Apple has a growing history of pushing stuff out the door and then spending next to no time improving the product ... ya' just gotta' look at iTunes ... one of the worst UI experiences there is, and every "improvement" to date has done nothing to better that bad experience.
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Apple Possibly Looking to Japanese Expertise to Improve Siri
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Apple has a growing history of pushing stuff out the door and then spending next to no time improving the product ... ya' just gotta' look at iTunes ... one of the worst UI experiences there is, and every "improvement" to date has done nothing to better that bad experience.
Can't wait for Siri to be divided into three giant servers: Siri as a snarker, Siri as an assistant, and Siri as a woman.
in iOS 6 ... Apple had THE best Calendar App known - incredibly functional, highly readable ... since iOS 7, it's been nothing but a death spiral.
I remember in late 70s and 80s a lot of Japanese cameras hold by a lot of Japanese men and taking 3/4 pictures af almost ANYTHING around. This in technical expo, exhibitions and conferences. Or shops, or car dealers and mechanics. Or malls. Everywhere. So I'm ok with your "culture of precision and quality" and lesser on "intellectual property thieves" only localized in the areas you mentioned
Sorry guys........my caffeine has not kicked in yet and I missed a digit.Probably because it's no where near a billion dollars. I think you meant roughly $100 million dollars.
$99.7million <---------------------------------------$900million-------------->$1billion.
People are complaining about Siri, yet they all want Apple to protect their privacy. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft can do what they can now because they are mining your data. Look at the privacy settings on Windows 10 and you should be concerned.
This is the paradox of consumers. Apple's fault is that they set themselves up to be the privacy advocate. Meanwhile, Google is reading your emails and messages and people couldn't care less.
This is the paradox of consumers. Apple's fault is that they set themselves up to be the privacy advocate. Meanwhile, Google is reading your emails and messages and people couldn't care less.
I don't like cash. All the cash I get these days smells like sulfur.
I think Tim is completely wrong about how people feel about cash in Japan. Honestly cash denominations and the pricing of goods in relation to said denominations are a lot less stupid than in America so people don't feel as burdened using cash.
IMO rather than replacing cash I think Apple Pay will simply let people stop having to physically carry so many various Credit/Point/Transit cards while being able to use them in a more convenient and secure way.
Bring on Apple Pay!
But keep your hands off my cash.
IMO rather than replacing cash I think Apple Pay will simply let people stop having to physically carry so many various Credit/Point/Transit cards while being able to use them in a more convenient and secure way.
Bring on Apple Pay!
But keep your hands off my cash.
No need for that, as long as customers will lower the bar and adapt their behaviour to current Siri's limits
Whatever it takes to make her smarter. I asked her a question about cheese yesterday, and she gave me Pizzeria addresses.
After 2 years in the market ... Apple Pay has only been taken up by financial institutions in 11 countries ... the pace of acceptance of contactless POS terminals, by merchants in the US, is nothing short of abysmal ... Apple Pay will be nothing more than what it is now ... not much.
It's a chunk, sure. But at about 27% of GDP, the industrial sector in Japan is a rather middling percentage internationally (and is even a few points lower than the world average).
I don't know how that would have gone down since those creators ran out on Apple by their own account due to Steve's death. They wouldn't elaborate more on that but they hinted at an environment that was not conducive to their efforts.
I must say I preferred the versions of iTunes that were still clearly designed for use on non-iOS devices.
For instance, back when one could edit multiple playlists at once in separate windows. Or when you could see a visual reorganizations of a list's play order when using the now nonexistent option-shuffle feature to sort and re-sort it until it looked like a good listening sequence. Then you could apply the "copy to play order" to freeze it in play-through order for use either right there or when put onto a mobile device.
Bottom line, so much of iTunes functionality now seems corralled into the inherently more limited framework of mobile device usage, even though iTunes itself is not just a mobile app.
Cook also said he hoped the use of Apple Pay, the iPhone and the Apple Watch would promote a cashless society: "We would like to be a catalyst for taking cash out of the system," he said. "We don't think the consumer particularly likes cash."
What a tool....in case he didn't know (& of course as a world-class CEO he does), there are many countries already well on the way to being cashless using bank issued cards with touch to pay functionality. It comes over as faintly absurd to think that Apple are anything other than late to that party.
What a tool....in case he didn't know (& of course as a world-class CEO he does), there are many countries already well on the way to being cashless using bank issued cards with touch to pay functionality. It comes over as faintly absurd to think that Apple are anything other than late to that party.
You must be really angry to the world for buying the same quality product at half of price? Shame on you smart middle class & South Korea. BMW is selling more cars and making more profit than Ferari ahhh this unacceptable! You smart middle class..if u can't afford a Ferari, you shouldn't buy a car period!
" said Cook. "We want the AI to increase your battery life, to recommend music to Apple Music subscribers... [to] help you remember where you parked your car."
Somebody please tell me he's frickin kidding.
Somebody please tell me he's frickin kidding.
Heifner's Law states, "Any new media's first broad use application is pornography." AI has no difference.
Apple has done a good job being "moral" to avoid pornography by adopting s technology after that first use is old hat.