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iOSDevSWE said:

The article lacks fact checking and details like when were the tests conducted either OpenAIs models and which model was used. When I perform the request I get the following answer from chatGPT 4o:

Question: ” Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday. Of the kiwis picked on Sunday, five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?”

Answer: “ Let’s break this down:

• On Friday, Oliver picks 44 kiwis.

• On Saturday, he picks 58 kiwis.

• On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, so he picks  44 \times 2 = 88  kiwis.

The total number of kiwis he picks is:

44 \text{ (Friday)} + 58 \text{ (Saturday)} + 88 \text{ (Sunday)} = 190 \text{ kiwis.}

So, Oliver has 190 kiwis in total. The fact that five of the kiwis picked on Sunday are smaller doesn’t affect the total number.”

Perfect answer!

The wrong answer comes from o1-mini, not from GPT-4o. No mention of GPT-4o in the article.

The most important measure is omitted in the article: Disable "Open safe flies after downloading" option in Safari. There is no "safe file" on the Internet. This is Apple's fault to maintain this expression and to keep that option enabled, even restoring it after every update. Even experienced Mac users may not always prevent the automatic download of a malicious .dmg or .pkg file. Such downloads occur during javascript redirects triggered by malicious ads. So the Downloads folder must be checked frequently and any unknown file must be trashed or quarantined.

Edit: you don't even need to click the malicious ad. Just the display of it may trigger the automatic download.

rob53 said:

neoncat said:

JWSC said:

Does this indicate Adobe’s decline in relevance?  Years ago I was all in on Adobe.  But they priced themselves out of the non-commercial market and I dropped them like a hot potato.

What a weird take. But I get it, you just wanted to old-man-at-clouds about Adobe's subscription pricing. Go ahead and review every other structured drawing program on the Mac or iOS. Guess what file format they all use—some of them wrapped in their own file package, but they're all EPS at the core. It's *the* mathematical model for object drawing.

More I'd say it indicates Preview.app's decline in relevance. 

I wouldn't say drawing programs on macOS use EPS at its core but every printer uses Postscript as its print file. PDF files are simply a combination of images and Postscript codes. Does this mean that Ventura Preview doesn't support the opening of PDF files? There has to be some reason Apple isn't talking about this limitation. The support file only says what's in the AI article. I have to wonder if you simply change the extension of a Postscript file to .pdf and see if it opens. This has nothing to do with any perceived Adobe decline, they will be around forever because PDF is a standard and Adobe wrote it. The non-commercial market isn't what keeps major applications around, it's the commercial market.

PDF is based on PostScript but a PDF file is different from .ps file. A .ps file is printer-dependent, PDF is printer-independent. Since .ps is generated by the printer driver, it includes all the setup environment specific to the printer and it will fail on another printer. Preview is PDF, it cannot be otherwise because Quartz, the very graphic core of macOS, is based on PDF. So PDF is intrinsic to macOS and it will remain so until another graphic model replaces Quartz.

A Touch UI based macOS is not a dream, but a possibility. So Apple’a port of macOS to the iPad would be a great and respectable endeavor that every Mac enthousiast would embrace. I can well imagine a Finder lying behind this on-screen keyboard, showing a folder name touch-selected, ready to be replaced by what I type on my iPad keyboard. Actually a touch-selection can well replace a mouse-selection in terms of accuracy. The problem was the multi-tasking performance compromise introduced by multiple overlapping windows, but macOS has already resolved this issue by full-screen windows and the swipe gesture to navigate between them. That feature is just waiting for an iPad powerful enough to handle Mac-like true multitasking, the power of M2 makes this problem obsolete. Wouldn’t a tablet Mac kill the iPad? Well, not necessarily. The iPad  may continue to survive with the A series, and the tablet Mac may thrive on the M series, iPadOS and macOS being their respective OS. 

Apple is being pushed to higher and higher end by Chinese companies. This is a deliberate tactic and Apple may need to develop a substantial maneuver to regain the entry level market and even the mid-range. One day it will find itself at the peak of performance and state-of-the-art production as the sole owner of the niche market corner into which it painted itself.