🤡 Samsung trolls Apple using a real guy named Tim Cook

📱 Samsung's New Zealand branch dropped (as usual) a parody video starring an actual resident of Palmerston North named Tim Cook. This full namesake of Apple's former CEO showed up on camera holding a foldable Galaxy Z Fold 8.

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🛝 No one's talking about what Apple did with AI

🔜 iOS 27 drops September 14 as an update, and Siri now clever got rebuilt from the ground up.

🧠 Siri now gets things done, not just answers
If give her access to your calendar and email, and she'll sort messages, book meetings, and follow a task through inside the apps you already use. Onstage demo : a guy walks through a market talking to Siri, and she builds his shopping list live.

🤖 Other new AI bits:
• Record a conversation = it turns into a structured note with action items
• Ask Siri to watch a webpage = she pings you when it changes
• Apple Watch now estimates biological age and suggests workouts

📆 The catch
Siri AI launches in beta, English only with more languages promised later this year. iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Not available in the EU or China at launch.

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🍎 So, how do you like the new iOS and Golden Gate macOS?

What's new, general:

🤪 New Siri – understands on-screen context, in-app actions, and has broader world knowledge (iPhone 15 Pro / 16 and newer)
🛝 Siri Camera – ask questions right from the Camera app, even split a restaurant bill
🖋 Write with Siri – writing help in Messages and Mail, adapts to your personal style
🌼 Photos – Clean Up, Extend, and perspective changes after you've already taken the shot
🧭 Safari – smart tab grouping, page-change tracking, custom extensions on request
🛝 Image Playground – new generation model, including photorealistic style
💠 Shortcuts and Calendar now understand plain natural language for creating things
🔒 More parental control tools
🎛 Liquid Glass is more flexible styling (from fully transparent to fully tinted)
🔋 Better performance and energy efficiency system-wide

P.S. Some Apple Intelligence features are still limited by region and language.

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📱 iPhone 18 Pro reviews are in: great camera, better battery, no big surprises

🧐 First reviews of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are out, and the verdict is familiar: solid upgrade, nothing revolutionary. One reviewer described it essentially as last year's Pro with a better chip, camera, and bigger battery, plus new colors to help people spot the new models.

📸 Camera: New variable aperture (f/1.48–f/4) boosts low-light shots and daytime bokeh, plus new shutter-speed and film-grain options.

🧠 Performance: A20 Pro chip runs demanding games smoothly; bigger vapor chamber keeps it cooler.

🔋 Battery: Biggest win — 18 Pro Max hit 34.5 hours of HD video playback, 2 hours more than last year.

🏝 Dynamic Island is 25% smaller and now shows 3 notifications at once.

✏️ Same overall design as before, and the aluminum camera bump edges still scratch easily = a known issue Apple reportedly isn't fixing.

📅 Sales start tomorrow, September 18. Base 18 Pro (256GB) starts at $1,199.

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📱 Apple rolled out a massive global campaign for the iPhone Duo

📍 Samsung, of course, couldn't resist. They swooped in and bought the billboard right next to Apple's ad at Delhi Airport, putting up their own clapback right beside it.

Classic: Apple announces and Samsung claps back within hours. The rivalry never sleeps 🍿

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