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Apple Announced Swift Assist at WWDC 2024... So Where Is It?
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It's really a bad era for Apple.
They miss all the opportunities, put lot of money in useless products and have lost their capacity to make people "dream" or show the future.
They have only kept the marketing language, they continue to rely on past innovations (iPhone) and earn more and more money, but they have completely lost their creativity and agility.
Apple is too big to move, they are still super good and innovative in hardware (chips) but software is nowhere and so far from agile competitors.
They miss all the opportunities, put lot of money in useless products and have lost their capacity to make people "dream" or show the future.
They have only kept the marketing language, they continue to rely on past innovations (iPhone) and earn more and more money, but they have completely lost their creativity and agility.
Apple is too big to move, they are still super good and innovative in hardware (chips) but software is nowhere and so far from agile competitors.
There is a Copilot plugin for Xcode, not super stable (as it needs hacks to integrate with Xcode), but very useful.
GitHub - github/CopilotForXcode: Xcode extension for GitHub Copilot
Xcode extension for GitHub Copilot. Contribute to github/CopilotForXcode development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
feels like we are still a tad immature for that as a species, but hopefully we'll get there
This is funny....Gruber drops his article criticizing Apple. The next day, after some moments of reflection, MacRumors authors realize they too can criticize Apple -- "Wait, we can actually say bad things about Apple that's frustrating the piss out of us? Cool!"
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We're now in the era of Apple where they've gained so much visibility in the marketplace and billions depend on their services daily that the release cycle must take longer before deploying them to the public for consumption. In theory, they should withhold their announcements until they can be released rather than staggered suggestions that fall flat.
100%.
But dev tools are equally as important, if not even more, and Apple needs to understand that. Because developers create millions of apps, which means millions of user experiences that extend the stock iOS.
Technically, with current hardware, it's impossible to have a complex LLM running locally.
Apple has announced that Swift assist will rely on their "private" cloud, it's impossible to make this running locally on normal Macs (or you will need to by an M4Ultra with 512Gb of RAM).
It's not an issue, it can be secure and private.
I think the "WWDC time" every June is not something sustainable now.
It's impossible to freeze one year of announcements and development in areas where news are coming every 2 weeks.
They should got to something more agile and showcase features end technologies when they are almost ready and don't try to pack everything in a monolithic keynote with long term promises that are obsolete before they ara available.
I'd guess it's more a case that there's a lot of dated code out there. Swift went through quite a rapid evolution, so if you look at answers on StackOverflow there's usually at least two or three new answers where the code has been updated to be compatible with the latest Swift syntax. Any AI being trained on that could miss that context and return a mishmash of code that mixes new and old syntax together (I had something similar with ChatGPT recently where it used "docker-control" and "docker control" interchangeably).
Swift:
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
var body: some View {
Text ("I found this on the web...")
}
}
It is part of the operating system. As I said, Apple deliberately chose to integrate their apps deeply into the OS, making them an integral part of it. They can’t even update them without updating the OS.
Certainly not good PR for apple. These two recent serious failings could really stick and damage apple's reputation. They need to be clear and only demonstrate features and tools that they can release. It's not a time to demonstrate ideas at such public events as WWDC. For all the hard work the teams have put in, it would be sad to see.
I wish apple would go back to
- not doing a full public release of features which are labelled 'in beta' to the public. (I should not be using premium consumer electronics with a warning saying 'this might not work' next to a button).
- not doing a full public release of features which are not labelled 'in beta' but are clearly not ready.
- not announcing things which aren't ready for release within 2 weeks.
Apple were at their best when they were late to the party, but the best dressed person there and owned the room. Now they still turn up late, but look an absolute mess, are already drunk and are rambling about how great they are.
- not doing a full public release of features which are labelled 'in beta' to the public. (I should not be using premium consumer electronics with a warning saying 'this might not work' next to a button).
- not doing a full public release of features which are not labelled 'in beta' but are clearly not ready.
- not announcing things which aren't ready for release within 2 weeks.
Apple were at their best when they were late to the party, but the best dressed person there and owned the room. Now they still turn up late, but look an absolute mess, are already drunk and are rambling about how great they are.
I didn’t quite say that. But I suppose what might help clear it up, is to say: Apple makes everything a big deal, and AI being no different, it is probably overblown. And perhaps in comparison to other manufacturers their products are a big deal.
(And excluding rumors) it is perhaps not every year, but I imagine if you watched every WWDC from the last 20 years you’d encounter nearly 20 announcements that never arrived within a reasonable timeframe stated (or just never released) everything from ‘iTunes sharing’ to that 3 device charger.