That setting has nothing to do with facial recognition. Here’s what it covers. https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/ask-siri-dictation/

It’s basically for allowing the voice assistant team to improve recognition by collecting references data, and for using usage behavior decide how to best sort search suggestions, when you like to use certain widget, and who should be prioritized in share sheet for certain apps at certain times. It’s pretty rudimentary.

Yup. It does this.

The image recognition has always been done with an on-device facial recognition model. Been this way since iOS 10, I think.

It’s just trying to find and group patterns of similar looking things, it’s not collecting and tracking you in the cloud.

Seems like the consensus in this community has generally been “that thing is mildly interesting, but it’s not for me. Especially not at $3.5k”

A -lot- of people use it for trail running and hiking, and Apple has been building out a lot of features for those users. Back tracking, trail maps, etc.

Messaging in dead zones would be a game changer for those users. Even in Apple’s home turf, the Bay Area, trail dead zones are very veeery common.

This feature would sell a lot of watches among the REI crowd.

Looking on eBay, it looks like the base models are going for around $2500, so about a $1000 off. But there are some that are priced a little lower if they’re not super pristine and or the owner wants cash now.

If any other company had a $3500 gen 1 product designed to learn about the space and market, and they made close to $2b in revenue, people would be claiming it was a wild success.

A half million in sales and over 1.5b in revenue isn’t too shabby for a device that exists as a fancy dev kit, an opportunity for the company to learn about new interaction models, and an opportunity to learn about will be compelling and differentiating for non “pro” AR / VR products.

Have you talked with a therapist about workplace communication strategies and boundary setting?

Or put another way, they look your 15in mobile computer with a few hours of battery life, made it small enough to fit in your pocket, and extended battery life for an entire day.

Summarizing, drafting things, understanding complex things that are filled with jargon, etc.

Still holds up https://youtu.be/2B-ekl_cEWk

I was promised a tiny fart.

For those who like to comment without reading the post :/

The figures from TD Cowen say that a 256GB iPhone 16 Pro Max costs Apple about $485 to manufacture, including the components, box, and assembly process. By comparison, the iPhone 15 Pro Max had a so-called Bill of Materials (BOM) of $453, about $32 cheaper than the newer model.

They stopped selling products in Russia during March 2022.

That said, there is still a Russian language App Store, and they were letting people in the country get access to platforms and software that would allow messages to be obscured from the state.

Apple stopped operating in Russia over 2 years ago. That said, there is still a Russian language App Store, and they are not bricking anyone who bought a device before the embargo or anyone who brought an Apple device into Russia from another country.

I don’t quite know the nitty gritty details of what can and cannot be access via the Russian language AppStore within Russia, but it looks like Apple left some stuff accessible so dissidents could have access to secure messaging and computing platforms.

Digital Underground

Yeah, they put product compatibility for everything on the site. But we also enjoy shit posting about this over priced microfiber cloth every year.

Sounds like a joke.

You might be on to something

When I upgraded it wasn’t so much about the minimal updates in this year’s phone. It was the sum of 5+ years of updates that was compelling.

Dynamic Island, a big camera spec jump, much faster Face ID, smoother scrolling, USB C, better Siri, MagSafe, etc.