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Exactly. Apple operates at a scale where it's very difficult to deploy this technology for its sexy applications. The tech is simply too broken and flawed at th
by anon373839 9mo ago
Exactly. Apple operates at a scale where it's very difficult to deploy this technology for its sexy applications. The tech is simply too broken and flawed at this point. (Whatever Apple does deploy, you can bet it will be heavily guardrailed.) With ~2.5 billion devices in active use, they can't take the Tesla approach of letting AI drive cars into fire trucks.
- dmix 9mo agoThis is so obvious I'm kind of surprised the author used to be a software engineer at Google (based on his Linkedin). OpenClaw is very much a greenfield idea and there's plenty of startups like Raycast working in this area.
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- ljm 9mo agoI'm not that surprised because of how pervasive the 'move fast and break things' culture is in Silicon Valley, and what is essentially AI accelerationism. You see this reflected all over HN as well, e.g. when Cloudflare goes down and it's a good thing because it gives you a break from the screen. Who cares that it broke? That's just how it is. This is just not how software engineering goes in many other places, particularly where the stakes are much higher and can be life altering, if not threatening.
- wiseowise 9mo agoBeing good at leetcode grinding isn’t the same as being a good product person.
- boringg 9mo agoshots fired!
- fsloth 9mo agoOuch. You could have taken a statistical approach "google is not known for high quality product development and likely therefore does not select candidates for qualities in product-development domain" - I'm talking too much to Gemini, aren't I?
- waffletower 9mo agoiOS 26 is proof that many product managers at Apple need to find another calling. The usability enshittification in that release is severe and embarrassing.
- andrei_says_ 9mo agoOr maybe, while being as good as they are at their jobs, they were forced to follow a broken vision with a non-negotiable release date. And simply chose to keep their jobs.
- waffletower 9mo agoWhich also suggests that they need a new calling
- 9rx 9mo agoIt is obvious if viewed through an Apple lens. It wouldn't be so obvious if viewed through a Google lens. Google doesn't hesitate to throw whatever its got out there to see what sticks; quickly cancelling anything that doesn't work out, even if some users come to love the offering.
- puppymaster 9mo agoRegardless of how Apple will solve this, please just solve it. Siri is borderline useless these days. > Will it rain today? Please unlock your iphone for that > Any new messages from Chris? You will need to unlock your iphone for that > Please play youtube music Playing youtube music... please open youtube music app to do that All settings and permission granted. Utterly painful.
- blks 9mo agoDo you want people being able to command your phone without unblocking? Maybe what you want is to disable phone blocking all together
- eisfresser 9mo agoNot really. Giving the weather forecast or playing music seems pretty low risk to me.
- schnable 9mo agoSiri doesnt make me unlock the phone to give a weather report.
- anhner 9mo agoOh no, what if they put on Christmas music playlist in February? the horror! There should exist something between "don't allow anything without unlocking phone first" and "leave the phone unlocked for anyone to access", like "allow certain voice commands to be available to anyone even with phone locked"
- Anelya 9mo agoCan it not recognize my voice? I had to record the pronunciation of 100 words when I setup my new iPhone - isn’t there a voice signature pattern that could be the key to unlock?
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