Apple may be pitching Apple Intelligence as a key reason to upgrade to the iPhone 16, but it seems that...
  • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
    43·
    3 hours ago

    2010: We want bigger batteries, they give us colorful phones

    2015 We want bigger batteries, they give us 1mm thinner phones

    2020 We want bigger batteries, they give us 5 cameras

    2025 We want bigger batteries, they give us AI

    Phones are a great example of the utter failure of capitalism to address what people actually need and want.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
      51·
      2 hours ago

      I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.

      Can we get that AND bigger batteries?..bigger colourful batteries even?

      • Lojcs@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 hours ago

        And cameras! Don’t replace 12mp 2x telephotos with 48mp 1x digital zoom cameras pls

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

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

    • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 hour ago

      People are treating AI like crypto, and on some level I don’t blame them because a lot of hype-bros moved from crypto to AI. You can blame the silicon valley hype machine + Wall Street rewarding and punishing companies for going all in or not doing enough, respectively, for the Lemmy anti-new-tech tenor.

      That and lemmy seema full of angsty asshats and curmudgeons that love to dogpile things. They feel like they have to counter balance the hype. Sure, that’s fair.

      But with AI there is something there.

      I use all sorts of AI on a daily basis. I’d venture to say most everyone reading this uses it without even knowing.

      I set up my server to transcribe and diarize my my favorite podcasts that I’ve been listening to for 20 years. Whisper transcribes, pyannote diarieizes, gpt4o uses context clues to find and replace “speaker01” with “Leo”, and the. It saves those transcripts so that I can easily switch them. It’s a fun a hobby thing but this type of thing is hugely useful and applicable to large companies and individuals alike.

      I use kagi’s assistant (which basically lets you access all the big models) on a daily basis for searching stuff, drafting boilerplate for emails, recipes, etc.

      I have a local llm with ragw that I use for more personal stuff like, I had it do the BS work for my performance plan using notes I’d taken from the year. I’ve had it help me reword my resume.

      I have it parse huge policy memos into things I actually might give a shit about.

      I’ve used it to run though a bunch of semi-structured data on documents and pull relevant data. It’s not necessarily precise but it’s accurate enough for my use case.

      There is a tool we use that uses CV to do sentiment analysis of users (as they use websites/apps) so we can improve our ux / cx. There’s some ml tooling that also can tell if someone’s getting frustrated. By the way, they’re moving their mouse if they’re thrashing it or what not.

      There’s also a couple use cases that I think we’re looking at at work to help eliminate bias so things like parsing through a bunch of resumes. There’s always a human bias when you’re doing that and there’s evidence that shows llms can do that with less bias than a human and maybe it’ll lead to better results or selections.

      So I guess all that to say is I find myself using AI or ml llms on a pretty frequent basis and I see a lot of value in what they can provide. I don’t think it’s going to take people’s jobs. I don’t think it’s going to solve world hunger. I don’t think it’s going to do much of what the hypros say. I don’t think we’re anywhere near AGI, but I do think that there is something there and I think it’s going to change the way we interact with our technology moving forward and I think it’s a great thing.

    • do_not_pm_me@thelemmy.club
      21·
      2 hours ago

      I use it to summarize things for me. Or rewrite something I’ve written a bit better. I usually need to spot check it, but it’s still nice to have.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    6 hours ago

    It feels like yesterday some guy was arguing against me here on Lemmy about my personal choice of wanting a longer battery life.

    WELL LOOK AT ME NOW BRO

  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    151·
    5 hours ago

    I don’t get what those companies try to achieve by automating writing (by spewing statistically probable prose), reading (by badly summarizing text cobbled from excerpts without the ability to make any sense of it), art, photography, music, all standardized to the lowest common denominator.

    I’m not buying a new device that will try to impose any of this hype. For now, Apple has decided to “punish” the users in the European Union by holding the Apple Intelligence features hostage. FINE BY ME!

    edit: typo/phrasing

    • accideath@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 hours ago

      Yea. There are very few machine learning driven features that would actually improve my life in a meaningful way. I feel much more „punished“ by the omission of iPhone mirroring on mac than any Apple Intelligence feature.

        • accideath@lemmy.world
          4·
          5 hours ago

          Having it open on my mac while I’m working on it so I can access message apps that don’t work on the desktop without having to take out my phone.

          In all fairness, it’s not really necessary, but it‘d make my life a little easier for a use case I actually have.

            • accideath@lemmy.world
              4·
              4 hours ago

              Yea. Although I do use iMessage with a few people, it’s not really a big thing here in Germany, so I also do use different apps. The main app, that requires me to get out my phone, is Snapchat, as there’s no desktop app and the webapp sucks.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    632·
    9 hours ago

    Literally just give us phones that can do what they could do 10 years ago, with modern batteries.

  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    171·
    9 hours ago

    When I replaced my 5 year old phone the only two benefits I saw was OLED screen (never going without again) and the battery life going from maybe a day to like 40 hours

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 hours ago

    I just got a 16 Pro. I still have my 7 Plus. Form factor of 7 plus is still the best of any of the iPhones, for my money. It feels THE best in-hand.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    6 hours ago

    Give me back my physical keyboard, and I’ll be happy alongside better battery life (or removable batteries).

    The last thing I want is a phone I can mistake for a table mat when I’m tired, which I feel is how phones are going. What’s the new average screen size now? 27" or is that next year’s model?

    • PeroBasta@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Meh, phisical keyboards are a pain if you think how much hardware failure you add. At least now if you know what you are doing, you can keep alive a phone for a decade with custom roms

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I just want a persistent number row. There’s plenty of room. Why can’t I have that, Apple? What possible benefit is there to anyone, of you holding that back?

      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 hours ago

        My favourite keyboard was on my BlackBerry Bold 2.(9700 I think was the model number). The keys were shaped in a way that made touch typing an absolute breeze with the perfect amount of tactile feedback.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    81·
    7 hours ago

    I just bought two brand new three year old phones to replace the identical broken ones we currently have because the current models have less functionality for more than we paid for these.

    To get the same functionality cost twice as much.

    And we still get three years warranty…