• The facts show Apple is two generations behind Android in AI (artificia

    From Andrew@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 20 03:09:41 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been
    since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024 during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced
    in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI
    efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/

    What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Andrew on Fri Jul 19 20:16:45 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2024-07-19 20:09, Andrew wrote:
    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024 during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI
    efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/

    What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D.

    LOLOLOLOLOL!

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to Andrew on Sat Jul 20 07:07:59 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024 during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI
    efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/

    What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D.

    But how does it actually matter how far someone is "behind" when the
    shiny new widget still isn't all that great, and doesn't actually
    reliably provide meaningful productivity gains?

    Case in point, AI asked to render salmon swimming upstream:


    <https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>


    -hh

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  • From Norman Sylvia@21:1/5 to recscuba_google@huntzinger.com on Sat Jul 20 20:33:41 2024
    In article <v7g5qf$3gjh2$4@dont-email.me>, -hh
    <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:

    On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024

    Am I the only one who caught this? October 2024 is 3 months away.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Norman Sylvia on Sun Jul 21 15:29:57 2024
    On 2024-07-21 00:33:41 +0000, Norman Sylvia said:
    On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:

    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been
    since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024

    Am I the only one who caught this? October 2024 is 3 months away.

    You're the only one who bothers to read the mindless gibberish and
    completely fabricated nonsense posted by the braindead anti-Apple
    know-nothing trolls. The rest of us were smart enough to killfile those
    idiots long ago. :-p

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to -hh on Sun Jul 21 05:29:17 2024
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    -hh wrote on Sat, 20 Jul 2024 22:10:06 -0400 :

    Name just one.
    We'll wait...

    Non sequitur.

    Because what is the origin of this claim that Apple can only be successful
    in the marketplace if they do nothing less than ´leapfroggingˇ?

    HINT: These uneducated low-IQ religious zealots just make this stuff up.

    Which is why I asked you for a substantiating citation of what you˙re
    trying to use as a goalpost: due diligence requires that you didn˙t try to disingenuously move said goalposts.

    What's important is that a belief system that is strongly held, and yet,
    isn't based on even a single fact - is referred to as purely religious.

    To wit:
    a. You clearly hold a very strong belief system about Apple superiority.
    b. And yet, your entire belief system is based on exactly zero facts.

    It's classic for Dunning-Kruger people far to the left of Mount Stupid to
    claim a strongly held opinion they can't back up with even a single fact.

    Q: Name a single thing that the iPhone does that's better than Android?
    A: (we'll wait)

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  • From Bud Frede@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Sun Jul 21 06:26:01 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> writes:

    Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
    On 2024-07-20 07:07, -hh wrote:


    <https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>

    Perfect.

    In early AI experiments (80's) they asked a computer to come up with a
    description of the suburbs.

    It spat out: "... a place where grass is grown."



    Earlier this year Google had several blunders, notably the one where it was asked to create a picture of a bunch of Englishman.

    It’s just another example of Garbage In Garbage Out and wokism.

    Please keep your politics out of it. Thank you.

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  • From Norman Sylvia@21:1/5 to YourName@YourISP.com on Sun Jul 21 20:18:50 2024
    In article <v7hvbl$3uab9$1@dont-email.me>, Your Name
    <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

    On 2024-07-21 00:33:41 +0000, Norman Sylvia said:
    On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:

    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been >> since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024

    Am I the only one who caught this? October 2024 is 3 months away.

    You're the only one who bothers to read the mindless gibberish and
    completely fabricated nonsense posted by the braindead anti-Apple know-nothing trolls. The rest of us were smart enough to killfile those idiots long ago. :-p


    I usually kill the latest name of The Troll. I have killed several
    people whose only posts were to argue with The Troll. Recently, I have
    been considering dropping this group altogether.
    Typical thread:
    Troll:"lies about Apple"
    J.R.:Blah,blah,blah,,,liar...blah,blah blah..." Troll:"Blah,blah,blah...iKooks...All you know is what Apple's marketing department tells you."
    Others:More name-calling.

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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Chris on Mon Jul 22 14:19:50 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Chris wrote on Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:27:32 -0000 (UTC) :

    It's interesting how biased the ignorant uneducated low-IQ Apple religious >>> zealots are; but let's simply ask them to back up their claims by stating >>> even a *single* factual technological accomplishment Apple has had for the >>> iPhone in the past five years that they consider "leapfrogged" Android.

    Name just one.
    We'll wait...

    HINT: These uneducated low-IQ religious zealots just make this stuff up. >>>

    AirTags?

    Yup. Nothing comes close.

    Not in the last five years, that's quite short period of time in such a mature industry, but also AirPods (& Pros) and FaceID.

    *You do realize you've proven my point that Apple can't innovate*, right?
    Even ignoring that all Apple can ever possibly do is copy existing Tiles...

    Ask yourself this question:
    Q: What has Apple done for the iPhone in the past five years
    that you feel has leapfrogged Android phones in technology?
    A: ?

    Notice that none of you strange religious zealots can come up with even a *single* technical improvement of the iPhone over Android phones.

    Even if I grant you AirTags are well marketed - even as they're a silly gimmick, they're not an iPhone technology - and even if they were - your
    entire strongly held belief system would be based on only 1 fact.

    Do you even realize you nutcases prove me right every time?
    (The reason is simply that I'm right - but you need to understand that.)

    You've proven my point that Apple can't innovate due to its lack of R&D.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Andrew on Mon Jul 29 12:59:06 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    On 2024-07-28 18:56, Andrew wrote:
    Tom Elam wrote on Sun, 28 Jul 2024 20:29:35 -0400 :

    You ignore the effect that the Apple M series CPU has had on the laptop
    space. The race to convert to Snapdragon is well underway. The A series
    phone CPU is no slouch either. Then there is that whole Apple support
    network. In my extensive Android experience there was NOTHING like that.

    Bear in mind I use iPhones and iPads and Android phones every day where you'll never hear me disagree with any sensibly logical stated viewpoint.

    The main difference between me and most of the people who post to the Apple newsgroups is I don't believe every word that Apple claims in
    advertisements - and - in fact - I see how much Apple lies in its
    marketing.

    To your points though...

    What I like about the highly flawed (unpatchable) M-series CPUs is that it put Intel on notice that they'd better improve their chip design output.

    What I like is that you ignore your claim that Apple doesn't really
    design it's CPUs.


    In that sense, I completely agree with you, and I agree with Apple's
    strategy (as they tried with Qualcomm) to divorce themselves from others.

    It's a crapshoot as to what Apple's strategy is with smartphone CPUs as
    there are plenty of indications it's purely a (brilliant) marketing ploy.

    Other than the fact that they are among the fastest outright and
    definitely the fastest per watt.


    Suffice to say that Android phones leapfrog Apple iPhones regularly, just
    as Apple iPhones leapfrog Android phones regularly - where I strongly
    suspect it would be the case no matter which CPU Apple/Android used.

    A fact you regularly ignored when you would carefully point out DXOMark
    scores for smartphone cameras...

    ...always shortly before Apple's latest phones were released.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Chris on Fri Aug 2 06:00:02 2024
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote at 15:24 this Wednesday (GMT):
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2024-07-31 05:50:03 +0000, candycanearter07 said:
    -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote at 02:01 this Sunday (GMT):
    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
    On 2024-07-20 11:07:59 +0000, -hh said:
    On 7/19/24 11:09 PM, Andrew wrote:
    "Meanwhile, all of those benefits are available on Android and have been
    since Google introduced the idea of an AI-first smartphone in October 2024
    during the Pixel 8 launch. With Google's Pixel 9 family due to be announced
    in August, Apple's iPhone will be two generations behind Android's AI >>>>>>> efforts before it has even left the Cupertino stage."

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2024/07/18/apple-iphone-16-pro-max-apple-intelligence-ai-sales-demand-new-iphone/




    What do you expect from a company whose advertising budget dwarfs R&D. >>>>>>
    But how does it actually matter how far someone is "behind" when the >>>>>> shiny new widget still isn't all that great, and doesn't actually
    reliably provide meaningful productivity gains?
    uttinf
    Case in point, AI asked to render salmon swimming upstream:


    <https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/yijd3c/they_asked_an_ai_engine_to_recreate_a_salmon/>



    Ignoring the fact that AI is utterly useless and nothing more than
    another fad gimmick ...

    Well, it may be a fad .. or perhaps not (at least for certain niches). >>>> Real point is that it is still formative and immature today.
    [snip]

    Yeah, I personally dislike AI.

    As far as I can find, the only people who actually like AI are those
    making money from creating it or pointlessly adding it to every product
    they sell to get gullible to upgrade yet again. :-\

    "AI" has so many different meanings that it depends on who you ask.

    Most "AI" is some form of statistical modelling - ML, ANN, DL, CNN - which has been around for decades and is very powerful & useful. In the right context.

    Trying to disentangle real AI - oxymoron? - versus snakeoil "AI" is tricky. Even in the scientific community there's little distinction by the funders, propagating the uncertainty.


    Yeah, I wish companies would just say like "algorithm" or "learning
    model".
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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