, #Apple will demote WebApps to bookmarks on iOS 17.4 in the EU. Yes, they claim the EU is to blame. And no, that is not true IMHO. What is right is that under the DMA (Digital Market Access) rules WebApps could become a real escape route for Apps to avoid the Apple App Store tax. So better to close that possible loophole and blame the evil EU. IMHO. Reminds me a lot of the Cookie Banner stuff. Same story. Same blame game.
“Would you like to use the browser by Company X, or the browser by the company that survives on half-a-billion dollars a year from Company X, or the browser by the company that gets paid an estimated $20 billion a year by Company X even though it can survive without it?”
We desperately need a web browser by an independent organisation funded by EU taxpayer money and maintained for the common good.
i've got an oldie iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5. this has some expired root certificates which results in several apps not working properly. Plex will load, but it won't be able to negotiate with your plex server, for instance.
since apple doesn't offer new iOS updates for it (with refreshed certificates).. it seemed like i was kinda stuck.
as it turns out, and is documented nowhere aside from a post on reddit, you can manually download your own root certificate - and iOS lets you install it without complaint.
This screenshot shows the app analytics data sent by two different #iOS apps: Duolingo and Tinder. What's the likelihood that both apps are installed on the same device? 💯? 🤯
Both apps use Unity Ads. The data in the screenshot is collected by the Unity Ads framework included in these two apps, and any app that uses Unity Ads. The data is sent to the same Unity server. As a result, Unity Ads can easily fingerprint users and track them across different apps.
Interesting decision this past Monday from the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The Court held that creating an iOS emulator was "fair use" under copyright law and Apple couldn't stop someone from selling virtualization software to help security researchers poke around its operating system. This precedent could establish fairly broad protections for all forms of emulation from copyright challenges.
What caught my eye was the 11th Circuit's finding that since iOS was an operating system it fell outside the "core" protections of copyright: "We have no doubt that iOS embodies a great deal of creativity. But it's still a functional program meant to run consumer electronic devices."
Another tidbit: The Court said that fair use allowed for emulation of the entire operating system. Apple couldn't restrict it to just certain parts.
Apple is not your friend. The company that used the governments to become a monopoly, is now crying because the government told them to allow iPhone users to install applications from other sources.
We live in a world where we need government regulations to allow us to run whatever code we want on our computers.
Oh and stop calling it 'side loading'. It's just called 'installing software'. 😪
If #Apple continues on this path I’m going to have to switch back to Android. The idea that they deserve a fee from developers for people simply running programs on their operating system is unhinged. The App Store fee is justified because it’s a distribution channel. But whatever this is, is nonsense.
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OG Macintosh team will gather today at the Computer History Museum to talk about the Mac at 40.
All star cast:
Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, Mike Murray, Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue.
It'll be live on-line, register for a free virtual ticket here, scroll to the bottom of the page (pass it along)...
Ten years ago today #Apple launched the #iPhone 5S and announced the #arm64 CPU inside. It was the first public disclosure of a 64-bit ARM architecture, and it was available for you to buy in a phone. Nobody else was even close to having a chip ready to tape out, much less put in a product, and it was a performance monster.
So, what exactly did Apple break in the EU 🇪🇺? A new blog post in which I analyze the current situation for Home Screen Web Apps on iOS 17.4 in the European Union.
I was noticing many weird, histrionic posts from the Apple blogs about an ex-employee being convicted of a federal crime - but always smearing the employee about worrying about Apple spying on him. Many posts also called it a "short trial." I got curious.
PACER showed a 21 month long trial, across two states, with over 180 docket entries. Motions to suppress evidence exposed the FBI illegally spied on the employee, illegally searched his property, & illegally arrested him -at referral of Apple.
A federal jury has convicted a former #Apple software engineer for threatening to injure FBI agents after a short trial.👀 image of docket
People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars (www.theverge.com)
For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, with most of the ire directed toward in-car infotainment.