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I don’t follow your second to last paragraph. It’s called Apple Intelligence. If you want to use something else do so but don’t expect Apple to build its own
by skhunted 2y ago
I don’t follow your second to last paragraph. It’s called Apple Intelligence. If you want to use something else do so but don’t expect Apple to build its own product and let you use whatever you want for it. Clearly the goal for Apple is to eventually use its own models and be an entirely in house product.
- talldayo 2y ago> Clearly the goal for Apple is to eventually use its own models and be an entirely in house product. If that turns out anything like Siri, then surely you would understand why people want a bring-your-own-model framework.
- skhunted 2y agoTheir desires may or may not be rational in this but clearly Apple isn’t going to allow it. They have a history of doing their own thing.
- talldayo 2y agoTheir desires are expressly illegal, in many countries. We're past the whole antitrust stuff now, we are in a post-FAANG society and Apple doesn't just get away with that stuff for free anymore. I'm not crazy for expecting competition. This is also coincidentally the reason I got rid of my Apple products. The experience fucking sucks! The only way things get better is if you buy more hardware, which probably makes the average mall-addicted American smile but makes me want to vomit. Everything is upsell, and not just upsell where you can improve the experience. No, you have to buy Apple's solution because every third-party is wrong and can't be trusted. They will gimp anyone that does not compensate them handsomely and rob the only people brave enough to offer their users an improved experience. The devil takes notes during Tim Cook's business meetings. They deserve everything coming to them, and they know it too. So try it. Watch them go along, "doing their own thing", and then watch them come back limping and bruised after the FTC gives them a worse beating than Microsoft got in the 90s. We know why Apple is mad about this, it doesn't matter. They can go quietly or we can make this a long, protracted process. Microsoft got away lucky when you think about it, still all in one piece.
- skhunted 2y agoSure. I’m agnostic in all this but I do think Apple prefers to build their own AI and worry about anti-trust later.
- talldayo 2y agoHow can you "worry about anti-trust later" when you are under active anticompetitive inquiry from three of your largest markets?
- kaba0 2y agoCan you replace the camera firmware in any of your devices? That’s the same category, I don’t think laws tell you anything about that.
- seec 2y agoThe funniest thing about current Apple is that they don't just upsell you on more hardware (that would be relatively fine) but they also hardcore upsell you on their "services" that are too often lackluster and fucked up in some bizarre way. To the point where they make using their devices without this service upsell and much less desirable experience. It makes the whole point of paying more for better hardware completely moot, because if you going to need to rely on cloud "service" stuff, you might as well get cheaper hardware from the other companies who do that much better than Apple ever did. I like their stuff (well the hardware at least) but I also don't want to buy more stuff from them, it's just not sustainable and they already make too much money anyway.
- doctorpangloss 2y agoI don't comprehend how people are not more angry about how utterly shitty the Apple coerced apps are.
- signatoremo 2y agoWhat is an example of utterly shitty app from Apple and which alternative is miles better?
- chuckadams 2y agoPodcasts. Any other podcast app.
- KerrAvon 2y agoIf it's bad enough that you need to bring your own model, (a) Apple is toast, because this is, to some extent, the future; (b) you're hosed, because you can't optimize for battery life as well as Apple can.
- kdot 2y agoI see the goal as a setup to pit LLM providers against each other to pay 10B a year to be the 2nd tap default.
- skhunted 2y agoOh, yeah that is a possibility. I think though long term they are going to have Siri be a search engine that actually works in the way Google once did.