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Mini LED coming to 11-inch iPad Pro in 2022, Kuo says
Simple: OLED can experience burn-in of graphics that appear for long periods of time. Also, and related, the”O” stands for organic. Organic compounds usually don’t have the lifespan of inorganic compounds. In OLED, blue has a much shorter lifespan than Red and Green. This could lead to color fading and inaccurate color over time—YMMV.The biggest advantage of Mini and Micro LED can be in brightness. OLED can achieve up to 1,000 nits of brightness, while inorganic Mini and Micro LEDs can emit up to 5,000 nits of brightness Mini LEDs can approach the blacks of OLED depending on the resolution used for backlighting ( which is getting higher all the time). Micro LEDs match OLEDs in blackness values. So, contrast ratios can be much higher with Mini and Micro LEDs, compared to OLED due to the higher brightness.They’re getting really good results with Mini-LED. Plus it’s a run-up to Micro-LED, in a not obvious way—more in manufacturing than in as a back light for a group of pixels vs. a light for each subpixel of R,B,G,G respectively.
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Apple Intelligence second wave arrives today -- what you need to know
You can switch back and forth easily. You click on a category or another— or click on “all categories “ and you’re back to what how it was before the update.mike1 said:Through machine learning, the built-in Mail app can classify emails into categories such as...I really hope this can be disabled. Don't think I would have any use for this and will probably add extra steps to clean up e-mails.I have the final 18.2 beta running on last year’s iPhone 15 Pro Max. Right now I’m using this year’s 16 Pro Max. ( I like having extra iPhones to mount on tripods or grips to shoot what is called “B roll” in video parlance.I love the categories feature for seeing emails that are most important to me, or looking at emails that are essentially bills.And the I go back to “All Categories” to double check if I missed anything. I will stop looking at “All Categories as I grow to trust the prescribed ones. I’m certain machine learning is being applied to the categories. My important ones are always in the high priority category. I don’t know how it knows other than checking contact list, or perhaps my Favorites list in phone app. But it includes more and seems good at it. It hasn’t missed important emails nor has it included any stuff I would skip.The News category seems to have a very high density of email I won’t read and can delete. It’s made culling email so very much easier.I am relieved as I get over 40 emails by 2pm every day. I unsubscribe and boom, they’ve sold my name to another entity. It’s a whack-a-mole exercise.I’ve been using the “Hide-My-Email” feature for about 2 years and it has helped a lot. I used to get 75 emails by 2pm before using Hide My Email for about 6 months.If you donate to non-profits like I do, always use “Hide My Email” with each new organization.Bottom line: don’t fear categories nor dismiss them until you try them. If you don’t like them, just leave “All Categories “ checked all the time.
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Dutch antitrust regulators launch probe into Apple Pay
When you load your card onto Apple Pay, it is encrypted and sent to VISA, MasterCard, or whatever company manages the card. Then VISA eg. will issue a different set of 16 digits encrypted to send back and be stored in the Secure Enclave silicon on your iPhone. Only VISA knows the new 16 digits and only VISA has the encryption key. The Secure Enclave does not communicate without encryption, and only VISA can translate the encryption. New keys are used on every transaction. VISA et al only collect info that would be collected to make the payment, the same info collected with a card transaction.Sarkany said:Secure? Funny. I guess you didn’t read the article with the WiFi exploit. Who knows what kind of security hole is being exploited this very moment by a bad actor on Apple itself or their devices. Get real.
Read up on it at Anandtech.com or ArsTechnica.com via search on sites. AppleInsider may have an archive article on the subject as well.
It’s so secure that credit card companies and banks offer a discounted usage fee to Apple.
As in the VISA example, not even your bank knows the key. VISA does the communication with your bank directly.
If you don’t trust a company like VISA and their communicating with your bank, then you don’t have any cards at all. As far as the Secure Enclave, it is silicon that would be destructed if it is tampered with physically. Software-wise, the encryption is safer than using a card directly to pay for something.
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Warren Buffett has sold a lot of Apple stock so far in 2024
Young Padawans, look deeper into the world of finance and at what Berkshire Hathaway (BRK)/Warren Buffet invested in AAPL cost compared to their assets, as well as when they invested (2016 through 2018). And learn Buffet’s philosophy of finding companies that are worth holding for a very long time, even if they are so successful as to seem unbalanced proportion of their investment because of continuing success.Kierkegaarden said:
Yes, most people just don’t understand this. Speak with any investment advisor and they will most likely tell you to have no more than 10% in any one equity, or even in one particular sector. When you get above this, it may be time to “rebalance”.ssfe11 said:Half of Buffett portfolio is Apple stock. Yes I said half. That is amazing and there is no way you can’t not diversify away a bit. Way too much allocated to one stock and I’m sure Buffett heard this constantly from the new younger berkshire managers. Means nothing but that explains some of the price drop this year.BRK is a holding company of wholly owned subsidiaries (no longer available on the market ) AND partially owned companies ( owning stock). So you’ll see that the CURRENT VALUE of their AAPL shares is 50% of their partially owned companies, referred to as their ‘stock investment portfolio’. But that’s less than half of the story.BRK bought most of their AAPL shares between 2016 and 2018 at an average price of $35 per share. From their Annual Report for 2018, the company assets (largely their investments in wholly owned companies and partially owned companies) were $707,794,000,000. The cost of the shares AAPL they had purchased was $36,044,000,000 (that was 5.4% of AAPL shares outstanding or market cap at that time, fairly close to estimated 5.6% today or even mentioned elsewhere as 6% of Apple— most of that increase in their ownership due to stock buybacks as they bought little or no more shares after 2018).
As an investment company, as per their own Annual Report company description, the BRK investment in AAPL was approximately 5.1% of their assets as of the end of 2018.
BRK’s cost of AAPL shares as a percentage of their partially owned companies stock portfolio total was 35.04%. Interestingly however at that time, the market value of their AAPL. shares was only 23.31% of their partially owned companies portfolio. The other partially owned companies were averaging better at that time than Apple.Closing price on Friday ( May 3, 2024) was $183.38. That is approximately 5.24 times the cost they paid. That huge increase is how they got to 50% of their partially owned companies or what we call their “stock market portfolio”. Warren Buffet’s investment philosophy is to invest long term in companies you believe will succeed and grow in value. He buys and holds.BRK’s 2023 Annual Report states Assets of $1,069 billion. With AAPL shares owned by BRK at a value mentioned in this article of $135.4 billion, that pits the current value of investment in Apple at 12.65% of their assets.But the original cost of AAPL purchase was $36.04 billion, putting that original cost at 3.4% of their current assets. Wow! Remember, their business asset is owning wholly or partially, other companies. That ownership of 100’s of companies is their business—that ownership is their asset. I’d say BRK/Warren Buffet made a good return on that investment.I’ll go out on a limb and say I believe while they may sell some more of Apple stock, I don’t think it will be much more—I doubt they’ll go below a 4% or even 5% stake in Apple.Your philosophy of 10% maximum in any one company would have had you selling AAPL that you might have purchased in 2018 because it was doing so much better than the rest of your portfolio. Nah, probably not? Or if you invested in 2011 would you have sold the stock
if it swelled to too much of your portfolio? Don’t forget that between 2020 and 2021 the stock price doubled.
I did this research and took the time to write this because your harsh judgement of Warren Buffet really pissed me off. I really hope you can pull back from any judgement at all and just keep learning long term—it’s a rewarding investment in yourselves (2 of you) and worthwhile for all of us, myself included.
I’ve included screen captures of pages from the BRK 2018 Annual Report to show their position with AAPL and their asset statement. Also is a really nice graphic of companies owned wholly and partially. The owned companies graphic is cool but shows a fraction of the wholly owned companies and those companies’ subsidiaries. The graphic is from BRK 2021 Annual Report.
PDF is mind boggling chart of companies and subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway.
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Lunar details a 'very exciting time' for high end Mac Pro, Apple Silicon
This is an uplifting article with insight into real life consequences of Apple’s intense focus and skills in integration of software and hardware.I work in high level photography and design. My work is faster, higher quality, and a pleasure to produce with the tools I now can use.Video and 3D artists have much more complex workloads than I do, so I greatly appreciate D.E.D.’s concise yet very deep look into how these complex and demanding workflows are are so vastly improved due to Apple’s integrated design culture.I set aside my work in 3D fifteen years ago due to its time demands hurting my productivity in my specialty areas. I feel I can now revisit 3D and put it to good use in content I produce.Nice one, D.E.D.!
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Apple A16 chip is now being produced in the USA
tht said:
I think the silicon dies might go back to Taiwan, Japan or South Korea for chip packaging, then to where ever for assembly into the final product. Could be China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, who knows. It's global supply chain. A lot of people moan about Apple products being assembled in China, but that is akin to complaining about wanting to do landscaping or grass cutting jobs. …NYC362 said:
Yup.. that's exactly how it would work. It might sounds nuts, but the costs of everything are figured out to the penny and if it was cheaper to do it elsewhere, they would.ssfe11 said:These chips would be shipped to China AND India for assembly?
AMKOR, based in nearby City of Tempe, is building a $2 billion chip packaging factory next door to the north Phoenix TSMC Fab in neighboring Peoria.From ABC News: “… Amkor is set to package and test chips for industry heavyweights Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Apple Inc. …” [ at the new 500,000 sq ft plant just west of the TSMC plant.]
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Experience Immersive sizzle reel for Apple Vision Pro updated with new scenes, sports
It’ll take some time for developments in camera technology for stereoscopic shooting in various situations at 24 and 48 fps 8K and 12K by various entities that make these cameras.It’ll also take a while for producers to learn storytelling that involves cuts that may be different than what might be chosen in 2D cinema.With development of cameras (Sony and others) there are considerations for sports with cameras, that are larger and heavier due to two sets of lenses for stereoscopic shooting. They need to have higher data throughput along with the production room doing live editing having an a tremendous amount of throughput with data coming in from 12 or more cameras.Stereoscopic effects are more evident in the camera position being close — not with zoom. How do you get closer to the action without interfering with the action in live events such as baseball, American football and soccer?I can think of four entities working on this in sports and cinema: Apple of course; James Cameron and his Avatar 2 & 3 Cinematographer Russell Carpenter—both live shots and a large amount of virtual cameras; Disney with its stable of ESPN contracts (game reels after the game, then later live real time stereoscopic with a myriad of cameras and torrent of at least a dozen stereoscopic camera data to live editing production room, the virtual cameras in Marvel and PIXAR production and evolving changes in storytelling; and fourth, Industrial Light and Magic. Imagine the data stream of 48 fps at 8K.
Much may being held back for WWDC in a few weeks. And another bunch to reveal at Fall iPhone release. The would be In a variety — eg. games, storytelling, sports, and use as in software creative tools such as in CAD and animation software, engineering development, education, medical visualization and guidance as well as medical education.
Teasing and releasing content and new tools for a new product over the first year or two is Apple’s history in new product enhancement.
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Can Apple Vision Pro reinvent the computer, again?
The word ‘program’ was pretty dominant when I wrote programs in 1966 on punchcards for a mainframe.unbeliever2 said:`...before Apple's Human User Interface Guideline writers coined the term that we today shorten to "app."`This is complete nonsense. The term "application", denoting software distinct from the operating system itself, goes back to the 1950's at least.Windows users and developers generally called their software: ‘programs’ while Mac users and developers generally called their software: ’applications’.In 2008 Apple opened its App Store playing not only on an abbreviation of Application but also the first three letters of Apple. It may be possible we referred to applications as apps for shorthand prior to the App Store but it was not in general use as it would become after the App Store opening and Apple’s reference to Apps.I don’t have a perfect memory nor time travel, but I was very involved with mainframes and then the Apple II and the Macintosh as a user and in writing code and scripts. So this is my best recollection.i hope you can ease up on using angry words like “complete nonsense”. I’m sorry you’re angry.“Anger and blame are a poison you think will get the other guy, but it is corrosive to your own soul and eats you up from the inside.” Author unknown.
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How to use Apple Notes for instant equation results on iOS 18
Yes, I agree that would still be ‘compute’, but it is common even in math classes to say if a^2+b^3=?, and if a=3 and b=2, ‘solve’, or more commonly, ‘calculate’ the expression rather than compute the expression.Maurizio said:It would be useful to everybody, online press, users, and even Apple, to use the correct language.
Notes do not solve equations, it computes expressions.
An equation is something like x^2-1= 0, and solving it means finding the values of the 'variables' that make the equality true.
Computing an expression is executing a algorithm writter as a mathematicak expression: 3*5-2 means multiply 3 by 5, add 2 and tell us the results.
The two things are wildly different, with different use cases, and very different complexity.
MaurizioIt’s technically better to say compute, although I prefer calculate.Using the word “compute” was rare in my math background long ago. I got an 800 score in the SAT Advanced Math level II test, but that was 60 years ago. So I was pretty fussy about math terms too. Has usage changed?In 1960 through 1965, during my advanced H.S. math program, we didn’t have digital computers—they were in Universities with punch card input. The term computer also described a person who specialized in solving advanced math problems and in high volumes. I think that’s a clue to older folks saying “solve the problem“—that’s what our teachers told us to do. So I think it comes down to expression vs equation. An equation equates two sides of the ‘equals’ sign.Expressions and calculation results pasted from notes:
a=3, b=2
a^2+b^3 = 17
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a=3, b=2, c=4
3a^3 + 2b^2 +3c = 101
Another thought on this is that when you calculate the expression, you put an ‘equals’ sign and the result on the right. Ipso facto, you have an equation!
Note: This is the first time I’ve typed an algebraic math problem in Apple Notes on an iPhone. I’m impressed with Math Notes.
I also wonder if a future version of Math Notes will have some abilities to solve equations.
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Apple is ramping up for a big iPhone 16 sales boost thanks to Apple Intelligence
Apple’s AI features will start to appear around the December to February timeframe. From the WWDC sessions I attended, and looking at the hooks for third party apps, I can imagine Apple’s first party apps will be pleasant to use.Today’s hyped AI that a lot of you are complaining about is indeed annoying at times. But that’s the LLM generative AI. Maybe we’re expecting too much. All types of ML or AI are improving at an accelerating rate with improvements marked more in 6 months rather than yearly—certainly noticeably improved yearly. Disregard the hype, be patient and look forward to the coming improvements.Apple’s three level approach is attractive in that generative AI like CHAT GPT is only one of the three levels, and only if local or private cloud AI doesn’t provide you what you want.1.) The first level, on-device, will be able to learn and take your corrections with durability.
2.) The private cloud AI, the 2nd prong, will be encrypted and anonymized. Apple would likely curate that intelligence to weed out bad information.3.) The third prong is your option, and you have to consciously delect the option of going to the third party AI. It looks like Apple might take on more partners for third party AI LLM choices.Apple is rarely first mover and usually releases when they’ve refined something new. Sure, you can give me a list of shortcomings—I’d bet my list is longer. But on the whole, other than Siri, Apple’s use of machine learning has been pretty useful even if in subtle ways.My prediction from what I learned at WWDC, and from past experience with Apple striving to under-promise and over-deliver, is that AI and Siri will be a pleasant experience by January or February. In the keynote and on subsequent interviews, Apple revealed the new session nature of Siri queries. They demonstrated follow up queries related merely by session proximity eg. Make ‘XYZ’ appointment. Oh, and remind Joe of that in a text.
They demonstrated stumbling and changing what you said in a command or query. That shows real life usefulness. (especially for me)When do the best deals happen on iPhones? In the March timeframe. Consider the iPhone 16 upgrade for March and get a good deal — it will time well with the AI features.For many of us, upgrading in the Fall is fine—we’re patient and will be happy for improvements when they are delivered—when they are ready.
