Steven Philips on Apple not on Iran's hit list - 'By vote of the people? 🙁'
on Mark Gurman: Foldable iPhone opens into an iPad mini running iOS - 'I can’t see the point of a foldable apart from it being a gimmick . If Jobs were still here would he approve? I don’t think so. Ives would also surely disapprove and I’m pretty sure Dietre Rams wouldn’t agree with a fold. I suspect that Jobs would have allowed the Pencil because by the time it was released Apple have proved that you could operate an iPhone or iPad with your finger. It’s the same with Apple’s philosophy on the mouse, everything could be done with one button. I’m sure the last time I bought an Apple mouse it was configured to a single click. A fold is a complication on so many levels.'
on Mark Gurman: Foldable iPhone opens into an iPad mini running iOS - 'Apple is “under pressure.” Spare us the hyperbole…'
on PC makers shocked, shocked by Apple's MacBook Neo - 'Since this settlement, I can’t think of anything significant that Apple doesn’t control in its products. Well, they did drop their home networking lne of products, which is a key part of connecting i-Everything to the I-nternet…. I still think that was a significant mistake on the part of Apple. Ubiquiti tries to be “The Apple of Networking,” and they’re getting a lot better at achieving ‘it just works’. But their focus is not home networking, but commercial settings. I’m not sure there’s any other reasonable alternative that has the expected level of quality, user friendliness, and security. (I do have Ubiquiti stuff at home, replacing my old Airport Extreme.)'
on Apple not on Iran's hit list - 'You assume this administration is capable of analysis and foresight- neither exhibited thus far'
on Apple not on Iran's hit list - 'More proof that the present US leadership wrongly assumed that this would be another Venezuela.'
on Why Apple hasn't released a glucose monitor - 'Quantitative analysis of glucose in the blood is really, really difficult using some sort of non-invasive technique with lasers. It is possible to detect glucose with Raman spectrometers, quantitation is much harder. Normal glucose levels are only around 0.1%. This measurement is not performed in distilled water, this is in blood which contains all sorts of other molecules which can skew results. I did see some interesting research on blood pressure. As I recall they correlated the arrival time of increased blood pressure in the capillaries after measuring a heart beat electrically. This is a promising way to non-invasively measuring BP. I imagine long before we see devices like these in the Apple Watch we’ll see some sort of armband to measure things and transmit them the results to either the Watch or iPhone.'
on Why Apple hasn't released a glucose monitor - 'Heart attacks are usually not related to high blood sugar levels. The worse case scenario is a diabetic coma, whereas a coma actually puts less stress on the heart than a body up and walking around. But if a heart attack accurs in close proximity to high blood sugar levels, it does create a correlation. And a correlation is all the lawyers want, even if the correlation is not related to any cause and effect.'
on Why Apple hasn't released a glucose monitor - 'This case of incorrect readings from a glucose monitor and the resulting lawsuit is an example of just one of the issues Apple has to consider when navigating the legal minefield of medical measurements on their devices I don’t think it is the only reason they have for slowly adopting these features. In general Apple is a deep pocket for someone to target for a lawsuit of almost any kind so they probably plan for a certain amount of this. Without knowing the “state of the art” of glucose monitoring in the technology Apple already has in the Watch it is hard to say if Apple is holding back or hasn’t satisfied itself that their solution is worth the potential hassle or just not good enough. Maybe the best technological solution is not an easy legal one. Same thing with Blood Pressure readings. I see Apps which promise blood pressure readings on an Iphone using an app and the camera but no similar Apple product. Maybe they like the shield of someone writing an independent app or they don’t see the value add of providing their own version yet. I think they are rightly gun-shy at releasing a new feature which makes them vulnerable to a whole host of legal and patent issues so they really have to nail down all of these things before they take the leap. Just look at how difficult the Blood oxygen measurement fight has been. Personally I blame the legal system. But at some point if it is worth it Apple will navigate these issues and provide a solution if they believe in it.'
on Mark Gurman: Foldable iPhone opens into an iPad mini running iOS - 'David: “I think a foldable iPad Mini that expands to the size of an open paperback makes more sense, specifically as an easy to carry book reading device.” The product you’d like will be introduced two years out from the iPhone Fold. It will be called the iPhone Fold Max. Don’t tell Gurman, OK?'
on Premarket: Apple is red - '”I think we will look back on Iran and Venezuela as the start of WWIII” WWIII began in the ‘50s. The difference today is that the main protagonists (the Soviet Union, East Germany, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Cuba, on the State level, and the PLO, ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah on the non-State level) have been, or are being, neutralized. Even China walks softly so as to not upset its export economy'
on Tim Cook's letter to Apple's 2.5 billion 'crazy ones' - 'AI on the edge is part of Apple’s “thinking differently” from the mainstream. An article I found on Macworld talks about Perplexity using Mac mini’s for local AI use. “Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a Mac mini running an AI OS Macs are quietly becoming the AI agent PC of choice.” From the story: “On Wednesday, Perplexity announced Personal Computer, an AI agent that “runs continuously, merging your local applications with Perplexity Computer.” The system runs on Perplexity’s “secure servers,” but what hardware does it all run on? An M4 Mac mini. Perplexity explains that its Personal Computer “works in a secure environment with clear safeguards. Sensitive actions require approval, and every session includes a full audit trail. A kill switch gives users immediate control.” The platform was built on Perplexity’s existing foundation and ensures that every query runs in its own “secure sandbox.” It’s not the first time Apple’s tiny PC made headlines as an AI tool. In January, social media was overrun with people running the free, open-source AI assistant Clawdbot on stacks of Mac minis before Anthropic killed the buzz. Perplexity calls Personal Computer “more powerful than any AI system ever launched.” We don’t know yet which Mac mini it will be running on, but we assume it has the maximum RAM (64GB on the M4 Pro) model and a giant hard drive. It’s also unclear whether Apple is supplying the company with Mac minis or whether Perplexity is simply using off-the-shelf units.” It’s a big Mac Mini they require, true, but it IS a Mac mini. Next year, it might not need the fully loaded model. ***I’d share a link, but I can’t seem to comment at all in a post in which I tried sharing a link earlier, so you’ll have to go find the article.'
on Why Apple hasn't released a glucose monitor - 'Hi David. For serious riding I do the North Shore (called “the shore”) in North Van – then Whistler (think “Lord of the Squirrels”) and the bike park. On Vancouver Island it’s the mountains near Victoria and Sooke. Some of the riding is easier and some it downright scary.'
on Tim Cook's letter to Apple's 2.5 billion 'crazy ones' - 'That was a great show at computer museum last night! On the 50 years Apple'
on Why Apple hasn't released a glucose monitor - 'Exactly what David wrote. If using a Libre sensor (mine is Libre3), you are advised to stick your finger to confirm obviously errant readings. I happened to have two of the Libre3 monitors fail in the low-reading mode. They were supposedly ‘good’, as the recall did not include them, but they were obviously faulty. But make no mistake, the monitors are a God-send for folks with type 2. I wear one all the time. (But I choose ‘Smarties’ as my midnight repair 🙂'
on Why Apple hasn't released a glucose monitor - 'Absolutely David – stop making sense. Tell that to the ambulance-chasing lawyers.'
