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> Same goes for the iPad with AI. What are people going to use it for? I don't think it's necessarily Apple's fault that there haven't turned out to be a whole

> Same goes for the iPad with AI. What are people going to use it for? I don't think it's necessarily Apple's fault that there haven't turned out to be a whole lot of genuinely productive or groundbreaking use cases for generative AI. With regard to your other issues, it sounds like you just don't like Apple's vision. But that's not really relevant to how they make use of generative AI and probably belongs in a broader discussion about Apple. My take on it, in any case, is that if Apple decides you're not an important market segment then you're not an important market for them. That's all there is to it. They may occasionally waver and indicate that e.g. triple-A gaming is coming, etc. etc. But really it's better to count on them not caring much about niche or even popular markets if it interferes with their broader goals. Calling Apple's vision "revolutionary" is not the wording I would use. More like "highly opinionated, well-polished software with hardware that's just a bit ahead of the curve".

talldayo 2y ago
I don't trust Apple's software acumen to be opinionated in a way that puts it ahead of the curve. I got rid of my Mac for this reason - Homebrew and third-party distributors fight against Apple to get their apps to behave the way they want them to between minor updates. On top of that, Apple's first-party offerings haven't proven at all that they can stand on their own. Metal is entirely ignored as a 3D API for serious applications and it's most impressive demos are Japanese gachapon games for iPhone. Their hardware isn't competitive with Nvidia despite their advanced access to TSMC nodes and their software isn't even remotely gunning to replace CUDA or adopt a similar featureset a-la Apple's own (retired) OpenCL. They have given up on anything that doesn't entail a) locking in their users or b) making recurring revenue from services. They spurned Khronos, abandoned cross-platform API support and stopped competing on stats... for what? Why? I think it's fine if you support this on a personal or ideological level because it doesn't bother you. But you also have to admit that the average user won't ever spend more than 5 minutes with AI features because they buy iPads to watch YouTube and porn, not design sports cars and rocket engines. Apple is building features for a market that doesn't exist while entirely neglecting rational uses of their time and development talent. It's absolutely pitiful to see a business as large as Apple fall that far - they deserve everything antitrust regulation has to give.

talldayo 2y ago

I don't trust Apple's software acumen to be opinionated in a way that puts it ahead of the curve. I got rid of my Mac for this reason - Homebrew and third-party distributors fight against Apple to get their apps to behave the way they want them to between minor updates. On top of that, Apple's first-party offerings haven't proven at all that they can stand on their own. Metal is entirely ignored as a 3D API for serious applications and it's most impressive demos are Japanese gachapon games for iPhone. Their hardware isn't competitive with Nvidia despite their advanced access to TSMC nodes and their software isn't even remotely gunning to replace CUDA or adopt a similar featureset a-la Apple's own (retired) OpenCL. They have given up on anything that doesn't entail a) locking in their users or b) making recurring revenue from services. They spurned Khronos, abandoned cross-platform API support and stopped competing on stats... for what? Why? I think it's fine if you support this on a personal or ideological level because it doesn't bother you. But you also have to admit that the average user won't ever spend more than 5 minutes with AI features because they buy iPads to watch YouTube and porn, not design sports cars and rocket engines. Apple is building features for a market that doesn't exist while entirely neglecting rational uses of their time and development talent. It's absolutely pitiful to see a business as large as Apple fall that far - they deserve everything antitrust regulation has to give.