For this comment, I want to be absolutely clear that I do not give a shit about AI, and that it in no way factored into my decision to buy this iPhone 16 Pro Max.
With that disclaimer out of the way:
I very much look forward to a class action lawsuit. Apple advertised specific features as coming ‘very soon’ and gave short timeframes when asked directly. And they basically did not deliver on those advertising promises. Basically, I think there’s a good case to be made here that Apple knowingly engaged in false advertising in order to sell a phone that otherwise would not have sold as well. Those promised AI features WERE a deciding factor for a lot of people to upgrade to an iPhone 16.
So, I’ll be looking forward to some form of compensation. It’s the principle of it.
Siri still struggles with toggling my lights with voice commands, after nearly 8 years of tearful screaming at my HomePod.
I want to see 1 Infinite Loop transformed into a giant toilet.
Me: Siri turn lights on
Siri: Now playing Bon Jovi’s “Wanted dead or alive”
Me: Siri shut the fuck up, you have one job, do that job
Even the home app struggles to turn on my lights and I don’t know if it’s Apple or the hue bridge loses connection.
Based shareholders
Apple used rigged demos and made false claims about their own technology so outstanding that their own project managers were taken aback by how far behind the features actually were vs. what was pushed. There’s already informal documentaries on the massive internal disconnects within Apple that have lead to poor product testing and stagnation.
There is some possibility that Tim Cook will resign or be fired.
This can be a very good thing or a very bad thing.
It can be a very good thing if they try to actually become a normal company and not hype-serf.
So, it’s not going to be good then.
It would make no difference at all.
So, your MO is fooling customers since Jobs. You learn that fooling customers doesn’t ever get punished. Then your shareholders become fooled well enough over time. Then your management is so involved in fooling customers and shareholders that they don’t know anything else. Then there’s bound to happen a moment.
Apple professional management have run the company down with their many foolish decisions. Feels similar to how Microsoft became worse annd worse after XP.
I’m pretty sure you can trace the management downturn of American companies back to a change in MBA curriculum.
You can see when they started getting hired after the shift. Where they were taught that as long as your department is doing well and has positive numbers, LITERALLY nothing else matters. The company could be crashing and burning around you, you might even be causing it, but as long as those numbers are going up, you’ll quickly get hired at another company. Because every single iota of their education is about pleasing investors who only care about money now, and not potential money in a few years.
They go on about long-term investment and then you find out that what they’re actually talking about is things that will start returning a profit in 6 months. Half a year is long-term to them.
If you have a long-term view and want to make quite a lot of money you probably couldn’t do better than shorting Apple stock. They never innovate anymore (every iPhone is literally the same as the previous years), and they spend huge amounts of money on failed projects (Vision Pro), meanwhile they continue not to fix ongoing serious issues (Safari).
After W2K I didn’t like XP all that much, it felt slower and was too “Chinese-looking” (how it could be said in my language in those years). Now I’m nostalgic over chromecore aesthetic and that look, silver Game Boy, silver PS2, silver SW Phantom Menace interiors. Or matte black as an alternative, too looking very cool. Or at least that “normal” matte white. But in UIs - XP felt a bit too much, tiring for my eyes. Still, XP with default blue theme and jump-to-lightspeed wallpaper is what home and nostalgie are for me.
Never heard that phrase before. What language might that be if you don’t mind me asking?
Well, in Russia in early 00s (my childhood) they’d say that about things looking like Chinese toys of cheap plastic. As in “Chinese means cheap, but low-quality and probably a toy”. Such things were indeed mostly produced in China, so. It’s rather that back then you’d sometimes have better things, now everything is like this.
In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.
Scotch tape is a brand name.
And it was named that because it was cheap tape.
And the phonetic transcription of that is how we still call that in Russian.
Well, with “Chinese” in Russian it didn’t stick. I’m somewhat sad, I think certain political conditions also make the Russian language poorer and weaker with time. In 00s I, despite being autistic, could somewhat “feel the wave” of the people around me. Now it just … feels as if someone tracks and tries to slowly kill all the good things, as if just being in control is not enough for those people.
Ah. Thanks, that’s insightful :)
Instead of focusing on battery life, they focused on some dogshit hype product that no one uses and no body asked for.
Are you asleep? EVERYONE ASKED FOR AI IN ALL THE THINGS!
/s
THE SHARES! THEY NEED TO BE HELD! ONLY THE HOLDERS OF THE SHARES KNOW WHAT IS BEST!
/s
Yep I’m asleep without my Apple watch because the battery barely holds out a day and a half.
Why doesn’t Apple become a PBC?
A Pretty Big Company? I think they are beyond that classification.
I hope this is the beginning of the end for AI.
What?! Haven’t your heard?
- FSD is happening next year, for sure,
- we’re still 18 months away from developers being replaced,
- it’s “deep” reasoning, basically nearly ASI!
/s (obviously)
Peak ludites gathering here lmao
I’d be willing to literally bet everything I own that AI will not be gone anytime soon. It’s absurd to even think that we would ever go back to pre-llm world unless a world ending event happens.
LLMs will always be a novelty tech. They will continue to exist, but not likely worth all the money it costs to run them.
It’s blockchain all over again
Apple will be pissed at you now shareholders! Why would you do such a thing? sue them? really ? Apple is a good company, would never do that! /S
I. Am. GeNiuS
Was Apple Intelligence a fiasco?
Have you seen the typical apple zealot?
Have you seen the typical Linux zealot lol
Have you seen a Windows zealot?
Yeah me neither
They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.
*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*
I have, quite a few in fact. Recently I got into a discussion with someone who was complaining about how bad Linux was because installing it from scratch took an extra ~20 minutes of configuration to set up drivers, meanwhile his Windows systems “just work”. What he didn’t mention, though, was that his Windows systems that “just worked” were pre-build machines that came pre-installed with Windows, in other words the manufacturer already did the hard part of getting all of the drivers installed ahead of time and baked into the image. Turns out he had never actually installed Windows on a bare-metal system before and had to deal with the absolute fucking nightmare Windows driver management is, so he had no basis for comparison, of course he refused to recognize that as a possibility though.
That doesn’t sound like zealot as much as someone who doesn’t want to think about it though
In his mind, Windows works, Linux doesn’t, and nothing and no-one can convince him otherwise. That sounds like a zealot to me, but maybe you had something else in mind.
And claiming that it works is zealotry? Sounds like he does like Linux, that doesn’t make him a Windows zealot. Apathetic is kinda Windows target demographic and the antithesis of zealotry
As a FreeBSD zealot, I really don’t see anything far from norm with Linux zealots. They are a bit conflict-seeking and ignorant, but that’s ok.
An apple has more intelligence.
All the shareholders of AI progressing companies should do this.
I think Apple is going to have to release Safari for Windows and Linux to use new users as guinea pigs.
I did use Safari for Windows back in the day. It was a product they indeed shipped.
Was Safari for Windows a good, bad, or average product?
Generally, Safari was kind of middling in function and design until around 2018, when it got more streamlined or something; at least, its apparent performance improved over the other browsers on macOS. It was novel on Windows but pretty limited and just, meh.
Edit: I forgot, the clean, minimalist, ad free reader view on the windows version was very nice to have. Long time ago!
It was fun! It worked well when compared with IE back in the day which isn’t saying much, but it was a sensible bedfellow with iTunes and all the Apple mobile support software that was common to run alongside for your iPod. I enjoyed using it as my main browser because it was aesthetically pleasing.
Normal. I used Opera. QuickTime player for Windows was nice. Used it under W2K for most of media things in the interwebs.
