Starting with the iPhone 14, they put the last generation processor in the non-pro and the current generation processor in the pro

The weird thing here is that the 15 non-pro (the new processor from the 14 gen - A16) has a faster NPU than the M1 processor that does support the AI feature

The only possible technical reason is because they put such an anemic amount of RAM in their phones. Otherwise it’s entirely an artificial limitation

Running top of the line models does require a lot of RAM, so it’s not an entirely ridiculous theory.

The one I run on my desktop needs at least 12 gigs of VRAM

Sure. I just think this might be the first time that the current iPhone would be missing a feature on the next iOS update

I’d guess most iPhone 15 owners would have assumed their phone was new enough for the feature

One thing to note is that they announced Apple intelligence is only coming to the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max for their iOS release

That’s probably why he was salivating at hiring all their developers when the OpenAI board members fired the CEO

For your analogy, you can’t put more water in a sponge that is completely saturated

Trying to compress a compressed file doesn’t really work - at least not for a meaningful gain in storage size with zip, bzip, 7zip, gzip, xz, lzma…

They’re already using HEIC/HEIF

I would be disappointed if they’re compressing it even more on iCloud. You can’t generally meaningfully compress a compressed file

I’d disregarded compression as a possibility because the wording is “full resolution photos and videos are safely stored in iCloud”

I never made that claim, my man

I just wanted some more information about how the on-device database corruption led to restoring pictures

Those are generally opposites

On spinning disks, it’s significantly easier to restore data after a delete, but it’s not normally as easy on flash storage like they’re using

The article specifically states that iCloud wasn’t related to the bug

E.g. iCloud says it’s using 13.4 GiB to store photos, Settings -> General -> iPhone Storage says I can save 15.5 GiB because they’re backed up on iCloud, and if I use idevicebackup2 to pull everything off the phone, there are 21.7 gigs of photos

I’m wondering if these discrepancies are related to the photo app not actually deleting pictures from the filesystem

Sure, an index makes sense for quick search, but I’m confused why deleting it wouldn’t remove it from the filesystem too

Is that why iPhones seem to have no idea how much disk space they’re using?

I’d still like a deeper dive into how database corruption led to data restoration

It seems like deleting a photo must just be removing the entry from the SQLite database, and not actually deleting the photo?

If you sell more than 1 million, it breaks even at apps that cost $2.75, so if it’s less than $2.75 the developer is making less on the epic store

If you sell less than 1 million copies, it’s 3% less than the App Store, and only works in the EU

All with Epic who’s traditionally not been keen on multiplatform support… it seems like a hard sell to me

Huh? There aren’t even any chargers on the market yet, how quickly do you think support should have been available?

I can just tell you we’re paying them ~30% of the consumer price per device in a B2B deal, and I suspect Apple can demand a significantly lower rate when almost none of their devices will ever connect

A dedicated satellite device like inReach is $144/year for unlimited SOS and 10 standard text messages

I think you’re overestimating the cost of data

It has security fixes, so it’s probably a bad idea to skip it

I mean, they said it never needs to be repaired, so just offer a lifetime warranty if it degrades. Should be easy enough

30 Rock had it as a running gag