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by dagmx 2y ago
Why would Apple make a dumb TV though? The Pro Display XDR exists because there’s nothing really comparable in the space with those specs and there’s a market to be had for it. The Studio display similarly exists because the only competitor
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by dagmx 2y ago
It’s very convenient that anything newly brought to market is not an innovation because it was presented as a concept somehwere but anything that isn’t new is simply a copy. There’s no room in that kind of discussion space to talk about the
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by dagmx 2y ago
Perhaps you could actually read my sentence and say that it allows running Android apps natively as a first class citizen. Which is also part of the linked press release. That they showed it with just Chrome is a presentation issue on their
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by dagmx 2y ago
True but does the average customer care that it’s running Android either?
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by dagmx 2y ago
XR is common as a name for the space. OpenXR, WebXR. Even visionOS is actually xrOS if you look at the SDK.
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by dagmx 2y ago
I think Apple picked the right direction to launch with as their primary interaction method. Controllers would be nice but as a secondary input. Google are apparently not mandating eye tracking or hand tracking. Which is nice for flexibili
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by dagmx 2y ago
And the verge blog post about it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/24319528/google-android-... Seems like a very similar direction to visionOS. I’m glad Apple normalized the ability to run mobile apps
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Android XR(blog.google)
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by dagmx 2y ago
Oh please, this is the classic “everyone who chooses differently than myself is <superficial/dumb/misinformed>” argument that a lot of people use when it comes to tech nerd identity politics. Is it really that hard to imagin
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by dagmx 2y ago
There’s an easy solution here: Apple isn’t trying to compete with the big models everyone else is running. They’re betting in the opposite direction that many small models is a better value ad for their customers. And they can call out to o
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by dagmx 2y ago
Inference costs per invocation aren’t high. Scale it out to billions of users and it’s a different story. Training is amortized over each inference, so the cost of inference also needs to include the cost of training to break even unless ma
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by dagmx 2y ago
You’re assuming the model is purely for generation though. Several of the Gemini features are lookup of things across data available to it. A lot of that data can be local to device. That is currently Apple’s path with Apple Intelligence fo
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by dagmx 2y ago
Many major cities have significant dead spots for coverage. It’s not just for developing areas. Flash is free for api use at a low rate limit. Gemini as a whole is not free to Android users (free right now with subscription costs beyond a t
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by dagmx 2y ago
My point is that you do NOT need the same level of performance. You need an adequate level of performance that the cost to get more performance isn’t worth it to most people.
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by dagmx 2y ago
You’re still focused about training :) training doesn’t matter if inference costs are high and people don’t pay for them
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by dagmx 2y ago
And you can’t run the cloud model at all if you can’t talk to the cloud.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Your first sentence has the fallacy that you’re attributing the cost of the device to a single feature against the cost of that single feature. Most people are unlikely to buy the device for the AI features alone. It’s a value add to the de
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by dagmx 2y ago
At what point does the on device stuff eat into their market share though? As on device gets better, who will pay for cloud compute? Other than enterprise use. I’m not saying on device will ever truly compete at quality, but I believe it’ll
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by dagmx 2y ago
They’ll care though when they have to pay for it, or when they’re in an area with poor reception.
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by dagmx 2y ago
Regarding TPU’s, sure for the stuff that’s running on the cloud. However their on device TPUs lag behind the competition and Google still seem to struggle to move significant parts of Gemini to run on device as a result. Of course, Gemini i
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by dagmx 2y ago
This is partially the result of being taught that every opinion is valid. What was taught as a nicety (don’t dismiss other people’s opinions was the intention) has evolved into all opinions are equal. If all opinions are equal, and we’ve re
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by dagmx 2y ago
Yeah, totally. It’s not even just bad work, but I’m constantly breaking down shots as I’m watching them. Especially because I’ve done both on set and virtual production, it’s hard to suspend disbelief in a lot of films.
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by dagmx 2y ago
I’m sorry, but you make an absurd argument. You’re taking the best films of an era and comparing them to an arbitrary list of movies you don’t like? Adding to that, you’re comparing it to films in the infancy of a technology? This is peak c
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by dagmx 2y ago
Yep I’ve had that happen many times , where people assume my work is real and the practical is CG. Worse, directors often lie about what’s practical and we’ll have replaced it with CG. So people online will cheer the “practicals” as being b
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by dagmx 2y ago
Most people have terrible eyes for distinguishing content. I’ve worked in CG for many years and despite the online nerd fests that decry CG imagery in films, 99% of those people can’t tell what’s CG or not unless it’s incredibly obvious. It
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by dagmx 2y ago
You can do foley today for free already. If you’re primarily talking about the time commitment as cost, anyone who doesn’t have the time won’t care about foley to begin with. It’s an attention to detail that someone turning to automated too
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by dagmx 2y ago
Their design license doesn’t extend to Nuvia’s IP however according to ARM. That is the entire crux of the issue. ARM gave Nuvia a specific license, and then Nuvia was acquired which transferred the IP to a license that ARM did not extend i
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by dagmx 2y ago
There’s a very clear bias and idolization in this comment of yours which is based on a misunderstanding of the case at hand. ARM aren’t trying to force Qualcomm to use ARMs cores. They’re trying to force them to update the licensing royalti
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by dagmx 2y ago
Being a customer shouldn’t protect a company from lawsuits. ARM feels they have merit here , just like Qualcomm did when they sued Apple. It’s not that rare in the corporate setting to have suits between companies with otherwise amicable re
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by dagmx 2y ago
Ableton is king for electronic music, but isn’t a very strong DAW for general audio work outside of that. there’s a lot of genres out there and Logic is still considered one of the best for general DAWs out there.

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