I do miss the days of Jobs where they had good secrecy. The leaks make it so anti-climactic now
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Everything We're Expecting to See at the WWDC 2024 Keynote
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My apologies for misunderstanding then.
However, 99.9% of the professional developers who I know will scan existing company source (or their own saved samples) for an example. Google and ChatGPT are a last resort.
No insult intended here, but using ChatGPT is mainly for the inexperienced programmers or in the rare cases where the experienced are researching a specific but somewhat odd or esoteric problem/solution.
Of course the major AI stuff is gonna come to the 15 and up. They do that so you buy a newer phone. Meanwhile I’m sure most of the older phones can handle it. Also I wouldn’t not expect any real design change.
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I don’t have spare Macs and devices to beta test this year 🥲🥲🥲🥲
I don’t do dual booting anymore especially with betas as they also install beta firmware on work machines.
I don’t do dual booting anymore especially with betas as they also install beta firmware on work machines.
In addition to this, ChatGPT scans StackOverflow (and other web sources), which have a lot, let me repeat this, a lot of garbage code. You know the old saying "garbage in, garbage out".
I’m such a geek. The closer we get to keynote the more excited I’m getting. Even though Apple has been a day late and a dollar short in the AI department thinking back to Steve Jobs, and yes I know Tim Cook isn’t Steve Jobs but Jobs did hand pick him for a reason, Apple is rarely the first company on the scene to deliver a product. They aren’t first to market but instead tend to sit back and figure out how they can use their integrated hardware and software based approach to do it better than their competitors. The iPod wasn’t the first portable digital music player, iTunes wasn’t the first software designed to manager a digital music library, Apple wasn’t the first vendor to offer up digital music for sale through an online store (though they were the first I can remember to convince the large music publishers who held the keys to kingdom to trust a technology and it’s DRM enough to make huge portions of their music library available in electronic format for $0.99 cents a track …maybe Amazon did it first … I don’t quite recall), they weren’t the first to make a cell phone nor a smart phone, they weren’t the first to market with a smart watch, not even close to the first to market with a VR headset (whatever you think of the Vision Pro and it’s price I’ve yet to experience any other VR headset with the features and potential it has) and now, once again, they won’t be the first to market with AI.
Here’s to hoping they learned a ton of hard lessons from Apple Maps. It took years but Apple Maps became my mapping software of choice due to it’s integration with the Apple ecosystem and so Apple does have the ability to start from way behind and catch up to produce something that may not be the best but does enough things well enough that combined with it’s integration with the ecosystem ultimately delivers enough to satisfy the majority of it’s users.
I am happy that Apple has chosen to part with OpenAI instead of Google for it’s chatbot though if I were Apple I’d keep the door and negotiations with Google open. Having a choice about which AI technology you want to use in iOS for chat bot related features does have it’s own rather interesting set of advantages should they ever come to mutually beneficial terms in negations with Google. I have no doubt Apple is working on it’s own technology and in a few years we’ll see it. Let’s just hope when they do finally make the switch the product is more up to snuff than Apple Maps was when it debuted, though I do understand at some point you have to rip the band aid off and release what you’ve got to allow users to have at it. Perhaps this technology would be one best left in beta form with either OpenAI or Google’s technology still available as a bridge within iOS or perhaps even an option where end users can choose which LLM implementation they want to work with as a part of settings up an iOS device for the first time. What? One can dream, right? 😉
Now feel free to pee all over my pancakes and tell me what an idiot I am for still having some faith they have enough talent left to be able to deliver in time even if iOS 18 is only the beginning and most of these AI features are in beta at launch. Marc Gurman does make one very salient point in his most recent Power On newsletter. Apple is going to have to get rid of this “one massive yearly update” release cadence at some point sooner rather than later as the trip down AI lane seems as if it’s going to require a bit of a round the clock effort to keep up.
Here’s to hoping they learned a ton of hard lessons from Apple Maps. It took years but Apple Maps became my mapping software of choice due to it’s integration with the Apple ecosystem and so Apple does have the ability to start from way behind and catch up to produce something that may not be the best but does enough things well enough that combined with it’s integration with the ecosystem ultimately delivers enough to satisfy the majority of it’s users.
I am happy that Apple has chosen to part with OpenAI instead of Google for it’s chatbot though if I were Apple I’d keep the door and negotiations with Google open. Having a choice about which AI technology you want to use in iOS for chat bot related features does have it’s own rather interesting set of advantages should they ever come to mutually beneficial terms in negations with Google. I have no doubt Apple is working on it’s own technology and in a few years we’ll see it. Let’s just hope when they do finally make the switch the product is more up to snuff than Apple Maps was when it debuted, though I do understand at some point you have to rip the band aid off and release what you’ve got to allow users to have at it. Perhaps this technology would be one best left in beta form with either OpenAI or Google’s technology still available as a bridge within iOS or perhaps even an option where end users can choose which LLM implementation they want to work with as a part of settings up an iOS device for the first time. What? One can dream, right? 😉
Now feel free to pee all over my pancakes and tell me what an idiot I am for still having some faith they have enough talent left to be able to deliver in time even if iOS 18 is only the beginning and most of these AI features are in beta at launch. Marc Gurman does make one very salient point in his most recent Power On newsletter. Apple is going to have to get rid of this “one massive yearly update” release cadence at some point sooner rather than later as the trip down AI lane seems as if it’s going to require a bit of a round the clock effort to keep up.
Nice post. I won’t piss on your pancakes but I’ll say this: AI is entirely in its infancy. It is currently a solution in search of a problem, and I’m sick to the back teeth of seeing brands and manufacturers putting half-baked AI implementation into everything with scant regard for whether it’s actually useful or not.
So I don’t think Apple is behind at all, and their track record should suggest them being thoughtful about what and why.
I agree completely but I will say this about ChatGPT. I find it infinitely more useful than Siri when I want some quick information verbally without having to manually search for it and if they can integrate it into Siri while juicing Siri up so it can take actions within apps and do a much better job than it appears that it can now understanding what I’m asking it with ability to ask follow up questions or give it additional follow up directions / commands I’d be a pretty happy guy.
The ability to quickly and easily summarize information and do things like suggest replies to e-mails written in something resembling my “voice” in terms of style and grammar would also be very, very useful to me. The other thing I think I’d love would be the ability to feed an AI a series of, say PDF documents, and then be able to have it both be able to summarize the content of those documents or parts of those documents but also ask questions about their contents and not just specifics of the text itself but be able to have it extract some statistics (what percentage of the documents contain positive, neutral or negative language about “x” where I can specify “x”, etc.) would be huge but it’s not something I expect to see there right out of the gate or anytime soon. That’s a wish list kind of item.
Anything above and beyond that I don’t see much use for and am skeptical of myself.
Here’s the problem with ChatGPT: it can be very useful, but it also has a habit of giving completely inaccurate information (to the point that it has fabricated sources!) while confidently answering questions. This was a major reason that I stopped using it for serious work, I simply couldn’t trust it. If I’ve got to fact check it then I may as well do it myself in the first place.
It has its utility of course, but it’s simply unreliable in many aspects.
Yeah these kinds of things are where AI can be really useful. FWIW Spark Mail has useful AI implementation including email summary and responses. I want to see Apple allow Siri to create shortcuts on command, so if I say “Siri, create a shortcut that asks me if I want to launch Music or Podcasts when my AirPods are connected” it actually does it. I despise the Shortcuts app and its lack of intuitiveness.
This is why I’m curious to see what Apple does. Under Jobs, you just know it wouldn’t be released until they could do something genuinely good. I remember when I used to have Samsung phones and was forever irritated at the amount of useless apps and features that were there just so Samsung could say “it can do this and that” despite it being borderline useless.
I saw someone post online last week that I think CGPT had gone down and they were lost. They realised how much of their brain they had outsourced to AI tools. I know the genie is out of the bottle and we aren’t going back, but this is one of my primary concerns with AI.
I use Spark. I turned off the AI features. They create more problems than they solve IMO.
Tomorrow's my first day of a new job, so I probably won't have any time to sneak a peak at the news because of onboarding stuff and training. Going to be a tough wait before I get out at 4pm lol
Not a lot of Mac rumors. I wonder if it’s just going to be a small update.
Trust me my man, I knew what I was writing. Are you the “super fun guy at parties” type?
Me too as this is the only Apple thing I use. I am hoping that I have made the wrong choice ion chaging to a MAc from Windows and Apple don't start forcing stuff onto us like MS have in Windows
Even though the Mac/Apple news and rumor sites have reiterated many times there will be no hardware announcements, ppl will still whine about "most boring keynote ever," and "nothing announced" and "Apple has failed, fire Tim Cook," "miss the Jobs days," etc.
It will be a race to see who can muster up the biggest yawn and eye roll.
Generally people grasp that the event is WWDC. The World Wide Developer’s Conference. It isn’t a hardware event. It’s a software event.