I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F… US monopolies

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Current implementation seems like overkill. Why not just:

    • Search “Eiffel tower”
    • send search term to Apple server that already exists (Apple Maps)
    • server returns gps coordinates for that term
    • photos app displays photos in order of nearest to those coordinates
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      2 days ago

      Because you took two selfies in a restaurant near there, made a huge stunning collage of a duck below the tower and a couple photos from a while away to get the whole tower in view.

      I’m running this tech at home, because we had the same use case. Except for me it’s running on a nas, not Apple’s servers. The location solution doesn’t quite work as well when you’re avid photographer

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        1 day ago

        If you read the article, you would know that the hard work is done locally on your iPhone not on apples server.

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          1 day ago

          If you read the article thoroughly you’d know that a smaller model runs locally, to get an guess that a landmark might be in a spot in the image. The actual identification and tagging is done in the cloud. The tag is then sent back.