I barely use my phone as anything more than a glorified pager. I don't need fucking AI.
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I think the battery system that's best for everyone would be user-replaceable batteries. That way you can have an extra battery on hand to swap in as needed, or even extra-capacity batteries that make your phone a little thicker for people who are okay with that.
Those of us who do actually prefer thinner, lighter phones can still have them (maybe with a slight increase in thickness to accommodate the attachment mechanisms). Plus bigger batteries are a huge waste of resources if the capacity isn't going to be used.
Do people here actually use AI? And if so…for what?
Summarizing, drafting things, understanding complex things that are filled with jargon, etc.
People are treating AI like crypto, and on some level I don't blame them because a lot of hype-bros moved from crypto to AI. You can blame the silicon valley hype machine + Wall Street rewarding and punishing companies for going all in or not doing enough, respectively, for the Lemmy anti-new-tech tenor.
That and lemmy seema full of angsty asshats and curmudgeons that love to dogpile things. They feel like they have to counter balance the hype. Sure, that's fair.
But with AI there is something there.
I use all sorts of AI on a daily basis. I'd venture to say most everyone reading this uses it without even knowing.
I set up my server to transcribe and diarize my my favorite podcasts that I've been listening to for 20 years. Whisper transcribes, pyannote diarieizes, gpt4o uses context clues to find and replace "speaker01" with "Leo", and the. It saves those transcripts so that I can easily switch them. It's a fun a hobby thing but this type of thing is hugely useful and applicable to large companies and individuals alike.
I use kagi's assistant (which basically lets you access all the big models) on a daily basis for searching stuff, drafting boilerplate for emails, recipes, etc.
I have a local llm with ragw that I use for more personal stuff like, I had it do the BS work for my performance plan using notes I'd taken from the year. I've had it help me reword my resume.
I have it parse huge policy memos into things I actually might give a shit about.
I've used it to run though a bunch of semi-structured data on documents and pull relevant data. It's not necessarily precise but it's accurate enough for my use case.
There is a tool we use that uses CV to do sentiment analysis of users (as they use websites/apps) so we can improve our ux / cx. There's some ml tooling that also can tell if someone's getting frustrated. By the way, they're moving their mouse if they're thrashing it or what not.
There's also a couple use cases that I think we're looking at at work to help eliminate bias so things like parsing through a bunch of resumes. There's always a human bias when you're doing that and there's evidence that shows llms can do that with less bias than a human and maybe it'll lead to better results or selections.
So I guess all that to say is I find myself using AI or ml llms on a pretty frequent basis and I see a lot of value in what they can provide. I don't think it's going to take people's jobs. I don't think it's going to solve world hunger. I don't think it's going to do much of what the hypros say. I don't think we're anywhere near AGI, but I do think that there is something there and I think it's going to change the way we interact with our technology moving forward and I think it's a great thing.
I use it to summarize things for me. Or rewrite something I’ve written a bit better. I usually need to spot check it, but it’s still nice to have.
2010: We want bigger batteries, they give us colorful phones
2015 We want bigger batteries, they give us 1mm thinner phones
2020 We want bigger batteries, they give us 5 cameras
2025 We want bigger batteries, they give us AI
Phones are a great example of the utter failure of capitalism to address what people actually need and want.
I would like colourful phones back though, they were so much more fun compared to the sea of black/white/grey + ONE option in the blue-purple spectrum we have today.
Can we get that AND bigger batteries?...bigger colourful batteries even?
And cameras! Don't replace 12mp 2x telephotos with 48mp 1x digital zoom cameras pls
It would be mice to have better battery life.
2008 and onwards.
Edit: was so confused about the answers til I noticed the error :-p
Still got to feed the mice if you want to keep your battery topped off. 😉
I just got a 16 Pro. I still have my 7 Plus. Form factor of 7 plus is still the best of any of the iPhones, for my money. It feels THE best in-hand.
I got a 16 pro max and it’s horrible without a pop socket.
With a pop socket, it’s the best sized phone I’ve ever had.
It feels like yesterday some guy was arguing against me here on Lemmy about my personal choice of wanting a longer battery life.
WELL LOOK AT ME NOW BRO
No bro, it's totally better to get 5-6 hours of battery and AI cause like it's so incredible bro
Give me back my physical keyboard, and I'll be happy alongside better battery life (or removable batteries).
The last thing I want is a phone I can mistake for a table mat when I'm tired, which I feel is how phones are going. What's the new average screen size now? 27" or is that next year's model?
I just want a persistent number row. There's plenty of room. Why can't I have that, Apple? What possible benefit is there to anyone, of you holding that back?
I miss the formfactor of my Nokia E7....
My favourite keyboard was on my BlackBerry Bold 2.(9700 I think was the model number). The keys were shaped in a way that made touch typing an absolute breeze with the perfect amount of tactile feedback.
Meh, phisical keyboards are a pain if you think how much hardware failure you add. At least now if you know what you are doing, you can keep alive a phone for a decade with custom roms
I don't get what those companies try to achieve by automating writing (by spewing statistically probable prose), reading (by badly summarizing text cobbled from excerpts without the ability to make any sense of it), art, photography, music, all standardized to the lowest common denominator.
I'm not buying a new device that will try to impose any of this hype. For now, Apple has decided to "punish" the users in the European Union by holding the Apple Intelligence features hostage. FINE BY ME!
edit: typo/phrasing
Yea. There are very few machine learning driven features that would actually improve my life in a meaningful way. I feel much more „punished“ by the omission of iPhone mirroring on mac than any Apple Intelligence feature.
Serious question: What would you do with iPhone mirroring? Because I have it, and I have no idea what to do with it.
Having it open on my mac while I’m working on it so I can access message apps that don’t work on the desktop without having to take out my phone.
In all fairness, it’s not really necessary, but it‘d make my life a little easier for a use case I actually have.
I’m guessing you are using 3rd party message apps? If so, that makes perfect sense. Work smarter, not harder.
Yea. Although I do use iMessage with a few people, it’s not really a big thing here in Germany, so I also do use different apps. The main app, that requires me to get out my phone, is Snapchat, as there’s no desktop app and the webapp sucks.
When I replaced my 5 year old phone the only two benefits I saw was OLED screen (never going without again) and the battery life going from maybe a day to like 40 hours
I just replaced my iPhone older than six years old with a 16 Pro Max… OLED to OLED, but now 120hz. Magnificent. And yeah, the battery lasts forever now.