Amazingly, the Apple Music App has me longing for what I had with iTunes.
I was so bummed to lose the ability to use it via Retroactive. 😞
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Amazingly, the Apple Music App has me longing for what I had with iTunes.
I was so bummed to lose the ability to use it via Retroactive. 😞
No..
No thank you whatsoever on "politics aside"
Apple: either stand for something or you stand for nothing.
Very interesting to hear Apple is having trouble keeping AI talent. As I have said for the past three years, I do not think it makes sense for Apple to have its own money losing, compute expensive chatbot. Let the other companies lose money on that and just use their systems until they go bankrupt and buy them for pennies on the dollar.
OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft are now building or needing to build NUCLEAR REACTORS to generate that compute for all the massive data-centers they are building. And meanwhile OpenAi has concocted a check-kiting scheme with Nvidia and AMD for chips and Oracle and soft bank for compute.
I think Apple is the only adult in the room and just has to shut off all the goofy "Apple is behind in AI" echo chamber nonsense coming from tech and news social media and not rush it. There is no rush, There is nothing there yet. It is all open source, there is no moat for someone like Apple. Heck, Apple can even build their own AI chips without needing Nvidia or CUDA compatability if they wanted to. No one but the echo-chamber is clamoring for Apple to build its own AI chatbot. Let's let everyone else risk their necks rushing "eat rocks" AI's and Apple can sit back and be the control sample. Just having ChatGT or Claude as an app is perfectly fine with me.
OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft are now building or needing to build NUCLEAR REACTORS to generate that compute for all the massive data-centers they are building. And meanwhile OpenAi has concocted a check-kiting scheme with Nvidia and AMD for chips and Oracle and soft bank for compute.
I think Apple is the only adult in the room and just has to shut off all the goofy "Apple is behind in AI" echo chamber nonsense coming from tech and news social media and not rush it. There is no rush, There is nothing there yet. It is all open source, there is no moat for someone like Apple. Heck, Apple can even build their own AI chips without needing Nvidia or CUDA compatability if they wanted to. No one but the echo-chamber is clamoring for Apple to build its own AI chatbot. Let's let everyone else risk their necks rushing "eat rocks" AI's and Apple can sit back and be the control sample. Just having ChatGT or Claude as an app is perfectly fine with me.
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… I never said that Apple Music on the Mac is good! It’s a regression. But iTunes did get bloated.
No need to bring such an extremely accurate and completely true personal attack into the conversation! 😉
I have a not so negative opinion, contrary to the panicking people. It's MHO that it only reveals how much Apple is ahead of the competition. Besides, Apple is the only one applying a practical AI reality to daily operations of its systems, fully integrated with its own chips and software. Who else has it? The rest nothing more than flashy things or selling snake oil to easily impress people.
Unpopular opinion: Apple is ahead in AI. They are on the right path to integrating AI with user-friendly applications and delivering real user value. Best, not first. They have a deep AI research bench as shown by their significant body of published research combined with a design-led culture to actually make the tech useful. Unrivaled privacy stance essential to earn trust with sensitive health and personal data. Meta has no vision and has time and again recruited top technical talent to deliver nothing of substance. No one else has shipped anything like the personalized Siri assistant that was delayed, and Siri is falsely equated with Apple Intelligence as a whole. This is yet another version of "Apple can't do cloud"/"Apple can't do services"/"Apple can't compete with Android" narratives and a bunch of other narratives created by those envious of Apple's success and press desperate to report the end of Apple's winning streak. Gurman has conflicts of interest and relentlessly pushes rumors about Apple's alleged AI failures, while meanwhile Apple Intelligence is gathering steam. Just like Maps. Just like iCloud. In 5 years, the critics will be silent and Apple will remain a leader in tech with smartly integrated AI features leveraging the personal data, on-device computing power and leading spatial computing capabilities that only they have. Disagree all you want - I will be proven right.
I know I'm late to these discussions, but I think it's possible that Apple is being the rational player here. AI is going to be everywhere all the time. Trying to pay people a ton of money to get there a day sooner doesn't really seem worth the money. So let the employees go, it really doesn't matter in the long run.
They already told us their answer. They're more likely just too cheap to pay someone else to do it.
Apple has an LLM. Their problem is in figuring out how to make use of it. It's a system of systems that has to get built out - the LLM is only a small part of it.
Apple simply isn't paying enough to retain talent.
They sell their users and their data to advertisers.
Aside from this I think meta is throwing cash and poaching employees to try and disrupt and slow down apple as they know an ai that can actually do useful things will be shameful to them.
I guess I just don't know enough about the topic. Apple seems to be making pretty good use of Gemini and Chat-GPT within Apple Intelligence.
No thank you on any partnerships or purchases here.
OpenAI is a garbage company with zero moral or ethical standing whatsoever.
Apple should steer clear completely.
They destroyed their OS with bugs and glitches so I don’t know what’s best honestly
The question is, what restraints were they under? Was Cook counting beans with budget?
That’s part of why Jony Ive left; narrow, budgetary lanes, and a product design disinterest from Cook. I can’t imagine he was too interested in the software side either.
All it takes for a team of great people is one crappy manager..........
