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Apple turns to Anthropic to speed up coding & fix buggy tools
Apple never got around to fix the XCode mess.digitol said:Xcode has been a horrible experience since day one. Provisioning is certain hell and full of issues. Debugger and so many errors it’s a joke. Paying to be a developer is ridiculous, essentially paying to run your own apps and being charged for a totally abandoned shotty experience is and has been pure hell. Oh but wait you can get a free dev account…. Sure good luck with that enjoy provisioning hell every so months. Lame & broken & you pay money for it! No thanks.
XCode is so bad there used to be a blog called "XCode said" which was just making fun of absurd XCode errors and behaviors.
Look at your project settings and you see a thousand avon b7 said:
Apple was (and still is) behind.foregoneconclusion said:LLM programs are relatively easy to develop. That's why there are so many different companies that offer their own LLM programs. It's really the training model that's important. The LLM is worthless without it. And the training model is mainly a euphemism for a gargantuan database. That gargantuan database can either be created ethically (verified sources with appropriate permissions) or unethically (unverified sources without permission).
So all the talk about Apple being "behind" in LLM based AI is mostly blather since the LLM part is largely inconsequential versus the database being used and whether it's legal.
We need to accept that. There is enough evidence of that now.
They didn't have anything when Gen AI came to market. They deliberately avoided any mention of 'AI' at the WWDC when people were expecting to hear about it and deliberately chose to refer to ML instead. The following year (and now unable to avoid the term due to all the progress made by Gen AI) we got 'Apple Intelligence' but zero of that shipped on the 2024 AI iPhone. It was to come out over the release cycle of iOS.
Almost all previous phones were not elegible for Apple Intelligence (another HUGE sign that AI of this kind just wasn't on the front burner until it was far too late). Then we got news of the delay to the enhanced Siri and then news of the AI executive shakeup. Then we got rumours of Apple trying to create its own AI training hardware but together with reports saying it was buying Nvidia hardware. If they truly weren't behind they would have had at least a plan to have everything in place long before now.
Nothing in all of this points to Apple being even remotely catching up with the almost daily upgrades to swatches of LLMs and Tiny LLMs.
No doubt it is desperately doing all it can but that doesn't mean it's not behind.
LLMs are anything but inconsequential as without them the data they feed off is just that - data.
Yes. There are ongoing debates and even challenges as to the ethical and legal aspects and they may prove consequential down the line but that has nothing to do with what is (and has been) available today. The current state of play.
This year's WWDC is going to be interesting for many reasons and AI is going to be one of them.
I'm not a fan of Gruber but he did ruffle some feathers and point out some uncomfortable Apple Intelligence truths.
I use Perplexity Pro which has proven to be ultra reliable for my needs. If Siri ever reaches that level it would be a true milestone.
Apple being behind in AI is not really the big problem - check out xAI and how fast they came from 0 to competing with the best models for the crown!
It took them less than a year!
Apple doesn't have anyone like Elon who has the vision, attracts the people, and executes - Apple is run by a bunch of pensioners whose only reason for still being there is they made a promise to their friend Steve Jobs on his deathbed.
It worked for a while but Apple desperately needs to find its vision - and dump the vision Pro, one of the most laughable, most expensive, C-suite nonsense ideas I've ever seen. The amount of research that has gone into this totally useless thing is crazy - talent that could be used to make a car, or figure out AI, things that actually matter. They have no plan.
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Apple Product identifiers have leaked every Mac release through 2026
I was going to upgrade my 16" MBP M1 Pro to the latest M4 but really it's more like a vanity upgrade.quakerotis said:the best device is the one you own.
When you are in the market, you buy the most current offering because that's what is offered.
A bad worker blames the toolIn my workflow Rust and XCode (iOS app building) max out the CPU but realistically I would look at a 2x improvement with an M4 Pro at best.
For all other tasks, there would be no difference at all - they're bottlenecked by network speed.
I'd get a little more battery life, probably.
I don't game. Nobody seems to be using the neural network cores (bit of a shame...). I definitely have all Apple AI features turned off since it's all nonsense and non-working.So I would pay $4,000 for a brand new ... or get a 15" M4 Air with almost the same performance I already have for $2,000...Want yes, need absolutely not. The MBP - knock on wood - is built like a tank. I had to replace 1 key cap - my oily fingers always manage to get the key caps damaged, the A key rubs off first.
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Trump's 25% smartphone tariff starts just in time for the iPhone 17
Countries making iPhones
- India
- Vietnam
- Brazil
Soon: Indonesia - same thing they said you can't sell iPhones here if you don't make any here. Apple agreed to invest $1Bn.
But... the USA can't do it? So India can do it. Vietnam can do it. Brazil (high tech wonderland lol) can make iPhones.
Surely it's going to be a huge hassle to set up iPhone production in the USA, when nothing's been made here for decades. But in the long run, it will be a lot better for Apple. Apple also has north of 200Bn in cash stashed away, so they can afford it many times over to invest in plants here.
As it is, Apple is extremely reliant on China. China can basically do whatever it wants with Apple, and Apple has to say yes. Not a good position to be n.
Labor costs won't be an issue since plants can be 100% automated - as Xiaomi has shown.
SpaceX makes Starlink devices in Texas, Tesla cars in Californa and Texas, plus a giant automated gigafactory for batteries in Nevada. So yeah, absolutely, high tech can be made in the USA. I am not saying it's easy, or a piece of cake, but it can be done. Maybe Tim should ask Elon for advice...
PS: Xiaomi was copying Tesla for factory automation... Tesla factories are the most modern in the world. Elon invested a lot of time and energy in making them efficient to the point where they're better than anyone else's factories.
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Trump Mobile's made-in-US iPhone 17 competitor is really made in China
Trump Mobile X account doesn't mention anything about hardware.
First post is "bring your own phone"
Maybe they gave up on that plan - it would look pretty bad to have a cheap Chinese made phone the "US made" flagship lol.
As for creating your own manufacturing pipeline, which Apple apparently can't do - Space X did it. Apple could if they had to, but they just don't want to; it's a lot of work, no doubt, and they'd leave profits on the table also... I am not saying it's easy. But if SpaceX can do it to make heat shield tiles then so can Apple, a $3Tn company.Apple has enough money on hands to build 10 factories making everything going into the iPhone, except screens chips. Heck they have enough to build a chip factory too.
They just don't want to. It would cost them profits for years.
