All voice assistants are mighty piles of excrement. All of them. Siri, Google, whatever. Language processing was better in text-based adventure games. And you're lucky if all you need is English.
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iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On 'Hey Siri'
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“Hey Siri, move the cursor 23 pixels to the left and 74 pixels down, then select the RGB value at that spot and set that as the background color for the eraser. No, wait, 3 more pixels down and 13 pixels left. One more. One more. One more. One more... okay use THAT color. ”
If they run iOS11 than that won't be an issue as only one device will actually answer.
Kind of pointless on a desktop where I can do stuff so much faster myself.
On a phone there are situations where Siri (if she's getting it right) makes sense, but on a desktop I don't see how she could do things efficiently. I'm clicking and typing faster than I could talk to Siri anyway and my hit rate is way better than hers.
No matter what we settle on in the coming decades, we can all be assured that we will not be dicking around with a mouse and keyboard. Siri's not great but you have to start somewhere.
What is this? The 90’s? Internet appliance? Let’s hope it boots BeOS too.
It handles the entire boot process. It controls the power state of the x86 processor. It’s not just for Siri.
I don't want the iMac Pro because of its form factor. But when I did read that it includes an A10, I thought "cool!, it will run natively ARM mach-o binaries on MacOS!!"... but then I continue reading and it will have 512 MB RAM only, and it will be for Siri... Apple, what's up with you these days? You said this would be a Pro machine (well, I don't think this form factor can be used for Pro purposes, but it's you, Apple, who called it Pro). So, Pro with Siri?? Come on!!!! And who are your Pro targets, Apple? 15-year old girls? Come on!!
An A10 would have been a good idea, but only if it can access all the system RAM and can run natively ARM binaries. Only for that. I don't want an A10 in a Pro machine for any purpose other than that.
I mean: Is there anybody in the Apple cockpit?
An A10 would have been a good idea, but only if it can access all the system RAM and can run natively ARM binaries. Only for that. I don't want an A10 in a Pro machine for any purpose other than that.
I mean: Is there anybody in the Apple cockpit?
Cute. The smartphone in your hand is an internet appliance. It's just been renamed.
One this comes to mind
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-05...ocations-of-your-friends-through-your-tv.html
Apple is next?
I wonder when next iToilet ? With builtin camera and microphone? Ughhhhh
https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-05...ocations-of-your-friends-through-your-tv.html
Apple is next?
I wonder when next iToilet ? With builtin camera and microphone? Ughhhhh
Hmm perhaps this marks the beginning of the transition from x86 to arm processors.
Imagine all Macs coming equipped with A1_ and x86 processors: macOS apps like Safari, Mail, Notes, Pages... could be gradually rewritten to run on the A1_ architecture for improved performance / battery life while the x86 would provide compatibly for "legacy" apps. Looking into the future Apple could get rid of the x86 processor and provide a software emulation layer as a fallback for by then "outdated" applications.
Imagine all Macs coming equipped with A1_ and x86 processors: macOS apps like Safari, Mail, Notes, Pages... could be gradually rewritten to run on the A1_ architecture for improved performance / battery life while the x86 would provide compatibly for "legacy" apps. Looking into the future Apple could get rid of the x86 processor and provide a software emulation layer as a fallback for by then "outdated" applications.
Sure... like disabling "update your OS" nag screens! Oh, wait, no... not that one. Or like letting you continuing running 32bit iOS apps!... Oh wait a minute... no, that one not either... Or like using the full potential of an Apple product without being connected to the cloud! Oh, that one is not an option either...
Given the Apple policy these days, I wouldn't trust a Mac that can listen to you even when it's off, no matter if you can disable that behaviour. Who tells you Apple won't override your preference?
I think the Hackintosh can become a much more reputable computer than the Mac if Apple continues in the "big brother" direction.
It’s not running Siri. It provides Hey Siri support but also will do much more.
Siri needs a Giant leap foward to remain relevant. Other companies are years ahead of Siri. Unless I need to set an Alarm I cant trust it for anything more "exotic". Really would love to see apples Stats on this; my guess is about 80% ar, "Siri set my alarm for 6 am". That should tell you something.
And in unison they all say,”Sorry I don’t understand that.”Apples Siri-centered home anno 2018.
Hey Siri!
"Yeah?" said the iPhone
"Wazzup?" said the Apple Watch
"What?" said the HomePod
"Can I help you?" said the iPad
"What do you need me to do?" said the iMac
"Yo!" said the Apple TV
All at once, of course
What would be nice is if all my Applications ran on my iOS devices and all my Apps ran on my MacOS devices. Ooo... We could just have a unified OS that adapts to the hardware. How radical would that be! Too bad Apple is vehemently against such simplification. I really want all the power of what ever machine I'm using without the different OSs getting in the way. Apple has created Babylon with all their different OSs.
Having Hey Siri would be nice for me. My computer is connected to my home stereo amp and being able to do music controls through my voice alone would be nice
What I'd really like to see is an A-series alongside Intel in the next MacBook Pro refresh - with some native apps (or at the very least background app refresh/power nap) running on the chip like Mail, Safari, Calendar, Messages
That way you could get absolutely insane battery life while you're using those apps without compromising the flexibility of x86 on the entire system. Then apps could slowly be rewritten for ARM until there's no more dependence on x86.
I hope having the two CPU's alongside each other in the iMac Pro is a sign of things to come.
Side rant: I'm getting tired of the random posts about how saying "Hey Siri" is going to have your whole house responding to you at the same time. Do none of you own two Apple devices? Try it for yourself, jeez. You aren't geniuses that just figured out a glitch in Apple's master plan, this was obviously already taken care of the same as it has been on Google Assistant and Amazon Echo - why would you assume these devices can't be made aware of each other?? Do you really think that these multi billion dollar companies' projects are going to be taken down by something that obvious to everyone? The device you are closest to when you say "Hey Siri" is the one that responds. Stop trying to be snarky, you just look uninformed.
That way you could get absolutely insane battery life while you're using those apps without compromising the flexibility of x86 on the entire system. Then apps could slowly be rewritten for ARM until there's no more dependence on x86.
I hope having the two CPU's alongside each other in the iMac Pro is a sign of things to come.
Side rant: I'm getting tired of the random posts about how saying "Hey Siri" is going to have your whole house responding to you at the same time. Do none of you own two Apple devices? Try it for yourself, jeez. You aren't geniuses that just figured out a glitch in Apple's master plan, this was obviously already taken care of the same as it has been on Google Assistant and Amazon Echo - why would you assume these devices can't be made aware of each other?? Do you really think that these multi billion dollar companies' projects are going to be taken down by something that obvious to everyone? The device you are closest to when you say "Hey Siri" is the one that responds. Stop trying to be snarky, you just look uninformed.
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That would be true if this were a google or amazon product.
I’ve gone a step further, my coffee machine is hooked into HomeKit, so I just get out of bed and say “hey Siri make me coffee” and there’s a lovely pot of freshly ground coffee waiting for me when I get downstairs.
Who said lazy can’t be fun
Why does Apple keep pushing siri on the desktop.. stop already
fwiw, you can currently use Siri to change volume as well..
"turn up the volume" (goes up ~10%)
"turn the volume all the way up"
"mute volume"
"set volume at 75%"
etc.
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so yeah.. future reference for you when it becomes fully voice controlled on Macs.
You're saying you want ARM versions of macOS apps (so, Photoshop, Logic, FCP, etc) and you want to run those on an A10 (or other ARM SoC)?
Maybe there is a time/place for such a machine, but what you're describing is not the iMac Pro. The iMac Pro will be the highest-end Mac, costing over $17,000 fully-specced. It can have up to 18 cores of the latest Xeon chips (up to 4.5Ghz, 42MB cache), up to 128GB of RAM, and contains AMD Vega workstation graphics with another 16GB VRAM. This thing is going to totally smoke any ARM SoC.
If Apple brings ARM CPUs to the Mac, it will start at the low/mid-range. They're not just going to walk in with something which can smash (or even compete with) the very best Intel and AMD chips.
Also, and very importantly: it needs to support the Pro apps already out there. The target customer likely has a set of Apps they already use regularly for their workflows, and they won't buy a machine which doesn't support them. Again, maybe they could do this with a special version of the Mac mini or iMac, and attempt to use those customers to build a library of compatible software, but the iMac Pro would be the wrong device to start the transition with.
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