Re:Apple Introduces Apple Music Sing
by RC_ITR on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @01:20PM
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>There's a reason Apple's preferring on-device processing:
It makes it so you have to buy new devices sooner.
The privacy thing is a nice side-benefit and PR thing, but let's be realistic here.
EDIT: Just to remind everyone, we are literally in a thread about a new device feature that is trivial to do in the cloud, which Apple chooses to do on-device, which makes it only a feature for its newest generation of products...
It makes it so you have to buy new devices sooner.
The privacy thing is a nice side-benefit and PR thing, but let's be realistic here.
EDIT: Just to remind everyone, we are literally in a thread about a new device feature that is trivial to do in the cloud, which Apple chooses to do on-device, which makes it only a feature for its newest generation of products...