As much as I despise a lot of what this current administration is doing, we still have to acknowledge when they do something right. With the facts currently at hand this seems like they are doing the right thing here and I encourage them to do more right things!

The fact is they blocked several companies, but didn't lower the number of visas being issued. So what they are doing is redistributing who gets visas (which smacks of favoritism and corruption), without actually lowering the number of jobs taken by non-US citizens. This is a favor to the companies that will be granted the newly available visas. It will be revealing to see who gets them.

How do you figure that?

Because Apple does not apply these rules to their own apps. The permissions are designed to scare users into thinking something is unsafe, while the Apple-version will do the same things, but run with no restrictions or warnings.

This has been their playbook for years. Whether it's blocking background audio from websites like YouTube so users couldn't effectively use YT Music without Apple grabbing 30% from an app, then one year launching Apple Music.. To preventing third-party Siri competitors, because uses didn't like Siri and Apple needed time to build something new. This how they hold back third party products, then a year or two later they announce a competing product that "just works", hiding the fact that they were the reason other products didn't work.

These agent apps are particularly dangerous to Apple because they have the potential to replace the UI of your computer. Eventually they could just drive your computer for you, making Apple's UI secondary. So Apple will increasingly restrict these apps to prevent them from getting a foothold, and if they ever start too, I'd expect Apple to just straight up ban them like they did Xbox Cloud Streaming.

There is an asymmetrical relationship between companies and users, in terms of the resources they can throw at the problem and the consequences of their actions. Reddit, or Google or Apple can destroy years of your content for no good reason and not even provide a person you can talk to, meanwhile they require contact information from you and happily use it to send marketing messages you don't want.

Fixing the asymmetry is a great use of government regulation! As an American, I think it's super weird that you think in a country "by the people and for the people", Reddit should be able to write the rules and tell the people where to head in.

Or maybe they're historically literate enough to know that during one of America's most prosperous periods (the 1950s) the tax rate on people earning over $200,000 ($2 million today) was 91%. Because of course the best way to get wealthy people to *actually* invest in the economy (and not just play paper financial investment games) is to threaten to take their money away.

The military is right.

The military is supposed to protect citizens, not spy on them. Even if you think the spying is fine, that's not the military's job. The fact that this is a sticking point at all is a huge red flag and immediately tells you they should not have unfettered access to Claude. The bank should ask you for your pin code, but if the janitor at the bank asks, you know something is wrong.

Apple calculated that Patreon wouldn't do this before they started making threats. What's interesting is why Apple's doing this now.. clearly they don't expect significant growth this year, so they're looking for people they can squeeze to juice the fall numbers. That says a lot about what their projections are for the fall iPhone lineup and the rumored foldable phone. They probably still feel the sting of projecting the Vision Pro would be a hit and then it failing in the market.

The summary makes this sound shady, but honestly this sounds like some deal to license Unreal for some bullshit virtual navigation ML model training for use in robots, plus Epic buying Google Cloud services for the backend services of Fortnite. These companies are too big not to work together and it would do them more harm not too. Like when Apple revoked Epic's developer account and then Apple had to go out and tell 3rd parties to use Unity to make fluid 120 fps games for the Vision Pro. Oops.

45,000 sounds high. Let's not be sloppy.. Based on everything we know and that's been reported-- that Apple cancelled a true AVP successor and is moving ahead with glasses over the AVP, that they sold 300,000 units at launch (at best), that the division the AVP reports under (Wearables) had a *decline* in revenue after it launched, etc. etc. it's pretty clear it's a dead end product.

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.

It's like the guy claiming to be Napoleon and you agreeing with him (a bad, bad idea)

Isn't that literally what maga is doing with Trump right now?

Apple's working hard with stories like this to reverse the perception that they're behind in the AI race.. so now every ML project they have is an AI project..? And yet my iPhone still somehow screws up summarizing 3 line txt messages into 2 lines?

The drugs that give people increased heart rate, mood changes, anxiety, trouble sleeping, dry mouth, stomach pain, nausea, loss of appetite, bladder pain, and hallucinations may also offer some slight benefits for depressed people.

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.

The point where they are stuck is when the industry standardizes on one or two AI platforms and they don't belong to Apple. At that point Apple is no longer a rent-seeking gatekeeper, and they become just another tenant.

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.