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Break up the leech!

It used to be that the comments on AI used to be mostly relevant, civil-ish, and reasonably informative. But now .. honestly I give up. Comments have become, on the whole, garbage. I’m out.

NYC362 said:

As the rather secretive CEO of a company that values its secrets more than anything else, I find it really hard to believe that Tim Cook called a person known for blabbering about anything and everything to complain about the EU.

If anyone here has ever worked for Apple, you'll know exactly how I feel.  It just isn't in the Apple DNA for something like this to have happened.

If it did, it is shocking.  

Yeah, that’s what my take was, also. But there’s a little part of me that wonders if Cook may have just mentioned it in passing … nothing specific other than its recency. In Trump’s brain, that’s as good as asking for a hit on the European president 

Nice. Have to keep an eye on this.

Apple’s apps are still pretty basic. If I had to guess, I’d say Passwords is more about getting people who won’t pay for a third-party product to have better habits and ultimately get them using Passkeys instead of passwords. Safer for everyone.

I’ve used or do use almost all of these apps, and none of Apple’s offerings are as feature rich. Shout out to the developers of Calcbot, and their wonderful conversion features. Also, 100% disagree with Mr. Grumpypants - 1Password 8.x is great, despite its Electron underpinnings. (And I detest most of those flaky apps. Slack, I’m looking at you.) Ditto for Grammarly — indispensable in so many ways. Got my teams all writing up material with clarity and the approved style. And I can’t see anyone but a casual hiker using the Maps feature. All Trails is simply better for anyone hiking on the regular (although this is a community that likes to put away electronics while doing their thing).

In short, I can’t see anyone losing customers here. I do see Apple’s offerings as gateways to introducing people to these types of software solutions.

And for the love of all that’s holy, once again, stop being so lazy and un-nuanced. Come up with a better term.

PS - Additional shout out to Vysor, which allows remote UI control of mobile devices. Many of you have missed that Apple’s new iPhone on the desktop, and the older ‘’push to jump over” to an iPad with Continuity replicates some of that feature set (although arguably, NeXT had similar features with DisplayPostscript).

roake said:

globby said:

gatorguy said:

What would Apple say if you asked them?

Apple made a nearly identical rights claim change in its Terms of Service at the end of March, worded in much the same way but far more vaguely. But no one noticed. Perhaps that's why Apple has never clarified what it means, either. My guess is the same as Adobe's, but like them, Apple ( and everyone else) needs to be clearer on it.

"Except to the extent prohibited by law, you hereby grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, nonexclusive license to use the materials you submit within the Services and related marketing as well as to use the materials you submit for Apple internal purposes. Apple may monitor and decide to remove or edit any submitted material, including via automated content filters and/or human review." 

There are too many questions surrounding how our data is being used across all LLM training and delivered AI services. Companies try to avoid discussing it unless the questions become too public. For Adobe they did.

Er ... except that the context for those Apple terms is totally different: "Our Services may allow you to submit or post materials such as comments, ratings and reviews, pictures, videos, and podcasts (including associated metadata and artwork)." That's totally different from what we thought Adobe was claiming.

Anyone can read it here in context: 

K. YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO OUR SERVICES

Our Services may allow you to submit or post materials such as comments, ratings and reviews, pictures, videos, and podcasts (including associated metadata and artwork). Your use of such features must comply with the Submissions Guidelines below, which may be updated from time to time, and if we become aware of materials that violate our Submission Guidelines we will remove them. If you see materials that do not comply with the Submissions Guidelines, including any offensive, abusive, or illegal content, please let us know at reportaproblem.apple.com or by contacting Apple Support. Except to the extent prohibited by law, you hereby grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, nonexclusive license to use the materials you submit within the Services and related marketing as well as to use the materials you submit for Apple internal purposes. Apple may monitor and decide to remove or edit any submitted material, including via automated content filters and/or human review. 

GatorGuy would make an excellent CNN reporter.  Enough said.

And here I was thinking a Fox News entertainer, because of the ridiculous levels of whataboutism, deflection, denial, low-key histrionics, lack of substantiating facts, and blatantly manipulating the context. (Also, who the eff unironically uses “Enough said” like it’s some kind of snappy mic-drop? Gag me with a spoon.)

PS - Continually restating false statements after being roundly de-bunked, that was another red flag.