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by bitpush 1y ago
Exactly. This is the part that I dont get about Apple apologists. If one really likes paying 30% extra to Apple for privacy/security (debatable, but whatever) nobody is stopping you. But for every one of those, there are many who might
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by bitpush 1y ago
Maybe because Safari isnt funded by Apple, and would rather pump that money into extracting rent from App Store? The few engineers that Safari has are top-top notch, but they wouldnt let them grow the teams and would much rather drag their
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by bitpush 1y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that Apple is too big to fail/be questioned/be scrutinized, or worse - can do no wrong?
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by bitpush 1y ago
They painted themselves into a corner really. It started with privacy marketing and then they started believing it. Data = radioactive etc etc Siri can't get better without access to copious amounts of data; data apple doesn't hav
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by bitpush 1y ago
Genuine question - who's asking for that? You doing think HN if representative of the larger iPhone user base do you?
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by bitpush 1y ago
Yup, but limited in scope. And occasionally fails spectacularly.
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by bitpush 1y ago
[offtopic] TIL that brave rehosts images from the internet onto brave.com, and crucially serve them universally. That cant be .. legal. If I have an image on my website, that cannot be "redistributed" without permission. https:&#
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by bitpush 1y ago
huh. Isnt that what business deals are supposed to be? Two businesses entering into a business relationship, where both parties get something. OEMs get Google services & operating system, or OEMs are free to use open source project. Are
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by bitpush 1y ago
How did you manage to shift the conversation to Google in a thread about Apple?
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Posted on YouTube
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by bitpush 1y ago
People love to parrot this, yet if you think for a second this isnt true at all in all the many ways. 1. Siri - not the first assistant, absolute garbage. 2. Apple Maps (original) - utter garbage at launch, slightly better today in US. 3. V
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by bitpush 1y ago
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Are you legally prevented from controlling your device The bar isnt whether it is legal or not. You know that no company can create laws, and either you're saying it out of ignorance, or willful ignorance. When Walmart drives away
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by bitpush 1y ago
From the lawsuit > For example, when a user purchases an iPhone, the user is steered to use Apple’s default email product, Apple Mail. It is only through a complex labyrinth of settings that a user can change her default email applicatio
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Buying an iPhone and then demanding that it has to work Buying something used to mean something. If you're still beholden by company rules of a product you _bought_, you have been leasing/renting it. If I buy a house from a b
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by bitpush 1y ago
If tomorrow, Tesla insisted that their cars will only accepted Tesla branded tires, would you be ok with it? Sure it's their car and they can do whatever they want with it, but consumers are losing choices - which is what anti-monopoly
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by bitpush 1y ago
Isnt that how the system is supposed to work, unless you think Apple would be always benevolent? I think HNers make a mistake (and believe Apple's marketing) that Apple always stands for users, cares about design, pushing the boundary,
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by bitpush 1y ago
> We don’t question Apple’s right to act on behalf of authoritarians for the sake of profit, but Apple’s monopoly over iOS app distribution means it can enforce this perverse policy on all app developers, forcing them to also be complici
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by bitpush 1y ago
Apple buying OpenAI would be the end of the facade Apple has built over many years of being privacy & user first. OpenAI is at the state it is in, because of massive amount of data is hoovers from the internet. Apple is culturally not s
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Language models are commodities and the weights are free That's like saying chips are a commodity. You can buy from Intel, or AMD. Why bother making something yourself. And yet, Apple has proven that unless you vertically integrat
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Whatever you think about Apple’s in-your-face advertising tactics, it seems to be paying off. Yup. Intrusive ads are bad, until their god does it.
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Apple will lose itself the day it chases profits with Ads That shipped sailed many years back. Apple runs a highly successful ad network. It is just that most people are slowly starting to realize the true colors of the company.
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by bitpush 1y ago
This is a premium feature. If you're not using Premium, you wont see it.
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by bitpush 1y ago
> Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, to get users to believe that it’s private. That Apple can be trusted in ways t
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by bitpush 1y ago
Such a strange position to take indeed. I dont see people clamoring behind Apple when they do proprietary things - iMessage protocol, Bluetooth improvements for Airpods, private APIs in Apple Watch. Apple's "life saving" Appl
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by bitpush 1y ago
How do we know if one or both models are not optimizing for this very same prompt?
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by bitpush 1y ago
This has been discussed so many many times before on this very same site. Any reason why you're sharing this today?
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by bitpush 1y ago
The fact that they shipped it shows they don't know what they were doing, private or not.
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by bitpush 1y ago
Precisely. Remember how they waited for AR/VR space to settle and then swept the end user market? Or the smash hit Homepods. Or Siri :)
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by bitpush 1y ago
The same edge Apple had summarizing notifications so poorly that they had to turn it off? https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/11/apple-intelligence-not...

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