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Comment Re:Lack of experience: (Score 1) 65

I assume you never worked in a bigger company not managed by engineers? Tech debt reduction always takes lower priority than next quarter’s sales targets/functional features, you often need to wait for a big “event” to get the green light for tech renovation. Sure, you can hide some work behind functional changes, but this mainly helps with local/component-level tech debt, not with bigger issues.

Comment Re:Meaning there is no true free market happening. (Score 1) 119

Ignoring for a moment that yet another abstraction layer“ is most likely not what the world needs: It‘s rather hard to build an abstraction layer based on your knowledge of one cloud provider only. And building one which will still work with the new kid on the block popping up in 5 years is obviously impossible.

Comment Re:Generative AI LLM (Score 1) 42

archive.is is your friend in such cases.

But to quote directly from the article:

Apple also is looking beyond chatbots. It aims to use large language models — a key technology behind generative AI — to help power a pair of robotic devices that it is secretly developing, the people said.

That includes a table-top robotic arm with a large, iPad-like display. The company also has been working on a mobile robot that can follow users around and handle chores on their behalf. And it’s looking to equip its AirPods with cameras and AI features.

Not a lot details, could also just be technical experiments.

Comment Re: What people keep forgetting about voting. (Score 1) 65

We already have vote-by-postal mail in Switzerland for quite some years. While there is always the risk that some voters are forced to vote by a gunman sitting at their home, this kind of attack is considered hard to scale.And having a few forced votes probably would be within the margin of error of the whole process anyway.

Comment Re: Only Federal involvement will sway Apple (Score 1) 142

The problem here is that RCS does not provide E2EE out of the box, it was added by Google. So if Google urges Apple to adopt RCS they actually want Apple to adopt RCS *and* the encryption Google defined. Which makes you wonder why Apple (or any other competitor) should do that, and which also is not just the adaption of RCS as a successor of SMS.

E2E encrypted chat across platforms is a solved problem without Apple adopting RCS+Google Encryption, just use Signal :-)

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