Mac Power Users 826: 2025 State of the Platforms (Part 2)
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Dec 7, 2025 A deep dive into Apple's future reveals exciting developments! Discover the strengths of the iPhone 17, including its best-in-class display and professional features. The hosts share their personal iPhone preferences, weighing the benefits of lighter models against the capabilities of the Pro. Discussions also touch on the potential for vapor chambers in other devices and the reliability of iCloud services. Speculations about the future of folding iPhones and improving Apple services round out a comprehensive look at the evolving ecosystem.
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Filter Messages And Calls Aggressively
- Enable message and call filtering to keep spam and unknown callers out of your main inbox.
- Use recently deleted and spam filters to review filtered items occasionally to avoid missing legitimate messages.
Apple AI: Useful Tools, Bigger Promise
- Apple Intelligence shipped many small, useful on-device features but still lags in assistant-level capabilities.
- The promise of a private, powerful Siri remains unmet and shapes expectations for future AI work.
Private Cloud Compute Is A Practical Middle Ground
- Private Cloud Compute (PCC) gives users safer on-Apple LLM access and fits privacy-sensitive tasks well.
- PCC is not top-tier compared to large frontier models but is often adequate for personal, private transformations like journaling edits.
