Oh, I don’t know that. Well then this means a lot about state of innovation in Apple.
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Apple will allow the user to choose a model, but expect Apple to offer their own model too, probably tiered.
You can use any of the major AI chatbots to create AppleScripts and then just copy/paste into AppleScript to test. I would rather use an Apple Intelligence chatbot to create AppleScripts and also control all other aspects of my Mac/iPad/iPhone but sadly this option does not exist yet. But at least you can “vibe code” AppleScripts. Because they’re local, there’s no security risk. I have two such AppleScripts in production that have saved me a lot of time.
These kinds of Apple acquisitions are nothing new.
3D Maps ← C3 Technologies
A4 GPU ← Intrinsity
Animoji ← Faceshift
Apple Silicon ← P.A. Semi
AR/VR ← Vrvana
Beats
CoverFlow ← Steel Skies
Depth sensing, low-light ← LinX
Face ID ← PrimeSense
Face tracking ← SensoMotoric
Health sensors ← Tueo Health
iPod ← Tony Fadell: prototype, expertise
iTunes ← SoundJam MP
Mac OS X ← NeXT
MagSafe ← PowerbyProxi
Maps routing ← HopStop
Maps search ← Locationary
Multi-touch ← FingerWorks
NAND flash ← Anobit
Shazam
Shortcuts ← Workflow
Siri
Sleep tracking ← Beddit
Touch ID ← AuthenTec
Voice synthesis ← VocalIQ
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“Apple’s on the wrong track with AI.”
meanwhile AI companies bend over backwards to ensure their products are available on Apple devices.
meanwhile AI companies bend over backwards to ensure their products are available on Apple devices.
no doubt its the same as all large companies where your ideas are stifled, others think they know better, and there is nowhere to grow.
What I find most amusing is that there is little recognition that people may actually enjoy their job creating apps, building etc rather than managing, but if they do, no pay rise or promotion for you. They have to leave and set up a business, and I can guarantee this is what happened here.
At the end of the day Apple is an old corporate business now. If you love a entrepreneurial startup culture, things are not going to gel. You might stay a while for the money and perhaps your fellow startup team members, but eventually you're going to have one to many conversations with that manager who never gets you and doesn't see any reason to try.
I have access to both on the paid tier and I can never quite put a finger on why I prefer GPT. I *think* it boils down to personality. With Gemini I feel like it’s an LLM bolted on top of search results that basically forms a new UI, whereas GPT has a bit of chat, and feels like you’re conversing, rather than it trying to end the conversation with an answer.
ChatGPT is definitely winning on the integration front at the moment too, which is what will define the winner of this ridiculous arms race, IMO.
My point is more that Shortcuts doesn't really bring anything new that wasn't possible already with Automator, at least on the desktop. And it's a pain to debug.
Is Shortcuts not a friendlier, more approachable UX with a shortcut library in the cloud designed for the modern era to attract more users, in comparison to Automator's stagnated design and Mac-only setup. There are so many more iPhone users than Mac users surely it can't be a mistake to bring the more popular app to the Mac for feature and design parity going forward? Now as Apple adds features over time they can be pushed to all of their platforms in unison. As time progresses it will make more sense.
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Oh, thanks for the list most of them I don’t know about. But I guess I can add one more point
CoverFlow ←
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CoverFlow ← Steel Skies
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CoverFlow wasn't an acquisition though. It was developed internally and then Apple was sued. Apple eventually got the legal issues settled but ultimately decided to go with Gallery View and drop CoverFlow.
Interesting, after a little research I found out that Cover Flow was acquired from Steel Skies in 2006 AppleInsider
And than in 2010 got battle in court from patent troll for $625 mil AppleInsider
So, acquired
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touchéInteresting, after a little research I found out that Cover Flow was acquired from Steel Skies in 2006 AppleInsider
And than in 2010 got battle in court from patent troll for $625 mil AppleInsider
So, acquired
Regarding AI, Apple should’ve been more focused on this area than any other except possibly a better Siri
That tells me working at Apple sucks. Which would explain why they’re losing all sorts of talent and why their software is falling so behind
Maybe it has something to do with their overly strict return to office policies. There’s really no justification for it and it vastly reduces people’s quality of life. I don’t blame them for leaving
Shortcuts really isn’ta replacement for them. More like an augmentation. It can do different things and can even run AppleScripts and shell scripts (on Mac).
It’s too bad that it seems under developed. There are so many things I’ve tried to do with it that are just impossible but shouldn’t be
Hope they got their bonus before Meta laid them off! Having recently laid off 600 AI employees, I now wonder if their goal wasn’t screwing over the companies they were working for, but screwing over those human beings? Talented folks that become less hire-able as no one (but Meta) wants to pay that salary then see them head out the door?
Well that's the thing, Automator could do that as well (run AppleScript and shell scripts). And that was 20 years ago.
So why reinvent the wheel instead of improving what was already there? It's a similar story with widgets. We had widgets before - funnily enough, also introduced in 2005 with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, like Automator.
That's what bothers me a bit. Lots of stuff that gets sold as innovation that we actually had before, and that in many ways was better than the modern replacement.