Apple Intelligence - Real World Use

SauRoNZA said:
On the Mac front it may become more of an issue since I’ve had a 512GB primary the last year and don’t have a day to day reference any more and not near it now to check how much I have free.

From a holistic perspective I’ve had about 1% of users on 256GB having issues with space and I know this due to them not being able to update because of it. In most cases emptying their trash resolved it easily.
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Recently had issue with gf MacBook Pro (256GB) because of it, it's really not that much space even for basic user stuff if anyone does basic editing for social media, I am happy that the Pro starts at 500GB, Air should as well, it's <R200 price difference for Apple and is pure segmentation.
SauRoNZA said:
Phone wise 128GB is still just fine with 40GB free on my phone and the biggest chunk going to WhatsApp of all things which I consider to be ephemeral crap that can get flushed happily.

As always if you are cloud first then local storage isn’t much of a concern and if you aren’t you would have bought the bigger ones anyway.
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Most people do not want to delete their WhatsApp, basically they'll go look for certain pictures and stuff in that person's specific chat, they don't back it up to somewhere else. You're using yourself as an example for average user when you're quite tech savvy.
 
Johnatan56 said:
WhatsApp until recently (not sure when they changed) used to have 7 back-up copies of your data, so e.g. 1-2GB of back-up is 7-14GB.

Checking now, they seem to have improved a lot there, media directly uploaded, text store is just one full back-up copy and one that's with increments/differential, storage usage is now 2GB for me (though I have recently cleared stuff).

Was actually one of the reasons I moved to Telegram.
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I run both Whatsapp (for personal stuff) and Whatsapp Business on my phone. Whatsapp Inc. takes 5.44 GB storage. I backup weekly to iCloud and am fairly anal when it comes to cleaning out junk and old threads. I tried Telegram a few years back, much better app in my opinion. I do a fair amount of business in Africa and almost no-one uses Telegram. Even email is becoming less popular, practically all my business is done via Whatsapp Business. Where email will store the mails on their server, Whatsapp stores all these threads and documents and pix on my phone. Administratively I am obliged to keep some of these threads for up to 5 years. That sucks up a lot of storage by Whatsapp.
 
It has just dawned on that I actually don't understand why  didn't just integrated/bake-in Apple Intelligence into Spotlight.

It's an already familiar flow to users on macOS/iOS/iPadOS that you automatically go to when requesting information from your device.

Now it's a separate thing entirely with a new keyboard/touch action that especially annoying on mobile, whereas if it was just part of Spotlight I would have used it so much more and it would have been entirely transparent.

Right now it requires a special effort so I either don't bother or I forget.
 
Lol the same Gurman that said the Apple watch 2 will have a camera.
9to5mac.com

Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery - 9to5Mac

Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device’s debut at Apple Stores, sources...
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Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device’s debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple’s considerations for the 2016 release of a second-generation model. According to multiple sources familiar with Apple’s plans, the Apple Watch 2 is planned to gain a video camera, a new wireless system for greater iPhone independence, and new premium-priced models. Interestingly, it will also feature similar battery life to its predecessor…


FaceTime Video Camera

Apple’s current considerations call for a video camera to be integrated into the top bezel of the Apple Watch 2, enabling users to make and receive FaceTime calls on the move via their wrists.
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Used siri with Chat GPT for the first time this morning.

The answer it gave me was good enough. Don't know if I will be using it regularly, maybe if we get all of the planned updates I will use AI more and more, but for now it is still an outlier for when I need to use it.
 
9to5mac.com

Apple is starting to look like an AI winner thanks to one advantage - 9to5Mac

Apple is starting to look more like an AI winner thanks to its unique advantage as the platform owner, which two recent reports highlight.
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Now today, a new Bloomberg report indicates Wall Street is starting to recognize Apple’s advantage.

Ryan Vlastelica and Carmen Reinicke write:

Apple Inc. has faced plenty of criticism from Wall Street for not spending as aggressively on artificial intelligence as its Big Tech rivals. But that strategy is suddenly a blessing for the iPhone maker.

Investors are beginning to scrutinize the huge sums companies like OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are spending on AI, leading to heavy volatility in what had been some of the year’s biggest momentum plays. As a result, Apple’s position is being re-evaluated.
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Later in the article, after sharing positive analyst takes on Apple’s AI position, the writers continue:

The thesis is simple. Apple will benefit as it taps other companies’ models to deliver AI features to its millions of customers while avoiding much of the heavy spending required to develop its own capabilities, which is what many of its megacap peers are doing.
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FiestaST said:
Had to use Apple Intelligence (on Mac) to send out some professional emails last week & it worked as expected.
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So the big win for AI, the justification on billions invested, is writing professional emails that any competent educated person should be able to do?

I expected more from all the ballyhoo.
 
Velskoen said:
So the big win for AI, the justification on billions invested, is writing professional emails that any competent educated person should be able to do?

I expected more from all the ballyhoo.
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Not sure if you're trying to be obtuse or something I gave one such example, It has more purpose than that. I used it just now for a cover letter for applying for a role. And no I did not copy it wholesale I took the framework it gave & added my own spin.

My old man is a lecturer & uses AI all the time, not for the entire lesson but the framework/structure.

The issue is when people become fully reliant on AI & can't even use basic thinking.
 
FiestaST said:
Not sure if you're trying to be obtuse or something I gave one such example, It has more purpose than that. I used it just now for a cover letter for applying for a role. And no I did not copy it wholesale I took the framework it gave & added my own spin.

My old man is a lecturer & uses AI all the time, not for the entire lesson but the framework/structure.

The issue is when people become fully reliant on AI & can't even use basic thinking.
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I use it when I have to create writing that doesn’t deserve to exist. E.g. a motivation for some fscking auditor about why I spent my budget the way I did.
 
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