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  • Apple TV+ is about art more than iPhone sales says Tim Cook

    blastdoorblastdoor
    Of course it’s not about selling more iPhones. It’s about selling more Apple One subscriptions.
    hmurchison

  • Liquid Glass is more than skin deep on macOS Tahoe

    blastdoorblastdoor
    On net, I find I typically end up liking these overhauls after gaining some experience with them, and I'm sure this will be the same. 
    williamlondon

  • Apple execs explain Apple's position in the AI race & how it isn't necessarily 'behind'

    blastdoorblastdoor
    Two things can be true at once. Apple’s historical strength as a company has been to pull together existing technologies into a coherent, useful, and elegantly designed product. So it makes sense that they would view an LLM as a technology that they will combine with other technologies to make a great product. Thad’s all well and good. But they are also seriously behind in actually doing that.

    Where is Swift Assist? Why isn’t Siri better? Why is image playground so limited? 

    Meanwhile, ChatGPT isn’t actually just an LLM. I get the distinct impression that people here dismissing it as such haven’t really used it for productive purposes. ChatGPT integrates an LLM with several other technologies behind the scenes to offer a pretty good product. It’s far from perfect — there’s lots of room for improvement. But it’s truly useful, and useful enough that people pay for it (unlike Netscape in its heyday). 
    williamlondonAlex1N

  • Apple execs explain Apple's position in the AI race & how it isn't necessarily 'behind'

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    canukstorm said:
    "In both interviews, Federighi explained that Apple had working versions of the contextual Siri powered by app intents, and in fact, what was shown was actually running. Joz even scoffed at the idea of it being "demo ware," in what seemed to be a pointed comment at Daring Fireball's John Gruber."

    Now we know why Gruber wasn't granted an interview with Apple execs this year.  
    Yup! 

    Maybe for the best. Those interviews were ok but not great. I like Gruber quite a bit as a writer and he’s not bad on a podcast, but he doesn’t come across as well in a live video format. He always seemed a little in over his head. Also, he was in this awkward space of wanting to ask “real” questions but also being a big fan. Nothing wrong with either of those sentiments, but it’s challenging (not impossible, just challenging) to do both at the same time.

    So maybe better to have the real journalists do the interviews and have Gruber do his thing (which I like a fair bit).
    StrangeDaysAlex1N

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

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    randominternetperson said:
    No offense, but are you a developer?  It's a developer conference where developers are introduced to new capabilities introduced in the new OSes.

    What would have been great for developers is if Apple actually had Swift Assist available. If well implemented, that could have made this a very exciting WWDC for everyone, because increasing developer productivity benefits us all. 

    In principle, an AI assistant could make porting games to apple platforms far easier and faster, for example. 

    ChatGPT et al are making real people much more productive in their work. It’s not the gimmick some people want to believe it to be. Certainly it has limits — humans are still valuable. And humans will probably always be valuable. But this is a valuable tool, Apple is behind by a meaningful degree, and that’s a real problem. The fact that it’s a problem Apple can and most likely will be overcome is a reason to have hope but not a reason to claim the problem doesn’t exist. 
    muthuk_vanalingam