Curiouserandcurious

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d consider this a bigger deal than AI seems to make it. Push notifications often include the first line or so of a message or interaction. This seems to be an ability to single tap into all push notifications and if so would include a tremendous range of information from financial payments to two factor authentication to email messages to text messages and just about everything that crosses your phone in a brief summary format. Worse yet it’s only partial context and content, so, if this were guiding any sort of action, there would be a lot of assumptions made.  This is a far more reaching view with far more simplicity than just about anything else I can imagine. Most other surveillance mechanisms, you would be tapping into single systems, and it would be much more difficult to get this comprehensive of a view from a single pipe. I’m impressed this could be suppressed for what I assume is a long period of time. 

I would love some close-up pictures of the stitching and side seams on the wallet. I ditched the leather wallet because the seams did not hold up over time and the seam sealant or edge treatment was flaking off a few weeks in. Straight up stitching could be much sturdier on fine woven. 

I suspect Microsoft is going to win this race to deliver simply packaged productivity AI - meaning document and information ecosystem interactive AI - to the end user first.

Google seems to be making a hash of it with their typical mangled app marketplace chaos. OpenAI by themselves are doing about the same thing with their plugin approach. 

I suspect this is just a platform fork for Apple. They have the scale and the revenues to do it. So why not just follow the Microsoft compliance tradition and essentially break your product for EMEA. Don’t break it so bad that you lose all your customers who are well locked in, but break it badly enough that there’s a very partial App Store, that there is no payment stack, that there is a messaging variant with limited features. For this season anyway, reduce functionality enough to balance still serving users, but create a distinctly different experience that is limited. Maybe everything comes later to Europe as well.  While you’re doing this, your development team gets to explore potential accommodations, and think about future architecture should the rest of the world follow along. Maybe you can lose 10 to 20% of market, but that doesn’t kill your market.  Then wait and see what North America does. I’m just not sure that Tim Cook is agile enough to execute a strategy like that, otherwise I would assume that is what is coming. 

My usb-c port is usually filled with pocket lint and bubblegum as a security precaution. Isn’t everybody’s? 

libertyandfree said:

 Once again Apple teases with a low price for a crippled SSD of 256GB.  Apple is such a fraud when it comes to their environmentally preaching since they install small SSD that makes their device obsolete too soon and thus enters the landfill.  How is that good for the environment?  

Oh no! Don’t say this outloud, you’ll tempt them to bring back 128GB!

I think there’s no way this kind of post doesn’t drift off topic like this, but the story seems like this is an interesting approach by Tim Cook, who recognizes the pressure to participate in this action competitively, but also recognizes the tension with corporate governance, and appears to be trying to insulate Apple from inappropriate corporate governance, but also recognize his personal role in having the connections in relationships to look out for Apple’s best interest. Now, of course there are many underlying currents, tributaries, rapids, and waterfalls, but I think the real story is whether this demonstrates character of corporate leadership and whether this is the right way to go about an exercise like this. Personally I am unbuckled at what’s being brought in here for inauguration sponsorship and envious that I can’t get this type of corporate sponsorship for our low income community Non-profit work. But once again a tangent.