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

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

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

    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
  • Apple's folding iPad or MacBook: What to expect, and when it will ship

    The days of Apple’s innovative and affordable products are behind us. 
    williamlondonPemadanoxwatto_cobra
  • The future of internet liability is uncertain as congress targets Section 230

    "a form of extortion." 

    "hostage taking."

    Has big tech not taken the world and our attention hostage? Do they not extort us for every penny they can?

    hypocrisy is not a good look. 
    DAalsethronn13485watto_cobra