In april zullen Apple Intelligence-functies worden uitgerold naar iPhone en iPad-gebruikers in de EU. Dit zal veel van de kernfuncties van Apple Intelligence bevatten, waaronder Schrijfhulp, Genmoji, een vernieuwde Siri met uitgebreider taalbegrip, ChatGPT-integratie en meer.Het aantal talen waarin je Apple Intelligence kunt gebruiken, wordt in rap tempo uitgebreid. Vanaf december is Apple Intelligence ook beschikbaar voor andere varianten van het Engels in Australië, Canada, Ierland, Nieuw‑Zeeland, het VK en Zuid‑Afrika. In april komt daar een reeks extra talen bij als onderdeel van een software-update, waarna in de loop van het jaar nog meer talen volgen. De ondersteuning wordt onder meer uitgebreid met Chinees, Duits, Engels (India), Engels (Singapore), Frans, Italiaans, Japans, Koreaans, Portugees, Spaans en Vietnamees.
.. dus heb je zin en tijd voor een kleine update
Maar wat moeten we ermee?
We all know Apple Intelligence has steep memory requirements, which is one factor why it’s only available on iOS devices with 8 GB or more of RAM. But 8 GB of RAM on a Mac is, practically speaking, less than 8 GB of RAM on an iPhone or iPad, because of the profound differences in how memory is managed and application life cycles work on MacOS. On MacOS, every app that looks like it’s running is actually running. And there’s no hard limit on how many apps you can run. Even if your Mac runs out of actual memory, MacOS will use swap files to handle the overflow. iOS doesn’t work that way. iOS freezes apps in the background, freeing up memory — and while M-series-based iPads do support a limited form of virtual memory swap, A-series-based iOS devices (including all iPhones) do not.Even taking Apple Intelligence out of the equation, Apple’s MacBook lineup was years overdue for a bump in base RAM. A few months ago David Schaub created a graph showing the base RAM of Apple laptops on a logarithmic scale since 1999. Today marks only the second time in the Tim Cook era that base Mac RAM went up. (Schaub made another graph for Mac desktops that goes all the way back to 1984, and the change in slope during the Cook era is even more striking on that chart.) Base RAM on Macs has been stuck at 8 GB since 2017. Even if you count the architecture transition from Intel x86 to Apple Silicon as a de facto bump in base memory — which is arguably fair, given the performance characteristics of an 8 GB Apple Silicon Mac compared to an 8 GB Intel Mac — Macs were still grossly overdue for a bump in base memory.So I’m not surprised that Apple took this opportunity to double base RAM in the M3 MacBook Air models. I am quite surprised, though, that they went as far as to double the base RAM even in the entry-level $999 M2 MacBook Air. Finally.
Apple Intelligence has steep memory requirements.It is only available on iOS devices with 8 GB or more of RAM.8 GB of RAM on a Mac is less than 8 GB of RAM on an iPhone or iPad due to differences in memory management and application life cycles on MacOS.On MacOS, every app that looks like it’s running is actually running, and there’s no hard limit on how many apps you can run.iOS freezes apps in the background, freeing up memory.M-series-based iPads support a limited form of virtual memory swap, but A-series-based iOS devices (including all iPhones) do not.Apple’s MacBook lineup was years overdue for a bump in base RAM.Base RAM on Macs has been stuck at 8 GB since 2017.Apple took this opportunity to double base RAM in the M3 MacBook Air models.They also doubled the base RAM in the entry-level $999 M2 MacBook Air.
En wat was het verhaal van de EU omtrend dit onderwerp ook alweer?
…they say that they will not do that because of the obligations that they have in Europe. And the obligations that they have in Europe, it is to be open for competition. That is sort of the short version of the DMA. And I find that very interesting that they say, we will now deploy AI where we’re not obliged to enable competition. I think that is the most sort of stunning open declaration that they know 100% that this is another way of disabling competition, where they have a stronghold already.