How are Apple leading AI exactly? And no one is using Apple silicon for AI models, yes you COULD use the new M3 Ultra Mac Studio maxed out, but it is still slower then Nvidias solution. Microsoft aren’t about to ditch NVIDIA AI systems for Apple Studio’s, Apple use NVIDIA themselves for it’s AI platform.
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John Gruber Says 'Something is Rotten' at Apple
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How are Apple leading AI exactly? And no one is using Apple silicon for AI models, yes you COULD use the new M3 Ultra Mac Studio maxed out, but it is still slower then Nvidias solution. Microsoft aren’t about to ditch NVIDIA AI systems for Apple Studio’s, Apple use NVIDIA themselves for it’s AI platform.
“We could not be more excited about our newest load of rot, and can’t wait to show it to you!”
Wouldn't even call it rot. Just slop really.
In 2024 I moved everything to Apple after more than 10 years away. Super happy with the hardware, but goddamn the software is absolute slop maxxed. This isn't the Apple I remember.
It feels like Apple was so far ahead at the time because Windows was garbage and they still bank on that, except Windows isn't garbage now. Nor android. Not even bugs, but absolutely sheer incompetence. Siri is still *******. Can't even fine scrub a video in Photos, how the F do they not get that right?!? Need to use and BUY 10 apps to make macOS usable as a desktop.
If something doesn't change, I'm definitely going back. It's a shame because I like the ecosystem itself but Apple charging these exorbitant prices still for a declining software stack is criminal.
The software part of Apple seems to be in decline in general. So much is buggy, slow, and the UI/UX that was one one time something to be praised, now is beyond horrible. And tricking people is a new low.
This is an absolutely delusional take. I don't even have words.
Hey, at least you got an emoji playground app that doesn't work 95% of the time and looks like hot garbage
That's neither here nor there, I think. The blog post is actually worth a read, goes way beyond missing a deadline.
OMG.
Did you even WATCH the entire video? Seems like you did NOT
1 A quick summary of specifics of a very busy itinerary is useful. many don't even USE their calendars on a personal level to get their ***** done - only their work PC's and phones as it organizes Zoom meeting connection details (and the like) along with room bookings for automated connections.
^ since some take advantage of BYOD this is even more useful to those.
2. Agents The ability to request an complex action that involves data, more than 1 app and completes your request succinctly and efficiently and faster than you or anyone would or could do on their smartphones today brings us BACK to the whole purpose of having a smart-phone.
incidently enough many humans cannot even tell what a 2 part question is let alone a suggestion.
Even you just above completely exhibited my sentence just stated before this one. IF you disagree your quoted post herein shows otherwise as you ONLY focused the first 5 mins of the suggested video and have no comprehension of the advances that Apple had envisioned about Ai under Jobs' first tenure as a concept that even Apple Ai today is now 2 generations behind at - as only shown by Apple Knowledge Navigator and today's products and services.
I think this is probably what you get by insisting on a yearly cylcle, because you need the next "WOW" to sell your iPhones. Even if your next "WOW" is 6 months after the release of said phone and maybe not even widely adopted...
When I read rotten I was expecting the topic to be some of the gross violations of human rights in the production chain and not that Siri still is a mess. Kinda sais a lot about whoever this quoted person is.
How apple manages to bring these features to life will be telling. WWDC is now partly a showcase of what’s to come or just ideas, and the narrative that it is such should be more clearly communicated. Many companies are talking about new feature and plans to passify shareholders and tech enthusiasts like us all. As well as trying to stay relevant and ahead of the curve. This part is more recent in apples history. Let’s hope they can regroup and have much more balanced WWDC 25 to what is new is going to be released. Don’t do to much, just what you can do.
It's worse than that.
It's not just the deceit; it's the complete lack of innovation and being caught asleep at the wheel with the whole AI thing. Had it not been for OpenAI, they'd be happily churning out the same iPhone for another decade with a slightly better camera and the odd useless button here and there. All Tim Cook cares about is monetisation as long as he can live off the brand equity which, in my view, has lasted surprisingly long.
So no, I don't buy Gruber's sudden intervention. He should've been calling them out on the lack of innovation for a decade.
It's not just the deceit; it's the complete lack of innovation and being caught asleep at the wheel with the whole AI thing. Had it not been for OpenAI, they'd be happily churning out the same iPhone for another decade with a slightly better camera and the odd useless button here and there. All Tim Cook cares about is monetisation as long as he can live off the brand equity which, in my view, has lasted surprisingly long.
So no, I don't buy Gruber's sudden intervention. He should've been calling them out on the lack of innovation for a decade.
oh I am happy to hear your take on my comment. Go ahead. Who can offer LLM-capable hardware with 512GB RAM fully addressable for the price Apple is?
So you are saying it is better to spend 500k USD to buy NVidia hardware than to buy the M3 Ultra for 10k? It isn't as fast, but it can manage most of the work for the "average" prosumer.
Beta is beta, they always roll out stuff that is meant for the public to be judged on betas.
Absolutely! If you knew how AI works you’d know why. This is a good explanation:
Also in what capacity are pro-summers using AI?
the Vision Pro is technicall absolutely amazing.
Apple never promised a car.
CarPlay 2 is delayed, I suspect mostly because of the car manufacturers, not Apple.
this is a TB5 networked cluster - not a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with local 512 GB RAM.... comparing that is completely different.
Sure, don’t watch the video and learn how AI works, but please do not post about it when you have no knowledge of it either.
Yeah that is right.
The next question would be: why did he play along?
He must have realized that Apple Maps was not ready for rollout - so why did he agree to roll it out?
Yet if it was clear that this would only be used as a pretense to get rid of him, there must have been other things he could have done to prevent this? Or - if truly unavoidable - leave before the brouhaha erupts.
Did he not see it coming? Then maybe he was not as smart as people think.
Did he underestimate the issue and flak he would receive? Then maybe he has no people smarts.
Either way you look at it, something is not adding up.
Nvidia doesn‘t deliver LLMs, if that is what you‘re associating with AI. But have a deeper look into e.g. „physical AI“ and robotics. Take a dive into NVidia „Cosmos“ which is OSS by the way https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai/cosmos/
Have a look at the role of CUDA when developing AI and MLP.
Yes it is foremost hardware you need to train and run AI solutions, but by banning NVIDIA from its platforms, it also banned AI development. Only one reason why I switched a lot of my workload to Linux. By the way as a Mac user, you‘ll love the native Gnome experience on Linux.
And if we talk about the future and the Mac Studio with 512GB for $15K, do yourself a favor and look at NVidia Digits. An AI supercomputer with 128GB RAM for $3K, Apple has nothing that compares. All workflows in the future will be replaced by AI agents, AI in video and photo editing. One may say the Mac Studio is targeted at a different audience, but in terms of AI capabilities it is dust.
[Edit] And while the Big Mac Studio has more memory - it is missing the AI power such a machine would need to compete.
Btw. It is smaller compared to the Mac Mini - and stackable …
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/
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Dude. I work with LLM. I watched the video when it came out. It is a networked cluster over Thunderbolt which is a damn needle hole. Mac Studio M3 Ultra does not have that. Some people already deployed DeepSeek on it and it works 10x faster than in the video by default. So? What is the point you are making?
Show me a PC or ANY other hardware that you could use today to do this. Even Nvidia, show me - how much would it cost to deploy DeepSeek at Q4 at least?
OK, so my point is valid. AFTER NVidia, Apple is the ONLY AI competition. Yes, no?
Digits of course I know, looks promising - not launched, not seen, not anything. We will see.
I only upgraded to the 16 Pro Max because I was curious how Apple would handle this AI-thing. Now I know... Btw: I'm an Apple user since day one.