Apple and Anthropic seem like such a good fit. If not an acquisition, a very high profile investment and public partnership like MS has with OpenAI. Besides being really good at code, and maybe not the top choice for some other use cases, for whatever reason Claude feels like the most pleasant LLM to use. IMO at least.If they can acquire someone like anthropic that would be the best bet, as it’s tech is good but they just haven’t got the public profile and awareness (and presumably the usage figures) outside of the coding community.
We all know Siri needs to improve but there is lots of AI already happening.Tim.. Don´t talk. Deliver. Show your action if you think you are a real man. Siri from WWDC 2024 is already overdue.
The product is your information. You don't need to pay for AI for it to be profitable. How do you think companies like Meta have become so successful and don't charge a monthly fee.The bubble pops when these AI startups begin running out of investor funding and realise that they don’t have a product consumers are willing to pay for.
The mass market simply doesn’t care about AI, much less AI on their phones. I feel there is this unrealistic optimism in tech circles that isn’t representative of how AI is perceived by the general public.
There is too much focus on the raw power found in LLMs like ChatGPT, and not enough on to turn this into a product that people are willing to pay money for. It’s a trend similar to when I was arguing that people fixated too much on raw specs in a smartphone, and not enough on the end user experience.
The product is your information. You don't need to pay for AI for it to be profitable. How do you think companies like Meta have become so successful and don't charge a monthly fee.
You underestimate how much Gen-Z uses AI.
The target market of smartphones is shifting farther and farther away from boomers, and companies are smart to strategize that way since many in that generation refuse to learn anything new. Just look at ios 26... It's not designed to cater to the older population with its translucent menus and designs.
I'd say the shift is years past due.
Personally, I'm extremely satisfied with Liquid Glass. At first, I wasn’t really feeling it either, but as I got used to it day by day, the old interface started looking outdated to me... and the same thing happened back when iOS 7 came out — it was initially awful, but eventually became a major inspiration for everyone.Tim Cook is an idiot, point blank.
Only an idiot gets outdone by a competitor by over a trillion dollars in market cap when they have the products Tim had put right in their lap. Apple should be where Microsoft is right now.
Only an idiot approves this ugly Liquid Glass software theme.
Take responsibility to your superiors and admit you’re a screw up. We’ll all forgive you and move on with less hate towards you, Tim. Everyone knows you’re a terrible leader and shouldn’t be in charge of a tech company.
Apparently people use LLMs a lot to make buying decisions or to plan trips. Which makes some sense, because it takes a lot of time to do proper research when you're not a domain expert for the thing you're buying. It shouldn't be difficult to manipulate chatbot responses to include paid recommendations. The ethics of doing this are of course dubious, but something tells me most companies won't have a problem with this.Meta serves ads. How exactly are LLMs supposed to serve ads to me?
That’s why I said “pretty much”.Except they weren't. Siri was out long before Apple bought it and absorbed it into iOS...
I think the main issue right now is security.If Apple can figure out the best use case for AI on a mobile or wearable, they will be the first to do so. I am immensely impressed with LLMs capabilities as a technology and its coding/writing/analytical capability but there is little to be impressed about AI when one focuses on the user holding a phone or wearing a watch or glasses. The current stage of AI is still an early one, still submerged into addressing fundamental problems related to overcoming hardware limitations. Apple's best bet should be in creating best implementation of AI use. Apple's misses related to Siri and Apple intelligence are the reflection of the massive task that all players need to address. We know what Meta thinks now - glasses, Google and MS will do their thing as before. OpenAI and Johnny are trying to create a new device to integrate AI in our lives but nobody has a full answer at the moment.
This is the worst possible combination for prompt injection attacks! Any time an LLM-based system has access to private data, tools it can call, and exposure to potentially malicious instructions (like emails and text messages from untrusted strangers) there's a significant risk that an attacker might subvert those tools and use them to damage or exfiltrating a user's data.