SchwarzTech — Snippet: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
John Gruber: The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to...| SchwarzTech
(Starting off with John Gruber's Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino – which is both right and aptly put – but followed by a crazy quilt of reactions.)| Take
John Gruber: The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on AI. It’s also not that they had to...| SchwarzTech
Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.| atp.fm
Re-reading some of the quotes curated by Michael Tsai in the already-discussed Rotten commentary round-up, I noticed this bit by Om Malik, which had escaped my attention for some reason: I have my own explanation, something my readers are familiar with, and it is the most obvious one. Just as Google is trapped in the 10-blue-link prison, which prevents it from doing something radical, Apple has its own golden handcuffs. It’s a company weighed down by its market capitalization and what stock...| Riccardo Mori
As usual, Michael Tsai assembles a remarkable roundup of opinions and reactions after John Gruber’s recent piece Something is rotten in the State of Cupertino, where he finally criticises Apple for essentially over-over-promising and under-under-underdelivering on Apple Intelligence, especially regarding the announced improvements to Siri. What I find involuntarily funny in this specific wave of criticism is that for some of these people this has been the straw that broke the camel’s back...| Riccardo Mori
Rotten| Michael Tsai
John Gruber is not mincing his words. What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a compa…| On my Om
Whither Swift Assist?| Michael Tsai
This announcement is disappointing, but unsurprising. If it’s Apple’s general policy not to ship a product before it’s ready, that applies tenfold for a product involving LLM access to deeply private on-device information.| Daring Fireball
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and advertise these features in a TV commercial, and promote them as a selling point of the iPhone 16 lineup?| Daring Fireball
