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I think Apple and Microsoft are both prepping us for a future in which our computers are, mostly, mere terminals for their host of cloud services, rather than p
by bitwize 2y ago
I think Apple and Microsoft are both prepping us for a future in which our computers are, mostly, mere terminals for their host of cloud services, rather than personal computing devices. This may be a test run/demonstration of whether and how a highly interactive, compute-intensive task like video editing can be performed under such a paradigm.
- crooked-v 2y agoIf anything Apple's gone in exactly the opposite direction, given how much effort they've put into having photo processing, Siri, etc happen locally on specialized hardware. Even stuff like their autocomplete is now using invisible-to-the-end-user LLMs running on local hardware.