@louis now I no longer have to imagine what it would be like if the "Telescreens" from the book "1984" had pictures of cute puppies on them instead of pictures of "Big Brother's" face. I mean, would you smash the screen with a sledge hammer if it showed Snoopy on it? I didn't think so. The future is now!
#WWDC starts in a little less than an hour. There are many that are expecting #Apple to come out strong with #AI products. Some have even stipulated that Apple will lead the market. My question is, what would that look like? Having a terrible AI on a lot of devices isn't really leading the market. Keeping AI on device is great for privacy reasons, but that AI is never going to compete functionally with the giant datacenter model. Only public sources is good, but everybody has that. Sooooo.... ?
@mike I don't think they'll have "real" market leadership on that front at all, at least not until October if they ever introduce ultra-dedicated AI chips on their devices that can't compare to their current's
@asier Even with some hypothetical ultra-amazing AI chip, that's only going to be a distinction between on device and cloud based. Apple makes some amazing hardware, but they're not going to invent anything that fits in a phone that's going to compete with a datacenter. Keeping AI on device isn't leading the market, it's just putting the AI in a particular place.
@brennansv a long time ago, I lived in Plumas County in the Sierra Nevada, and we had Jeffrey pines that had scads of pine nuts. But the chickareees would sit on the branches overhead and scale the cones to take the nuts, and I swear they would throw the chewed up pine cones at our heads. I know they weren't, but it seemed like I got hit too often for it to be pure coincidence.
My last-minute WWDC wish: Apple fixes the bug that randomly opens porn when I open Safari (it switches to a random tab in a random profile, which is often porn)
#Apple place les utilisateurs et les développeurs du monde entier sous sa coupe et les prive de leur liberté. Non seulement cela limite les possibilités financières des développeurs, mais ils ne peuvent pas distribuer de logiciel libre par l'intermédiaire d'Apple. Il est temps de s'en prendre à ce monopole et de libérer utilisateurs et développeurs. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/pumpkins-markets-and-one-bad-apple
Au début de l'année, Apple a été obligée de fournir aux développeurs un moyen de mettre en lien des méthodes alternatives de paiement pour les achats intégrés aux applications (in-app purchases), à la suite des poursuites entamées par Epic Games en 2020 au titre de la législation anti-trust. #Apple a annulé les effets de cette innovation en exigeant une commission allant jusqu'à vingt-sept pour cent en cas de paiement utilisant une méthode alternative à la leur. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24158911/apple-v-epic-evidentiary-hearing-app-store-payments
I have been scrupulously avoiding the big #WWDC rumor-dump (the one that seems like it MUST have come from someone who actually saw the keynote in advance?!?)
Love being surprised and (sometimes) delighted by an Apple keynote.
