Say what you will about their Mice, but they still have the best trackpads, internal or external, on the market.
And it’s not even particularly close.
Even the trackpad on the MacBook Neo is better than almost any other track pad on the market.
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Apple Could Build an OpenClaw Competitor Eventually
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And it’s not even particularly close.
Even the trackpad on the MacBook Neo is better than almost any other track pad on the market.
I could see something like this coming to the Mac initially in Xcode (i.e. for devs) and then rolling out to other Mac users later on - and then finally the iPhone.
Agents are obviously part of the future, but it's early days.
We, as a society, need to see how early adopters are using it - and Apple as a platform owner needs to work out how to roll something like this out...
...Without allowing users to shoot themselves in the foot.
Agents are obviously part of the future, but it's early days.
We, as a society, need to see how early adopters are using it - and Apple as a platform owner needs to work out how to roll something like this out...
...Without allowing users to shoot themselves in the foot.
ChamomileTea
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Apple may eventually build a direct competitor to OpenClaw, an agentic AI system capable of autonomously operating software on behalf of the user, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman believes.
Writing in his Power On newsletter, Gurman says he expects Apple to develop a system that could fully operate iPhone, iPad, and Mac software on the user's behalf. The prediction comes on the back of comments made by Apple's Siri engineering chief, Mike Rockwell, following last week's WWDC keynote.
Rockwell appeared to leave the door open for Siri to expand beyond its current capabilities, describing the new engine underpinning the assistant as "a completely modern architecture" built with extensibility in mind:
Apple's SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, acknowledged the broader category but was measured in his framing of it, describing the space as experimental and saying that finding the right user experience remains the priority, while stopping short of ruling out Apple's eventual participation.
Apple's upcoming Siri implementation is newly rebuilt on a large language model foundation, and remains a request-based system. Full computer-use agentic functionality of the kind offered by OpenClaw and similar tools from Google and Anthropic would represent a significant expansion beyond what Apple announced last week.
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It seems to be a project that you would expect an operating system company to develop.
Not TV shows.
nathan_reilly
macrumors 6502
This is the thing many people don't realize. It's easy to hate AI right now for many reasons, but this is when it is in many ways less capable than humans. But if and when it gets to a point that it's so capable that it can do for you everything you don't want to do and does it as well as you or better, then it will invariably save you significant time and money which people value maybe above all else, and then it will be hard to hate. Rather, people will overlook any and all fundamental issues they may have with AI and instead insist on having it. And then even if AI starts doing the things you do want to do (ie. your job) and displacing you, and becomes an existential threat to society, it will be too hard to put the genie back in the bottle, not because people can't but because they won't want to, or at least no one will want to be the first to.
PBG4 Dude
macrumors 603
I’m running an M5 Max MBP w/128GB RAM. I bastardized a guide Apple put on their YouTube WWDC page because their instructions didn’t work.
Basically I set up a server on oMLX to serve Qwen3.6. Important thing was I had to put oMLX into “developer” mode so I could use it without an API key. Then I set up a “localhost” connection to port 8000 using Xcode 27’s local connection setup option.
Once I completed this setup, I was able to send queries to my local model from inside Xcode. Xcode managed the model and pulled in the generated code.
I did not follow a guide to write the code. I created a new macOS app, then requested a new view with the animated analog clock face.
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That was true many years ago, but is it still true today? It certainly wasn't true for Vision Pro. The consumer tech industry has largely caught up to Apple. I'd argue that Apple still offers the best user experience overall, the best ecosystem, etc., but there's no denying that other companies are offering very capable and comparable products these days. The other night my Apple TV died, so I decided to login to my SONY TV's built-in apps. I was actually very surprised by how well they all work and don't see the need to buy a new Apple TV now.
Steve Jobs clearly had some sort of ability to read the tea leaves in a way others could not, but I'm not seeing that same gift in any of the current Apple C-suite. They'll all surely very capable people doing great work, but I don't see the vision. Apple sprinted ahead with the iPhone but their pace slowed eventually while others gained speed. Now all of these companies offer comparable products and the "vision" from all of them seems about the same to me.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
That’s like saying that it’s the best serial killer. Trackpads are painful for any precision work. Absolutely useless.
madebybela
macrumors 6502
*looks at the record profit being brought in by the current iPhone lineup, The constant improvement being brought to visionOS and the response to last week’s announcements*
Working out pretty well, actually.
Also, anyone could do The cynical “Apple bad because niche product” argument at any time in their history.
The original Apple TV was $300 and sold like crap, iTunes ping was a disaster, and MobileMe was even worse. All within a 3 1/2 year time span. Oh yeah, Apple from 2007 to 2010, truly a flop of a company. I mean, iAds? Anyone remember those?
Beta 1 is actually very promising. Already gaining confidence every day I use it.
johnsawyercjs
macrumors 68000
Apple has a pretty variable track record on both of those counts, including fixing things that people want fixed.
johnsawyercjs
macrumors 68000
I don't know if it can do that yet, but at its current stage of development, it can change some system settings.
On my iPhone, I asked New Siri if it could also change settings in iOS apps, including making changes to specific files like those in the Notes app, and it said no. Specifically I wanted it to create a new file in Notes, and make it a checklist, but while it was able to create the new Notes file, it was unable to set it to be a checklist, and said I'd have to go into the Notes app and make that change myself.
So at least on iOS, it seems the only app settings it can currently change are those that appear in System Settings (which is where most of them appear anyway), and I suspect the same is true on iPadOS and macOS.