I really hope for Apple’s sake what they announce isn’t just their version of what Microsoft and Google are already doing.
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I'm not saying Apple cares about my privacy.
I'm saying that Apple has a model in which they are selling you privacy. They are already monetizing privacy by how they advertise and design their products. I'm simply saying that to further monetize it isn't a useful way for them, I don't believe. Since they are already beginning their products with monetization of privacy (i.e., buy our products because they protect your privacy), in a way they are making customers angry by then charging for additional privacy features as they create them. They should be already included as things evolve.
I am astounded by how gullible some people are. Apple is no better than others.
Apple’s Anti-Tracking Transparency only applies to the apps that use third-party data to track users. Since Apple’s tracking stays within its own ecosystem, the company’s native apps are not subject to the policy. An exception Apple made for itself drew backlash, with some comparing the “nefarious"-sounding prompt third-party developers have to show to a far less ominous “personalized ads” pop-up Apple has to show itself.
Did Apple’s privacy feature help to drive its own ad business?
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
I wish they'd call it the "Apple Butler" instead of Copilot or Siri or GPT something.
Because I'll never be rich enough to have a butler and I've always dreamt of having one 🥹 /s
Open Safari, good morning… You look terrible in that outfit, here are my recommendations. Also noted you were low on coffee, and almost everything in the refrigerator. I placed an order for you. Have a nice day.
ChatGPT: You look mighty spiffy keen in that outfit!
Copilot: You have shown me a picture of an upside down triangle surrounded by flowers.
Siri: Here's what I found on the web
Siri has been able to direct you to some Safari Web sites for fact finding, but it's really challenging to go to more specific word web search when issuing verbal queries except for very generalized topics. I hope they can do this akin to Siri understanding longer text, that would be a major step ahead for iPhone handsfree situations using AI.
But if it's tied to iCloud + accounts, they can keep it, I don't want a subscription against web searches that I can do better using other methods. Also don't want this used as a new means to marketing Apple subscriptions or 3rd party content they nudge to you.
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Hopefully something that I can opt out of.
Excited to see the potential, but hoping that they'll be able to be toggled.
AI you cannot disable is annoying AI by definition.
AI you cannot disable is annoying AI by definition.
You think it works. It frequently spews garbage that is utterly wrong.
I mean, Siri has never turned on the dishwasher after I said "Siri, play Neil Young". No, never, that doesn't happen on a daily basis, years after this technology was commoditized by the rest of the market, nope, never.
You asked that like it's your first time interacting/dealing with Apple.
You have a bean-counter in charge of Apple. If he can find a way to monotonize something, you can be sure he will
I use Safari as my default browser, but boy, has it become bloated. Profiles, Tab Groups, Favorites, Tab Group Favorites, iCloud Tabs, … I have no idea what syncs and what doesn’t. It’s so messy and unintuitive.
Yeah agree. A lot of Apple’s AI will be an iCloud+ thing or a brand new subscription that includes and replaces iCloud+, I’m sure.
Apple+ ?
This makes a lot of sense. These features can be quite expensive to implement, especially if that is happening server side instead of requiring device hardware, so I can see Apple bundling several of these services with iCloud and their other packages.
If anything I felt like they under promised and over delivered. They just kinda put it out into the world and it ended up being wildly successful. It's not this successful just because of marketing or some other hype. It's successful because it works really well most of the time, especially if you are adept at using it and crafting prompts that are more effective. IDK if OpenAI even has an advertising budget for chatGPT yet, but if they do, I'm the target demo and I haven't seen it. My work bought me a subscription right away and it has streamlined a lot of my work. I use it to do everything from researching options for projects I'm spec'ing out for work to essentially pair-programming with it.
Nowadays many search engines only provide SEO optimized garbage. It's so difficult to find obscure results, especially if you aren't 100% sure how to word what you're trying to look up. This is where chatGPT really shines. It cuts through the crap and almost always gets me a result I'm looking for, and I can have it cite sources as well just to make sure this really is a best practice or what have you. For instance, we have an external dev team that quoted me about 30 hours of work to develop this specific functionality we needed for a website. I'm less adept at programming than them, as nowadays more of my job revolves around managing everything. But with just chatGPT and myself we were able to develop the same functionality in just a few hours, sent it over to them for review, and everything came back good.