All it would take is a simple law to be passed.

I’m all down for weight reduction, like switching to titanium.

Admittedly yeah this would be super cool, especially if it was as thin as the new iPads. Never considered buying a foldable phone, and part of that is that when folded up they do seem too thick. An iPhone that could fold out to basically be an iPad mini and folded completely flat would be cool.

I have a 14” M3 Max MBP for work and I have to agree, the design is fantastic. The weight and thinkness have never been an issue for me, and it’s nearly silent unless I have all cores maxed out for more than a couple of minutes. Battery life is phenomenal too, I love when traveling that it can make it through an entire day no matter what I throw at it. If they ruin that for me I’ll be so disappointed.

I thought we did this already and came to the conclusion that thinness only matters up to a point, then it’s just removing battery life/functionality/durability chasing a benchmark that nobody actually cares about. Oh well, hopefully they learned their lessons last time and it’s better this go around.

What are you actually trying to do that your laptop webcam isn’t sufficient? You might want to just consider a USB webcam, cheap and reasonably reliable.

The URL to the ipsw can be found in this commit to virtualbuddy, likely useable with UTM today, and virtualbuddy whenever it gets its next release.

https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy/commit/120cff9f99aab4fdbb78f7071ce771d26feb2c23

Is the distrust in the quality of the output? If so, I think the main thing Apple has going for it is that they use many fine tuned models for context constrained tasks. ChatGPT can be arbitrarily prompted and is expected to give good output for everything, sometimes long output. Being able to do that is… hard. However, most of apple’s applications are much, much narrower. Like, the writing assistant which will rephrase at most a few paragraphs: the output is relatively short, and the model has to do exactly one task. Or in Siri: the model has to take a command, and then select one or more intents to call. It’s likely that choosing which intents to call, and what kinds of arguments to provide are handled by separate models optimized for each case. Despite all that, it is very possible that errors can still occur, but there are fewer chances for them to occur. I think part of Apple’s motivation for partnering with OpenAI specifically for certain complex Siri questions, is that this is an area they aren’t comfortable putting Apple branding on due to output quality concerns, and by providing it with a partner, they can pass blame onto the partner. Someday if LLMs are better understood and their output can be better controlled and verified for open ended questions, that’s when Apple might dump OpenAI and advertise their in house replacement as being accurate and reliable in a way ChatGPT isn’t.

The privacy and security issues with LLMs are mitigated by the majority of it being on-device. Anything on device, in my opinion, has zero privacy or security issues. Anything taking place on a server has a potential to be a privacy issue, but Apple seems to be taking extraordinary measures to ensure privacy with their own systems, and ChatGPT, which doesn’t have the same protections, will be strictly opt in separately from Apple’s service. I see this as basically the best of all options, maximizing privacy while retaining more complex functionality.

I hope they can integrate Apple intelligence into autocorrect to stop auto-incorrecting words

I’m gonna install this in a VM and see how the new features work

It’s Apple so security mechanisms are probably implemented at the hardware level. Microsoft’s thing was dumb because it was just an unencrypted SQLite database that any program could just read.

I’m excited for this. Siri seems like it might actually be useful, finally, and the various ways they are integrating LLMs will make the stuff I already do with ChatGPT much more straightforward.

Pretty much, yeah

Seems like Apple is really hitching themselves to this with a name like that. If it’s a flop, it’ll be like Apple Maps jokes all over again but 10x worse.

It’s a common enough pattern where a reputable app is sold to a shady third party company, which then increases prices, and fills the app with ads and/or telemetry. It’s not really publicly known who the company is, and the company has shown no signs of transparency, which is the root of the trust issue.

Many of these have good FOSS alternatives. Bettertouchtool does a million things, but check out rectangle, middleclick for some of the features. TempMonitor has several alternatives but if you’re mostly after menu bar widgets, there’s one called “stats”. Al dente is free, though Apple has something like this built in already but it’s heuristic based and less predictable. After building an 80% charge limiter into iOS and iPadOS I bet this will show up in a future macOS version. Lulu is an alternative to little snitch.

APFS’s per-file keys are super cool, I didn’t realize they were doing that. But do we know if the photos app is actually using the filesystem for storage? I don’t think photos show up in the files app, for instance.

Could you be more specific on what you’re talking about? I found the “Apple Platform Security” document, is that what you mean?

What makes you think iPhones are any different?