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Comment Re: Joe Biden's favourite font (Score 1) 201

Because Biden's not president anymore, the post is nothing but a dig and this is an article about something done by Trump's administration. The post is the most obvious flamebait imaginable, and it seems weird that someone would even pretend that there's some fairness issue marking it as such.

Comment Re: Meh (Score 1) 68

It's not AI by itself⦠The sign that something is broken at Apple is that they heavily pursued two prominent misfires (the Apple Car and Vision Pro), while completely missing AI. Now they are years behind on the next big platform, and it's not a problem that can be easily solved with money because they didn't build the infrastructure or capture the talent.

Comment 2 years behind..? (Score 0) 7

It's great that they're letting their AI people publish papers (although the last one I saw literally came from interns), but Apple is clearly a couple years behind the state of the art here, and "weirdly interesting" is not how you catch up. Xcode 26 (which is unreleased) is functionally not up to what other companies had out last fall, and by the time it's out in Sept, the situation will be even worse. At this point Apple should get over their "not invented here" syndrome and just license Claude.

Comment Re: W's in Chat. Let's Gooooooooo!!11 (Score 1) 42

I think you can flip the argument too.. If Apple is allowed to lock people out of 3rd party transactions on a device a consumer bought, in the future with self-driving cars, could car manufacturers demand you only fill up at approved gas stations? Say you can't take your car to certain destinations? Demand a cut of any money you spend at fast food drive thru windows?

Comment Re: Consumers (Score 1) 19

If you look at macOS (where the App Store is not required), there are more kinds of apps, more app purchasing models (for ex. upgrades) and consumers overwhelming buy apps outside of the App Store.

It's also pretty easy to see how alternative App Stores become super popular.. For ex. Do you think current Steam users would like to be able to cross-buy games for PC, Mac and iOS? That seems like a no brainer and huge win for consumers by itself.

Comment What about 2025? 2026? (Score 4, Insightful) 45

It's not a good sign that they have to leak potential products for 2027 to Bloomberg to keep the Apple faithful on the hook through 2 dull years. The robot sounds a lot like their car project (ie. why are they making this?) and the smart glasses may have a shot, but are by no means a slam dunk. Under Cook they've had more cancelled or failed new product lines than successes now.

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