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  • Big-name publishers are refusing to let Apple Intelligence train on data

    iadlibiadlib
    This is laughable, given that Facebook and Instagram trained their AI models without explicit permission from content creators.
    watto_cobrawilliamlondonAlex1N

  • Meta stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text

    iadlibiadlib
    This is the moronic company run by an idiotic billionaire who is unwilling to pay for consumer art and content to train their stupid AI because he doesn’t deem it valuable enough. So why should your passwords be encrypted? The government needs to leave Apple alone and investigate meta. There really needs to be much more oversight into social media companies and what they are allowed to do with our data. We need a European level of control over our personal data and these companies should automatically have to pay the end user damages when they inevitably fail. Maybe the CEO even needs to face jail time. Couldn’t imagine Zuck in orange??
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • New M4 MacBook Air is great, but MacBook Pro still commands Apple's laptop business

    iadlibiadlib
    They need to add more color options. I'm sick of this costco-esque color palette. Macbook Air Special Edition Product (RED) would be a hot item. Be great if they added at least HDMI to the unit, too. 
    williamlondondewmewatto_cobra

  • If you were underwhelmed by WWDC 2025, you're not alone

    iadlibiadlib
    Two things 

    1 - there’s mention of iPadOS 27 but they announced 26. Probs a typo. 

    2 - I feel like so much focus has gone into apple silicon and making sure the yearly boring iterative hardware updates happen, that the design (hardware AND software) has really struggled to find its footing on important product lines in any meaningful way that pushes forward. 

    Remember that Tim is an efficiencies guy. Not a big idea design guy. That he couldn’t meet Jony Ive halfway and it’s the marriage of business and creative that makes magic happen especially for anything Steve Jobs touched. 

    Apple products used to be iconic and unique even when ubiquitous. From the advertising to the package to the products themselves. They were cool. We are now in some weird boring safe space limbo where mentions of curved glass and a GUI refresh are the bleeding edge. Except they’re not and never have been. 

    Remember the creed that should run Apple but capitalism is an infection that makes us forget:
    Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.


    williamlondon

  • US iPhone production's main challenge is a century of big business labor decisions

    iadlibiadlib
    Dan Ives told CNN that it would take about $30 billion and three years for Apple to move its global supply chain back to American soil.
    But with what money is it expected to do this — the money from Services? That seems highly unlikely.


    UMM Apple has 162 billion in cash and cash equivalent assets. Had they not spent so much money on stock buy backs they’d have more. They can financially make this move happen. Whether it’s lucrative. That’s a different story. 

    williamlondondewmejibwatto_cobra

  • Nothing CEO takes shots at Apple, ludicrously says that apps are going away

    iadlibiadlib
    Makes sense. Apple tried to do this with web apps before Apple got greedy for that 30% app store cut. 

    Think about it: a future OS on a mobile device is really only serving as an end client for accessing AI.

    You tell the phone what you want to do, and the AI will generate the appropriate "app" on demand.

    Think about it, why the hell would you bother coding individual apps vs making AI the omni-app?

    Do I want this future. NO. Not because I'm afraid of AI. Hey Siri play "I'm Afraid of Americans" by David Bowie.

    I think humanity as a whole is entirely too dumb for AI to consider us a threat. When/if it becomes conscious.

    But this is the future of all popular computing. Why? See the above sentence about humanity being dumb.
    williamlondonBart Ywatto_cobra