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Apple CEO John Ternus pressured Apple senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi to “accelerate the company’s road map and move quickly beyond merely making necessary improvements to Siri,” reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.
Citing anonymous sources, Gurman writes that Ternus is “frustrated by what he sees as a reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors,” and pushed Federighi for changes in a meeting behind closed doors. Federighi, Gurman points out, has been considered an AI skeptic with concerns “about the technology’s privacy, security, societal and employment implications.”
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The latest iOS update was just slop. If you’re in Europe there are no tangible improvements since the slop isn’t allowed here.
Apple is following in Proton’s footsteps.
So, over the last couple or years, Samsung has been updating the OS of my Galaxy Smartphone repeatedly. With each iteration more and more AI features have appeared as new buttons with ambiguous icons.
Using AI features on my phone requires opening a Samsung account so it cat track my token use. This requires providing personal information, and making up a password I will remember since the Samsung account app isn’t compatible with password managers (except Samsung’s proprietary manager, which I do not use). I also anticipate Samsung will want a credit card number to quietly charge me as I use compute.
I haven’t made a Samsung account.
And so all these buttons with weird icons are now productivity potholes, since tapping any of them accidentally switches me to the create a Samsung account page, interrupting my workflow.
Like tyranny, enshitification is more about incompetence than malevolence.
Can’t you use a different launcher? Samsung launcher has always been shit. I had a misfortune of using Samsung phone 10 years ago or so and even then it was excellent hardware mated to absolute trash software that slowed everything down.
Not OP, but I still haven’t found anything worthy of replacing (the now radioactive) Nova Launcher
I had no idea this was even happening. Am i out of the loop?
“John Ternus will be great for Apple because he’s an engineer”
A society that refuses to mix ethics with STEM: hold my beer…
Seriously, being an engineer or working on or in something doesn’t automatically make you the best leadership choice automatically. Ethics are kind of an important thing America continues to gloss over at an alarming rate.
Funny. In my 1986 college freshman year I was required to take an ethics for engineers course. They told us working for the military industrial complex was bad.
Curiously, the MIC was hiring and was where the well-paying jobs were at the time. Also, the field was impacted thanks to decades of cold war STEM push.
And there you get the contrived desperation, that drove studying engineers students into Lockheed, Northrop and McDonnell Douglas like Russian girls into Epstein’s sex spa for billionaires.
It turns out you can’t eat ethics. Although I still find myself judging ICE recruits.
Unfortunately ethics is kinda one of those major pillars that separates us from the other animals in the kingdom.
whoever would be in that position would do the same insane crap
‘I want more AI in my life’ said noone
“The customer is always right” has become “The customer will like it” with screen controls in cars, IOT jammed into everything, subscriptions, AI forced down our throats…
In many cases they have blown past “the customer will like it” all the way to “our data suggests that 90% of customers will not leave and profits will slightly increase as a result.”
I mean, at this point enshittification is a widespread business plan.
Oh yeah, time for some iSlop
How about Apple makes FaceTime calls be halogram call like in Star Wars? Oh wait, nobody is asking for that. Just like nobody is asking for AI but here we are.
No shit. You say “AI” and investors scramble to throw money at you.
You say “AI will destroy the world” and they throw even more at you.
Everybody wants to own a piece of the apocalypse.
Keep in mind Apple has a poorly documented and mostly unknown daemon called knowledgeconstructiond that cannot be turned off and solely exists to profile you based on accessing every Apple apps data - ical, messages, mail, photos etc, which is astoundingly personal info especially considering a lot of Apple users dump everything into stock apps, as the “strength” of Apple has typically been consistency of the platform
https://8rank.ai/game/apple-intelligence-personal-knowledge-graph
The person who wrote that article vibecoded an app that allows you to visualize the data captured: https://github.com/8rank/iKnow
It is basically all the gross shit that ad networks do. What does Apple do with this data, that has been aggregated since macos 13? Officially it’s probably to “enhance the user experience” but at a minimum it probably changes how Apple delivers ads to you. do they sell it? Who knows
Being slow on LLMs is the one good decision apple is making.
Much like needing to listen to the song that is stuck in your head, I just need to write this, sorry. AiPhone
There’s a bigger issue here at play. The way members inside 3GPP are planning for how 6G technology works (if passes, if not it goes to 7G planning) is that your phones AI model is fine tuned based on all your behaviors and set of predictions and your phones AI will communicate to an agent either close to the phones modem and/or speak to another agent at the nearest 6G tower or NTN with a 6G Core.
If people were to see what standards organizations make up, your mind would be blown. There’s a lot of good intentions, but just enough people to use cool tech for bad. $$$
Didn’t believe it until ai looked it up.
Wholly fuck we really want the black wall from Cyberpunk don’t we?
